As with most things this semester, I have been inspired by other teachers and used past lessons to mash up ideas of what can work for students as we learn together, while a part. Every end of the semester, before saying good-bye to students, I like to offer a multiple-part final reflection/exam that asks them to use digital tools to demonstrate and reflect on what they learned this semester.
To finish out this semester, we continued that approach with a digital poster and virtual gallery.
The digital posters ask students to take an artist we studied this semester and select an artist from Scholastic Art Magazine to make a comparison to using either Google Slides or Adobe Spark. In doing so, it gives students the opportunity to look back at what we have learned and then make connections to what they select from the magazine to showcase that learning.
Here are a few student examples:
To finish out this semester, we continued that approach with a digital poster and virtual gallery.
The digital posters ask students to take an artist we studied this semester and select an artist from Scholastic Art Magazine to make a comparison to using either Google Slides or Adobe Spark. In doing so, it gives students the opportunity to look back at what we have learned and then make connections to what they select from the magazine to showcase that learning.
Here are a few student examples:
For the second part of the final, students are asked to create a virtual gallery of between 3-5 of their favorite works using Google Slides. Students then save the slide as a JPEG image and upload it to Artsonia, so we can put it into our final art show for the school year.
Here are some of those results:
Here are some of those results:
Overall, this end of year activity is bittersweet.
I am so proud of how well these students have jumped on creating this work, but so sad we cannot be back in the classroom to do it. I will definitely do this again in the future. And introducing the lesson using the published slideshow below was a GREAT way to share it with my students and get them engaged in the lesson.
You can click through the presentation below to see how to make both items!
I am so proud of how well these students have jumped on creating this work, but so sad we cannot be back in the classroom to do it. I will definitely do this again in the future. And introducing the lesson using the published slideshow below was a GREAT way to share it with my students and get them engaged in the lesson.
You can click through the presentation below to see how to make both items!
As I move forward in this new way of connecting with students, I plan to use this publishing function of Google Slides so that the remote learning lessons are more inviting (rather than just links in a folder).
I even used it to celebrate our students for the end of year art show, too!
I even used it to celebrate our students for the end of year art show, too!
I hope everyone has a safe and great summer!
I will be spending some time in the coming weeks, posting work from my classroom this year onto this space. If you find something useful, use it and give me a shout-out.
I will be spending some time in the coming weeks, posting work from my classroom this year onto this space. If you find something useful, use it and give me a shout-out.
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