My Art Awareness theme for April is "do it yourself"--we will make on own pictures, put them on the web, and compare and contrast them to what we have already seen.
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Pictures scanned from photographs are shown next to pictures on the web previously shown. Student-written text is also displayed.
The scanned photographs are those from our outdoor ed trip in the Fall. The pictures on the web previously shown are those from our earlier Art Awareness units.
The scanned photographs are the result of regular photographs taken during our Outdoor Ed trip.
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A Note for Teachers
During the "do it yourself" session, each team of students picked a photograph from the school's collection of photographs of their Outdoor Ed trip earlier in the year. The team scanned the chosen photo on the LRC scanner and copied the resulting image file onto a floppy, giving it the name Out.gif. Each team was given significant assistance and coaching during this. They were not expected to master the details themselves but all were highly interested in what was going on, asked questions about the technology, etc.
They then edited the file Art.html residing on the floppy using the Mac SimpleText editor (equivalent to Notepad on the PC). This file had been prepared as a template with a link to one of the remote pictures that had been previously displayed as part of the Art Awareness lessons, a link to the local file Out.gif, and a set of four questions concerning the photograph and the art picture.
The questions were set off with plenty of space around them so that it was clear where the edits containing the answers should be placed--taking advantage of html's ignoring of spaces in text areas.
For more information on what was done, see A Note About Doing Art Awareness via Local Files and Web Resources.
For some feedback from the students, see Art
Awareness Student Goal Setting and Evaluation.
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