Collaboration Canvas

I selected Amanda S’s Unit Plan on Bullying to remix. I saw her canvas, and it reminded me of my claymation unit question: “How could you overcome your greatest fear?” For some students who are bullied, that is their greatest fear. It hurts to hear when students are bullied every day, and live in fear of what is going to happen to them in school. I thought this would be an excellent collaborative unit plan. In the new plan I remixed, the students would be working together to create a short 1-2 minute claymation video on how they would stop someone, or themselves, from being bullied. I

In my case, the original canvas would not come up in the remixed canvas, so I added a text widget with the link to it. I referenced most of the major points in Amanda’s unit description, and added my part. My question related more to my art project, but is very useful for the language arts part as well. With the photo gallery, I added examples of claymation characters for the students to reference when making their own. I looked for a claymation video where someone was being bullied and the protagonist resolved the conflict, but I did not find any video like this. I did find a video about students who created an anti bully video in their media arts class, which seemed appropriate for this remixed unit. I also added more resources for students on things that they can do to stop bullying.

Link to collaborated canvas: http://www.play.annenberginnovationlab.org/play2.0/challenge.php?idChallenge=2568&mode=edit#network6

Seeing Artwork in a 360 Degree View

This post may not seem like anything special to the average person. However to me, and I hope all of the other art education majors, this is a fantastic tool for teaching art history. I stumbled upon this site a couple weeks ago. It is a 360 degree view of inside the Sistine Chapel. You can see everything! It is simple to navigate and crystal clear once it loads. You can also zoom in extremely close. You can probably see more on this website than standing in the Sistine Chapel itself. There are advantages to having a site like this one when teaching Italian Renaissance Art.

For obvious reasons, it is important to show students artwork in art history. Looking at artwork from all the time periods gives different artists and movements in history an image; a style. When looking at a painting off of a power point, it is easy to explain everything going on in the piece because it is all there on one plane, Artwork on the larger scale, such as sculptures and buildings are difficult to explain in a classroom. The photos of that kind of artwork only have one perspective on pieces with endless view points. To have a site like this one to access the entire Sistine Chapel is wonderful. It is like taking a class on field trip to inside that room, which is rather engaging.

In general, the idea of a 360 degree view would be ideal for all three dimensional art pieces. Since we have this technology, it is more popular to find this technique. I have seen it on several web sources, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art. I feel that this is a huge step forward. Rather than showing students these giant art pieces in disconnected sections (even some sections missing), show them the entire space. That way they are seeing everything that makes up the artwork. Not only that, but they will better understand the lesson being taught.

Link to Sistine Chapel: http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html