Fine+Arts-Visual+Arts

= Subject: Fine Arts- Visual Arts =

Ohio Academic Content Standard: Fine Arts-Visual Arts
Students understand the impact of visual art on the history, culture and society from which it emanates. They understand the cultural, social and political forces that, in turn, shape visual art communication and expression. Students identify the significant contributions of visual artists to cultural heritage. They analyze the historical, cultural, social and political contexts that influence the function and role of visual art in the lives of people. **Benchmark B: Identify art forms, visual ideas and images and describe how they are influenced by time and culture. Grade 4:** 2. Compare and contrast art forms from different cultures and their own cultures.
 * Historical, Cultural and Social Contexts:**

Technologies Incorporated in this Lesson:

 * Digital camera
 * Internet
 * submitting work to share
 * viewing work from students from other schools
 * communicating with project facilitator
 * Windows Moviemaker software
 * Audacity: software for audio recording and editing.
 * Microsoft PowerPoint software
 * Computers
 * Microphone



Classroom and Activity Description:
Technology Day for art students will be the culminating end to a project that will span over several weeks focused on the culture of their city. The entire project’s procedure is listed below, but only steps 7 through 10 will be completed on the actual Technology Day. Two classrooms will be used during this project; the art classroom, which includes three computers along with a variety of arts and crafts materials, and the computer lab, which includes a full classroom set of internet-accessible computers.

//Share Your City Project Procedure:// 1. Students will be introduced to the project and told that they will be working on creating artwork inspired by their city. This artwork will then be shared online with students in other cities. At the end of the project, they will get to view their own submissions and the work of other students on a collaborative website. 2. Students will brainstorm favorite places and memories of their city and neighborhoods. 3. Students will work individually or in small groups to create city-inspired artwork. 4. Students will use a digital camera to photograph their work and then upload the photo to the computer. 5. Photos will be imported into PowerPoint and placed on slides. This will allow students to add a caption explaining their artwork; what it is, how it was created, and why it is meaningful to them. 6. The teacher will then submit these files to the ‘Share Your City’ facilitator via e-mail. 7. Using the Audacity audio recording software and a microphone connected to the computer, students will record themselves reading their captions. 8. The teacher will save the PowerPoint Slides as JPEG files and import them, along with the audio files, into the Windows Moviemaker software. 9. Using the Moviemaker software, the teacher will allow students to choose the transitions between slides. 10. The resulting movie file will be uploaded to the class/school website for peers, families and community to view, along with a link to the ‘Share Your City’ collaborative website.

Tried and True or New and Innovative?
This use of technology for 4th grade is new and innovative because most students will not have had the experience of using these technologies (which are tried and true on their own) in combination with one another. It will be a true integration of technology, not just into the subject area of art, but in the combining of these technologies to work together in functional harmony.

**Supporting Research:**
The internet is a powerful tool, and as Dr. Craig Roland, professor of Art Education at the University of Florida points out, it is important that teachers “make the best use of its capabilities and resources in their curriculum (Roland 1)” There are a lot of different ways this can be achieved as opportunities for “pursuing student-centered, curriculum-based projects on the Internet” are plentiful and easy to find.

For this particular project, the focus is on collaborating and sharing information across cultural contexts. The use of the Internet allows students to be connected to other students around the world. The various software tools used to format and upload items for this project help to work toward this goal as well. Judi Harris, author of //Virtual Architecture; Designing and Directing Curriculum-Based Telecomputing,// refers to the type of learning facilitated in this lesson as “Interpersonal Exchange (Roland1-2)”. Students use the internet and other tools to communicate with each other, share their ideas and work, and develop a better perception of where they fit into the world around them.

// References //