Art

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Curriculum Standard:
**Sixth Grade Visual Arts Standards: Creative Expression and Communication Benchmark B**: Create two-and three-dimensional original artwork that demonstrates personal visual expression and communication. 3. Explore ways that art making functions as a means of personal identification and expression. 4. Use observations, life experiences and imagination as sources for visual symbols and images. **Benchmark C**: Achieve artistic purpose and communicate intent by selection and use of appropriate media. 4. Apply problem-solving strategies to imporve the creation of artwork. **Benchmark D**: Use current, available technology to refine an idea and create an original, imaginative work of art. 6. Use current, available technology to create original artworks. **Benchmark E**: Identify and explan reasons to support artistic decisions in the creation of art work. 7. Identify and defend artistic decisions using appropriate visual art vocabulary.

Technology:
Flip Camera, Flip Editing software, Microsoft Word, Computer Lab, Presenter & classroom laptop computer

Description:
Students will complete an individual film project reflecting on a life experience. The student will script, storyboard, film, edit, finish and present a 2-3 minute video. The script will be created in Microsoft Word on computers in the computer lab. Storyboards will be drawn free hand using pencil and paper. Filming will be completed on Flip cameras. Editing will be completed on computers in the computer lab using appropriate Flip camera editing software. Presentations will be made in the art classroom through a laptop hooked up to a presenter. After the student presents their video to the class, they will follow up with a short question and answer session regarding technical and artistic questions related to the creation of their project. The entire unit will take 20 class periods to complete (based on 40 minute periods) Video Unit: Introduction: ............. ½ class Scriptwriting: ............ ½ class to teach .................. 2 classes to write Storyboarding: .......... ½ class to teach ................. 1½ - 2 classes to storyboard Film/Frame: .............. 1 class to teach .................. 2-3 classes to film Editing: ..................... 1 class to teach .................. 2 classes to edit Present to class: ................................................. 6 -8 classes Total for unit: ....................................................... 20 classes

Students will be graded on:
 * Choice of dialog related to story
 * Accuracy of storyboard to finished product
 * Artistic quality of film shot
 * Cleanliness of editing
 * Presentation to class –explanation of experience
 * Ability to answer questions using technical and artistic vocabulary learned in class

Supporting Resources:
In her article Penelope Orr finds that students concentration and self-esteem are improved when creating art with technology. After interviewing almost 175 art teachers, therapists and intervention specialists she found that the use of computer software is increasing being used as an interactive way to increase creativeness as a form of art therapy for both children and adults. By using digital media, art teachers are increasingly bringing current technology and trends into the classroom. The author goes on to highlight a study of a disabled class which utilized a unit on video technology. She noted not only the items learned from the lesson itself, but also the lessons fellow schoolmates learned from the exceptional children who scripted, edited and presented their documentary to the student body.

Several authors including the one who writes Tips for K-12 Educators for Helping Students Communicate and Create Using Visual Motion Media, Photography, and Technology, offer many ideas for teacher to bring technology into the classroom. Here it is suggested to assign an “Illustrating Project” which walks the viewer through the steps of something. The project can use still photography, drawings, or video. One student used a series of photographs to document the growth cycle of corn. The author adorned Robert Frost poems with photographs when he went to visit Robert Frost’s birthplace. Once an example is given and imagination is added, the possibilities become endless.

(2009). Tips for K-12 Educators for Helping Students Communicate and Create Using Visual Motion Media, Photography, and Technology. > //TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning//, //53//(1), 14-15. Retrieved from ERIC database November 6, 2009.

Orr, P. (2007). Digital Video Intervention with Special Populations: Looking for Inherent Qualities. //International Journal of Special Education//, > //22//(1), 118-124. http://search.ebscohost.com Retrieved November 5, 2009.

Tried and True or New and Innovative:
This technology is tried and true. Video technology has been around for a while. Although the Flip camera is relatively new, the technology it utilizes is not. Students have all created documents in Microsoft Word and while they probably have not yet recorded, edited, finished or presented original video yet, the technology itself is nothing new.

image from: @http://www.thevarguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/flip_video.jpg