Laker Educational Foundation Grant Recipient

This Fall, I was honored to apply for and receive a Grant for the Art Department from the Laker Educational Foundation.  We were able to purchase equipment that is going to be used for a variety of purposes.

Students have already used some of the equipment to photograph their artwork and upload it to their laptops.  They learned how to edit their work and then create Digital Portfolios and iMovies. In the iMovie, they had to include video and audio reflections about their work.  Students placed the iMovies in their Digital Portfolios and shared them during Student Led Conferences.

Student service workers have also used the equipment to photograph the work of the younger students.  The artwork of the K-5 students is slowly being uploaded their Artsonia.com portfolio pages. Middle School students will be submitting a portfolio of their photographed work that will also be uploaded to their Artsonia.com portfolio pages.

Our next step is to start using the Green Screen, which we are slowing mastering by trial and error, to create videos about artwork.  While in front of the Green Screen, students will film a video about one of their favorite works of art. Then, in iMovie, they will drop the video over the top of their favorite work of art.  The work of art will become the wall they are standing in front of.  Videos will be posted later.

Thank you, Laker Educational Foundation.  Your Grant is changing the way we are able to share the works we create in the Art room.  It has been a wonderful way to infuse technology in the Arts.