Blog 21: Independent Component 2

LITERAL
(a) I, Catherine Clauss, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.

(b) Mentors Heidi Clauss, and Susan Hodapp along with my Picture This: Using Photography to Teach Science, Math, and Writing article written by Hillary Oswald.

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(d) For this independent component I worked with different groups of students complete a variety of technological/ art integrated based assignments.

Assignment 1: Getting used to the Editing Program. Since we had to complete these assignments in class my mentor Heidi Clauss and I felt it was necessary for students to get used to working with the video editing program they would be using so they could complete the other assignments. So for this assignment they were give various Movie trailers to pick from and were told to edit the sound and picture however they wished. Since the purpose of this assignment was to gain an understanding of how to enter different sound effects and music into the video we did not worry too much about them giving us amazing work we just wanted to be sure that they understood how to do it.

Assignment 2: Digital Photo Poem. For this assignment students were given a poem and were told to find pictures online that would represent the different parts of the poem. Then after finding all the pictures they needed they were required to edit all the pictures together along with a voice over made by the students (which stated the poem).

Assignment 3: Digital Photo Mesopotamia rap. For this assignment students were given a song that explained different things about a history lesson about Mesopotamia, and the students had to edit pictures they found online along with the music.

Assignment 4: Stop Motion Films. PSA For this assignment Students had to create their own stop motion/ claymation films that expressed a problem. So Claymation PSA. This helped students prepare for the second Claymation assignment

Assignment 5: Stop Motion Films. Math Problems For this assignment students worked in groups to create their own stop motion/ claymation films that explained the process to solve a math problem n a way so others could watch and then understand what they did. They started by writing a script then creating their scenes and characters with clay and toys, then they took pictures of their sets and props in different positions. They uploaded all of the pictures on to a computer so they could edit it and added voice over explanations along with the edited clips.

INTERPRETIVE
With the world changing everyday, becoming more advanced and technological based, art integration needs to find ways to change along with them. To be able to create art integrated activities that can also use technology is a step forward for art integration. For this component I was able to not only help put these activities together I was also able to help act them out and see the effects they have on the student that perform them. When asked how they felt about these activities, they said they enjoyed the activities. For the student's who did the Digital Photo Poem assignment they said they that by trying to find pictures that would describe the poems they gained a better understanding of what the poems were saying. And fro the students who completed the stop motion films said that by having to think of a way to explain different math problems to other people through pictures was a difficult task but would probably help them in the long run.

Assignment 1: Getting used to the Editing Program. EXAMPLES

Assignment 2: Digital Photo Poem. EXAMPLES

Assignment 3: Digital Photo Mesopotamia rap. EXAMPLES

Assignment 4: Stop Motion Films. PSA EXAMPLES

Assignment 5: Stop Motion Films. Math Problems EXAMPLES
There are examples for this project but they did not want to transfer. I will post them when  I get the chance. In the meantime please enjoy the other videos.

EXTRA- So this little film was just an extra one done by one of the students during a back to school night at the school. He worked really hard on it and its kinda cute and funny. Just thought you guys would like to see XD.

APPLIED

This independent component helped me with my senior project by giving me evidence to support most of my essential question's answers. Like my first answer, “The best way to use art as a teaching tool in a middle school class is to improve the first and/or second learning experiences by creating fun interactive learning experiences.” For this answer I needed to make sure that fun interactive/ hands on learning experiences could be created and that the student's who participated in these activities thought so as well. (Which they did. They thought they had fun and definitely believed they learned something from these activities)