Silhouettes and Shadow Puppets

Tonight I cut out a shape of an elephant and a mouse. I thought to create a shadow puppet show based on the two shapes. The story would be that the two animals had an unlikely friendship because they are such different sizes. Within the story, the two animals would go on different adventures and meet new animals that they would meet on their adventures. The story and the character shapes would be written and created by my students. The animal shapes could be created very simply for younger students or more complex for students who are older and more experienced. However, I thought this would be a nice lesson for the older students to create and perform for the lower grades. I plan to try this lesson and see what happens.

Ed. Media A

Hello everybody! Here is my first post for my Ed. Media A class. I am very excited about learning even more ways to incorporate technology into my art classroom. Last semester, I learned so much about websites that enable me to post my students' work onto the internet. I think the most visited site I went to was Voicethread. This is a website where you can post images and then comment on the image via text or by recording a voice. This was a wonderful way for me to introduce my students to critiquing. I would post their artwork on the website, have them briefly describe their work, and then record their classmate's critique of the work. Surprisingly, all of the students were very kind to each other in their critiques and it turned out to be a positive (and effective) way to introduce technology into my classroom. I am looking forward to learning so much more this semester!