It appears I have not done any Teknologia work in the past two weeks. Not true! Last week I gathered content at two locations: The K-12 Groton Art Show (not pictured here yet), and at an Artist Studio in Lansing (Patty Brown). I just spent six hours putting together the Studio Tour in Thing Link. This has been my most involved project to date! I included multiple theta images (linked into each other), video clips, an audio interview, web links, and still images. I think I exhausted every kind of media possible, other than a 360 video.
What I learned is this needed a lot of prep and skill level. First, I used Adobe Audition to edit the audio interview. I also cheated and used iMovie (instead of Adobe Premier) because I knew iMovie would do what I needed faster (rotate a video and make both videos smaller in size). I also had to edit a million photographs in Adobe Photoshop, mostly because I forgot that ThingLink hates vertical images! I had to either rotate images in Photoshop, or extend the canvas size and insert two verticals into one image, making it "horizontal" in length. I also worked between a Microsoft Surface tablet and my MacBook. My content is all over the place. My files started on my personal iPhone, then I moved them to Google Drive, and then downloaded them to my desktop so I could edit the content. Then I had to upload all of it to ThingLink before I could embed it. I wish ThingLink and Google were connected. I know Google has the poly tour creator but it lacks in it's features compared to ThingLink. Without further ado, here is my project!
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Not being able to attend Thursday evening work nights, I feel like I am missing quite a bit of the content from Teknologia. I do read the emails and try to keep up, but I wish the work days would be varied, since Thursdays generally do not work with my schedule.
Anyway, I saw these questions on the blog and am responding to them now: What have you collected? Media (Sounds, videos, photos, creations are vital to an ePortfolio. Put them or link them in!) I have collected mainly 360 photographs, videos, and still photographs. I have not yet played too much with sound, but will in a project I have planned. Ideas What new ideas do you have? I am trying to arrange a studio visit with a local artist. I want to create a virtual tour of her studio, including sound files (me interviewing her), 360 photograph of her studio with still images/videos embedded, and web links to her inspirational sources. Questions What questions fuel your learning? How can I make this a reality for my students? Equipment, lessons, authenticity... Understandings What knowledge and/or skill do you have now? I am fully capable of gathering content and creating a tour in Thing Link. I have also created one tour in Google Tour Creator. I know these projects work better when coming into them with a plan. Hopes / Aspirations What will you create? Conceptually, I am still very interested in using this technology to create virtual art gallery tours of my student's works, and art within the community.
Just starting to put together a virtual tour of the Elementary Art Show at RC Buckley in Lansing. I used the "Tour Creator" to link to other 360 images, so you can essentially make it through the whole show spread throughout the building. I also made tour links in the reverse direction so you can go backwards and forwards in the show.
I did find (and am annoyed) that only horizontal photographs work. I will have to creatively edit my vertical photographs in Photoshop in order to be able to upload them properly to Thing Link. Overall, I am still happiest with Thing Link in terms of creating tours and adding content. Ken Welgoss classroom visitI went to Moravia High School yesterday with some other Teknologia participants to visit Ken Welgoss in his teaching space. The room recently was renovated to include a permanent recording studio (two walls making a corner painted green, a step up stage, lights, teleprompter, and video cameras). There were four studio tables as well, and five large Apple computers. Next to the teacher desk, there was a standing cart that had DSLR cameras and 10 brand new Mac Books.
Ken has been teaching his Video Production course for 8 years now and has built up this great collection of technology items over the years. He shared with us a list of the equipment he has in the space. Ken teaches high school art, so his video course is being offered as an art elective. Students can take it more than once if they want. The other courses Ken teaches are yearbook, digital photography, computer graphics, and AP Art. His room connects to the MS/HS art room, but he also has portfolio and supply storage in his room. The broadcast his students create is a news story about what is happening in the district. This year they found a way to have a Blue Devil Broadcast at each level (elementary and middle school). It is the art teachers in the district who are responsible for the broadcast at all levels. It was great to see how passionate Ken is about this program and what it does for the students. He even has a wall of fame, tracking students who have used these skills in their careers after high school.
We have an unused area in the high school that we are transforming into a school gallery. I used the theta360 camera on a tripod with the self-time to take shots of the space when it was empty. I then took still images and edited the images in Photoshop, adding extra information to what we envision for the gallery space.
Still working on it, but am excited about how this technology allows for planning a proposal! |
Artist & EducatorI have been teaching art for over 20 years at the elementary and secondary levels. I am currently instructing high school students in courses such as Studio Art, Digital Art, Advanced Drawing and Painting, and AP Studio Art. For four summers, I also instructed a master's level course at Ithaca College on Integrating Art into the Elementary Classroom. I am also finishing my MFA in Visual Art with an anticipated graduation date of July 31st, 2019. In my own work, I am investigating themes related to perseverance and resilience. -Jessica Stratton Archives
May 2020
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