Technology Uses in the Fine Arts/PE
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November 7, 2006 |Glenview School District 34 | Technology Inservice Day
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Presented by Lyon School Fine Arts Staff
Mary Tapia - Visual Art
Gary Wendt - Music / Drama
Doree Lattanzio - PE/Life Skills
Diane Abram - PE/Life Skills

This Session presented by the Lyon School Fine Arts Team will explore how technology as a tool can be integrated into the Fine Arts Curriculum. Examples will include web pages, web sites, digital visual art and music portfolios, iTunes, United Streaming, Kid Pix/Kidspiration, and Color It.

1. Digital Fine Arts Portfolio

http://www.glenview34.org/ly/portfolios/faporthome.html
 Philosophy - Literacy is an important part of Fine Arts Education. Attention to detail, aesthetic relationships and expressive content is promoted by developing skills and understanding. Higher order thinking skills and critical thinking is developed as children discuss several solutions to the same problem. Digital Portfolios can assist in the development of both Arts literacy and critical thinking. These portfolios allow the individual to reflect on growth over time. By discussing with students, the process behind the product and why he/she made the decisions they did along the way, you are fostering these essential skills of literacy and critical thinking. For Teachers, these portfolios are an excellent source for assessment.

2. Music/Art Curriculum Integration Project

 The First Graders at Lyon School will be performing songs of identity (Who Am I?) as part of our Holiday Program. Part of this work will include the reading of the book Mysterious Thelonious, a story of how Thelonious Monk had “no wrong notes” on his piano, and that his music was the music of expressive freedom. The text in the book is laid out on a grid of squares, where each syllable bounces up and down inside the various rows. We discover that this grid is a musical scale, and that the text has been placed visually for the notes of Thelonious Monk’s “Mysterioso.” The First Graders will be creating their own “pitch grid” of note patterns that they are learning to read: sol-la-mi, and do-re-mi. They will be improvising and composing music on xylophones. In Visual Art, they will be creating self-portraits. These portraits will be put into a visual pitch grid just like the book using Power Point. At our Holiday Program, the First Graders will play their melodies while the computer is showing the students’ self portraits in a visual display of the notes they are playing. Using Color It! , here is an example of student created self portraits. PowerPoint is being utilized to represent a musical scale.

3. iTunes and the Music Classroom


It’s the Listening Station for our kids’ generation. Thousands of songs in one place for only 99¢ per song. And to top it all off, you save on storage and countertop space! Digital music makes sense in many ways. Here are some points that were included in the Lyon School PTA grant application for an iPod listening lab:

• Assist the teacher to meet the individual needs of each student in a more efficient way. This efficiency is key to the success of a 30-minute class period. By creating digital “playlists,” the iPod listening lab can be programmed to have only the tracks students need to listen to, as opposed to using CDs with extraneous tracks students are often distracted by.
• Stimulate excitement for active listening. Mp3 players are, in simplest terms, what kids are “into” and what many of our students have at home.
• iPods are more cost effective. At 99 cents per song, we are able to purchase songs we need without having to pay $12 for CDs that have tracks we will never listen to. Because of the high amount of usage, many of the CDs Lyon School currently owns are showing signs of age – scratches, broken jewel cases, etc., and need to be replaced.


3. Life Skills

United Streaming is an excellent tool to use as an introduction to a life skill lesson.
Respect Video
Kids hear a lot about respect and the need to show it, but do they understand what it means? With the help of a music video featuring one boy's experiences in learning respect, teaches students about respect for property, rules, differences in opinions and abilities, and for the environment. Calls giving respect the best way to get along with others, shows how it makes everyone feel good

Create an activity in Kidspiration and use as an assessment tool after any lesson is completed.
Healthy Foods example

Internet Activities can reinforce skills as well
Virtual Skeleton Link | Dental Health

4. Physical Education Integration

Kidspiration in PE serves as an assessment tool for skills and concepts taught. Students build graphic organizers by combining pictures, text and spoken words to represent thoughts and information.

Physically Fit example 1 | 2

Student Examples 1|2

PowerPoint Guess the Sport Activity
Students choose a sport and saved an image of that sport on a slide. This slide was duplicated multiple times. On the first slide, several rectangles were created with clues to that sport. When the slides are played, the rectangle clues disappear and the image of the sport appears.

5. Internet / Lyon Website Integration

Art | Music | PE/Life Skills | Additional Fine Arts Links


~From the Illinois Learning Standards for Fine Arts Using Technology~
Use appropriate instruments, electronic equipment, computers and networks to access information, process ideas and communicate results. Computers, synthesizers, film and video provide opportunities to create and record sound composition, animated images, montages and other works. These experiences can lean to careers in areas such as much, graphic arts, video and film productions, scene design and choreography. Technology (CD-ROM, slides, film, video, laserdisks, online services) also can link the classroom with the work of artists and performers.