Day26-27: Project workshop days

These are two days for you to work independently or in your group to fulfill the research project requirements. If you finish your individual work and group contributions, you may practice your presentation.

Day 25: Research Project Portfolio Requirements

On Friday all groups will give a 3-5 minute presentation on the culture that they have been researching. Discuss with your group what facts, ideas, and descriptions you want to teach the class about your topic. Use the home page of the group wiki to get organized. Decide who will say what, each group member should participate in some way with the presentation.
As individuals, each student is responsible for producing:

• 10 facts about the culture
• 7-10 images that tell us something about the culture
• the URL's of your sources
• a brief description of each image that you chose and what it tells us about the culture
• positive contribution to group work
  

Day 24: HW#3, Purposes of Art, Expression

HW#3
Bring in your initial brainstorm sketches, revised version, and final color composition.

Background information:
Using the letters of our first names we brainstormed to come up with 6 different 2D versions of each letter.
Next we chose the style that we were the most fond of and revised it to make it even more interesting and figure out how we would create each letter in the chosen style.
For homework, create a finished design in color which expresses a particular theme or feeling.

Day 23: Website as flowchart, making links, inserting images

We looked at how websites flow, and a sample graphic organizer for how information flows in a website, and wikispace. This kind of picture is called a " flowchart".
There are two parts to every link, 1-clickable text, or picture, and 2- the URL or new place that the link takes you.
Images can be inserted using the "insert image" button on the document toolbar. Images can be uploaded from a disk or thumb-drive, images can be inserted by entering the URL of the original page you found the picture on.

Day 22: wikispaces vs. wikispaces account

Your wiki account gets you into wikispaces.
Your group wikispace is where you collaborate with your classmates on your group project.
Each group wikispace will contain the main page, commonly known as the "homepage", and links to individual research pages.
The main page is a collection of important facts and dates that your group decides to use in their presentation.
The individual research pages should contain your images and the URL's where you got your information from.

A complete body of work for each group and each person will include:

• facts
• images
• URL's
  

Day 21: More about YOUR group's wiki

Now that you have a wikispaces account, choose one member of your group to create your group's wiki so you can collaborate on your research; eventually it will be in wiki-pedia format. Name your wiki like this: ancientegypt702.wikispaces.com, so we know which class you are from and what your topic is.

The person you select will invite the rest of you to the wikispace with your @wjps account. From the "manage this wiki" link on the left hand side of the page, members or space owners can invite others and do other space managing.
Once you've been invited, check your email inbox, accept the invitation, and each of you start adding your 10 facts together.
Happy wiki-ing!

Day 20:What is a wiki, you ask?

Watch this to find out:
http://blip.tv/file/246821/
then groups go to wikispaces.com and together make one for your groups project.
We will put all of our wiki's together to show what we know as a class!
Start by creating a free account at wikispaces.com; use the same ID and password as your wjps account. In some cases your username will already be in use, just add wjps at the end of your name and it should be OK.

Day 19: Element of Art Value

Dec 6-7, 2007
Today you looked at black, white, and gray objects. Your drawing hopefully show a range of grey values. You can check out this link to learn more:
http://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/study/g_value.html

Day 16-17: Internet research

We have to make sure that we aren't violating any copy rights when do internet research. That means that you can't copy something without permission, but you can use information that you find to create your own image or written work.
We looked at this video to learn a little more about what's OK:
http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/getcreative/
as long as we aren't trying to pass someone else's work of as our own, and we give credit to our sources, we will be OK.

The first steps towards the group project is individual research.

1. download 7-10 images that tell a story about your people
2. keep track of the source URL's and paste them into google doc
3. research your nation in the time between 1400-1600 AD, and record 10 facts that you think are important
4. share your facts with your group members as collaborators

The group will eventually prepare a class presentation on the topic and a corresponding Wiki

Day 15: Humanities, Tech, and Images

We will be exploring the purpose of art which is that artworks and artifacts will tell us about the people that made them or the times that they lived in.
You are beginning to research an historical community or nation. The results of your research will make use of the following technology and art projects:

• a digital collage on your assigned nation
• written results of your research
• an in class presentation
• a group research wiki
  

7th grade nations are from Colonial and Native American History, 1600's AD
6th grade nations are from 1400-1600 AD Asian history

The first step is to find 7-10 images that give us clues about how the people of your assigned nation lived. Keep track of your sources by recording the URL's that you found thepictures on in a google doc. Downloaded images must be stored on a student flash drive, or other storage system.