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Entries Tagged as 'Content-Art'

What are your superpowers?

March 9th, 2011 · No Comments · Content - Language Arts, Content-Art, Digitial Storytelling, Voicethread

Image you are superhero- what superpowers would you select? Jasmine Hoyer and Michelle Popick put that question to their class. Once the students created their heroes (and powers), they then developed a plot, wrote dialogue, illustrated each frame, and put the entire project on a Voicethread. This learning opportunity included a variety of speech, language [...]

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Look for the art

February 22nd, 2011 · No Comments · Content-Art

Imagine you are in a museum and the lights go out- when there is a lightning strike and some of the artwork disappears!  Become a detective at the Walters Art Museum and follow the clues to find the missing art. Along the way you will learn about the art. (from iLearnTechnology)

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No funding for field trips?

February 1st, 2011 · No Comments · Content-Art

  How about an art trip that includes more than 20 world class museums? And where you can wonder through the galleries, obtain viewing notes, zoom in for a closer look, and link to sites with additional details?  And all this without leaving your classroom and for free!  Take the tour at Google Art Project. [...]

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Somewhere over the rainbow

February 1st, 2011 · No Comments · Content - Language Arts, Content-Art

Well, with this site, you can explore colors, and then discover their meanings, attributes, and associations.  Color in Motion is appealing and provides several options.  Learn about your color via a movie, test your knowledge about it in casting, or direct a scene to showcase your color’s traits.  You can even dabble with an online [...]

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