Create > Give Form to Children’s Shape Drawings

Create > Give Form to Children’s Shape Drawings

Goal:  Use children’s drawings as the basis of a fully developed composition.

Google > Children’s drawings or have  your little brother do some drawings for you.  Choose a drawing and render the shapes into forms using color and value ranges.  

Trigger Mechanisms:  

Value, Reduce, Abstract

Visual examples:

Boredpanda > http://goo.gl/bhdYjp

DeVries > http://goo.gl/hegE

Materials:

Paper, watercolor, acrylics, pastels etc...

Pride > Providing Recognition & Providing Feedback

Instructional Strategy

• Providing Recognition

Learning Activity

• Publish > Share to Public Your Photo Album > http://goo.gl/gyAlaH
• Display > Add Photos to the Pride Framing Event

Instructional Strategy

• Providing Feedback

Learning Activity

• Positive Feedback > +1 every image that deserves it
• Self-Assess > Reflective Rubric Assessment > http://goo.gl/y62sdN  
• Self-Assess > Life Skills Survey > http://goo.gl/iEUqr

Get in the Shot of your Life > Holiday Cards with PicMonkey

Instructional Strategy

• Setting Objectives

Learning Activity

• Personalize Goals > Socratic Seminar Get in the Shot >  http://goo.gl/Lph0m5
• Respond > in the comment section answer:
1. How will you 'create' memories this holiday season?
2. How are you going to 'get in the shot' of your life?
3. What is your New Year's resolution?

Instructional Strategy

• Cooperative Learning

Learning Activity   

• View > http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/christmas-cards  

Instructional Strategy

• Nonlinguistic Representations

Learning Activity

• Create > With PicMonkey > http://www.picmonkey.com/ a Holiday/New Year's card
• View > The following tutorials

1. Make a Holiday Photo Card
2. Holiday Graphic Cards for the Ho-Ho-Hurried
3. Ten Steps to an Edit-worthy Holiday Photo
4. Holiday Graphics Cards for the Ho-Ho-Hurried
5. New Blank Canvas Feature Puts Graphics in Your Wheelhouse

#westoshaphoto   



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Because while we take the same photo, our perspectives change, 
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And it hit me: One of the most important things we all make are memories.
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So I want to share the idea of taking an active role in consciously creating memories.
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I want to encourage everyone to get in the shot, and don't hesitate to ask, "Will you take our picture?"
 

Pride > Artist's Statement and Compare Padlet

Instructional Strategy

• Providing Recognition

Learning Activity

• Summarize > Reflective Artist’s Statement > http://goo.gl/0P2NKw

Instructional Strategy

• Identify similarities and differences

Learning Activity

• Compare > Pre and post-instruction images > http://goo.gl/gfkrbb  

Analyze > Pride Image Analysis

Instructional Strategy

• Identifying Similarities and Differences

Learning Activity

• Analyze > Pride Image Analysis

Setting Objectives > Pride Framing Album

Instructional Strategy

• Setting Objectives

Learning Activity

• Personalize Goals > Essential Questions Survey  
• Focus the Learning Targets > Grading Buckets Rubric

Create > PicMonkey Motivational Pride Poster

Instructional Strategy

• Cooperative Learning

Learning Activity

• Hypothesize > the meaning of the following quotations

"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve." –Napoleon Hill

"Either you run the day, or the day runs you." –Jim Rohn

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." –Wayne Gretzky

"People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing.  That’s why we recommend it daily." –Zig Ziglar

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." –Lao Tzu

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."  –Buddha

"Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right." –Henry Ford

Instructional Strategy

• Nonlinguistic Representations

Learning Activity

• Create > PicMonkey Motivational Pride Poster >

1. Search > for a motivational quotation or saying
2. Comment > paste the motivational quotation in the comment section
3. Download > one of your Pride Framing images
4. Open > it in PicMonkey > http://www.picmonkey.com/
5. Use > the text tool in PicMonkey to add it to the image.
6. Share > the image to the G+ Photo Community
7. Copy > the image to your Pride Framing Album

Social Dialogue > Pride Socratic Seminar > Try Something New

Instructional Strategy

• Cues and Questions

Learning Activity  

• Social Dialogue > Socratic Seminar: Mat Cutts Try Something New

Focus on Relevance > Pride Meaning & Content Survey

Instructional Strategy

• Cues and Questions

Learning Activity

• Focus on Relevance > Pride Meaning & Content Survey