Narrated Art Projects

Interested in having one of these sessions shared as a presentation or workshop for your organization? Many breakout sessions are available as 3 hour workshops, 1 hour interactive videoconferences, and downloadable podcasts. Learn more, view upcoming schedules, and find download links on learn.playingwithmedia.com.

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Session Description: Draw a picture or take a picture, and then record your voice with a website or app which puts shares your recording with your image. Narrated Art Projects provide excellent opportunities to practice meta-cognition, use nonlinguistic representation to boost student achievement, and improve oral communication skills. In this workshop we’ll view and discuss examples of student-created narrated art, and also create examples together in the session. Websites like AudioBoo and SoundCloud offer cloud-based audio recording and sharing using free smartphone applications as well as browser-based interfaces. Apps like ShowMe and Draw & Tell for iPad can streamline the creation and sharing of narrated art. Learn how narrated art projects can become important elements in students’ digital portfolios.

Referenced resources are on the "Narrated Art" page of Mapping Media to the Common Core.

Past & Upcoming Presentations:

These materials by Wesley A. Fryer are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Contact details for Wesley are available.

Playing with Media

Short description: Want to empower students in your library to create and safely share book multimedia reviews using a digital camera, a microphone, and a QR code? This session is for you.

Longer description: In a narrated art project a student can draw a picture or take a picture, record their voice with a website or mobile app, and then share that combined media file online. A free QR code can be printed and placed beside a featured book in your library so students, parents and others can quickly scan it with a smartphone to access it. Narrated Art Projects provide excellent opportunities to practice meta-cognition, use nonlinguistic representation to boost student achievement, and improve oral communication skills. In this workshop we’ll view and discuss examples of student-created narrated art, and also create examples together in the session. Websites like AudioBoo and SoundCloud offer cloud-based audio recording and sharing using free smartphone applications as well as browser-based interfaces. Apps like ShowMe and Draw & Tell for iPad can streamline the creation and sharing of narrated art. Learn how narrated art projects can become important elements in students’ digital portfolios.

Resources

  1. Narrated Art on Mapping Media to the Common Core
  2. Teaching Art in a Technology Rich and Connected Classroom (K12 Online Conference 2012 preso by Tricia Fuglestad)
  3. 1SS Art Factory (Art Class blog)

More session resources will be added as links here.