TECHNOIMAGES TECHNOLOGY PROJECT
| Digital Art Lesson Plans |
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Teacher Guide - Student Workbook -
Resource Files
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Spark the imagination!
Use the FREE
software PhotoFiltre, along with step-by-step instructions, to create artwork. Hang each
masterpiece on a PowerPoint slide to produce a digital
art gallery.
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Express Yourself as Digital Art
In the TechnoImages technology
project, students take a journey of
self-exploration. They express their mood,
style, and attributes as digital art.
Digital Art
Projects
- Experiment with Color:
Modify the color in a picture to discover how it changes the
overall appearance.
- Express your Mood:
Study famous paintings and notice how color changes the mood.
Apply this knowledge to alter the color in a self-portrait to
express mood.
- Art Styles: View a
presentation about artistic styles. Notice how the elements of
design in each picture are unique. Use photo editing software to
apply filters to change the design elements in a picture to
recreate the artistic styles studied.
- Express your Style:
Apply knowledge of filters to transform a self-portrait into a
picture that expresses "style".
- The Art of Text:
Experiment with text to create fun looking stencils with color,
texture, and patterns.
- Visual Poetry: View
samples of artwork that uses words to convey a message. Compose
an acrostic poem, and transform it into visual poetry.
- Net Art: Arrange
artwork onto slides and display the digital art gallery as "Net
Art".
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Get Inspired!
Prior to each
activity, students study paintings created by a
variety of artists as a source of inspiration.
Who are You?
Once the students' imagination has been sparked, they use
the tools in PhotoFiltre to create digital art that
reveals "who they are".
VIEW VISUAL POETRY SAMPLE |
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Reflect on Artistic
Choices
After each piece is created, students arrange
the artwork in a digital art gallery, by placing
each image on a PowerPoint slide. Below each picture
in the Notes Pane, they explain their design decisions,
production techniques, and the meaning of the work.
Net Art
Once all the artwork is completed, the digital
art gallery is transformed into "Net Art", which
allows the digital art to be seen on the Internet.
Posting the file to the Internet is optional.
TechnoImages is Affordable
The TechnoImages technology project is great value
for your money. You will receive a teacher guide,
student workbook, and customizable resource files
for a price that is
affordable.
The Work is Done
for You!
You don't need to
research art history and famous painters. You don't
need to know a lot about the elements of design. It
is done for you!
Included in the
TechnoImages technology project are slideshows that
teach students about art history, artistic
styles, famous painters, and the elements of design.
Click to view a slideshow about COLOR.
Elements of Design
The emphasis in this
project is placed on the elements of design and how
they influence the appearance, feeling, and meaning
of a picture. Students learn how to use digital
art tools to adjust:
- line
- texture
- space
- form
- color
- shape
By "playing" with these elements
students are able to dramatically alter their images.
Benefits to Digital
Art
There are many
benefits to integrating technology into your art
program. Students can benefit from using digital
art tools to produce artwork. The computer offers an
opportunity to be creative! The benefits include:
- experiment with a wide-range
of colors, filters, and paint tools
- mistakes are easy to correct -
just click "undo"
- starting over is as simple as
clicking "revert"
- save multiple versions of the
same picture
- artistic choices are instantly
applied for immediate results
FREE Photo Editing
Software
Our team members have been in search of
photo-editing software appropriate for children for
years. We have been lucky to find an excellent
program called PhotoFiltre V6. This software is FREE
for educators. To download
the program visit http://photofiltre.free.fr/frames_en.htm You will be impressed with
the quality of the software!
Software: Microsoft
PowerPoint, FREE software PhotoFiltre V6
Version: Microsoft Office
2000, XP, 2003, and 2007
With TechnoImages you can spend your time with
students having fun in the computer lab creating
artistic masterpieces!
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