69th Annual ASCD Conference Attendees (and Janie) – Welcome to my DAY to DAY Goals Website!
Take a tour, have a look, follow me, and see how I effectively use technology as a tool for interaction, content, resources, collaboration and communications tool in my classroom. If you would like to contact me – you can e-mail me at fjkorb@gmail.com. Enjoy!
GOALS:
Know about how one teacher uses technology in the classroom as a tool for interaction, engagement, content, and a resource for students, parents, and the world!
Know about the benefits and positive aspects GANAG and all its components have added to one teacher’s ability to be more effective instructor and planner for my students (and the world)!
Take a minute and discuss with your neighbors about any questions about the how I use technology in my classroom? How are you effectively using technology as a learning tool, interactive tool, tool of engagement in your classroom? What else might you try out? Did you get my e-mail address for questions you might have? How about my website address?
If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”― Martin Luther King Jr.
4.3 compare relationships in visual art in terms of 4.3.1 history, 4.3.2 aesthetics, 4.3.3 and culture as it relates to your own art
4.4 evaluate and interpret art for relationships in 4.4.1 form, 4.4.2 context, 4.4.3 meanings showing understanding of the work of various art professionals*
What are your QUESTIONS about SCAD or OTHER art schools? Monies? Courses? Experiences? Come on… what are your QUESTIONS?
“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
Art Foundations: Ch 1 & Ch 4 – Non-Objective Line Drawings
(4.2) describe the meaning of NON-OBJECTIVE art objects within YOUR culture and time.
What were the different kinds and variations of lines you drew with today? What qualities of lines did you use and what messages do you think they communicate to an audience? What were your responses to the drawings that we worked on and why? Reflect with your neighbors about the drawings you did in class today and be able to identify the variety of different lines
2.1 ALLOW criticism to be formed about artworks that work to accomplish 2.1.2 personal, 2.1.3 communal, 2.1.4 or other meanings (Let’s set up your exhibit with your statements and nametags.)
(1.1) Apply media, technique, and process with skill and confidence (P)
As we get to the end of the week – Share with your neighbor the plans and advancements for this and the next piece. What sort of story do you think others might be reading in your work?
Special Thanks to the Teachers at St. Andrew’s School in Boca Raton, Florida. I had a great time speaking with you all. If I can help out in any way… please feel free to contact me! Frank
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“An average person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.” – Brian Tracy
(2.3) Create artworks that use organization and function to solve specific visual challenges.
(5.1) Identify the intentions and purposes behind making art. (D)
What has been the most challenging thing for you so far? How do you feel about the progress of your work so far? What do you need to do in order to finish? This will take us up to EXAM DAY… Rubric is DUE on exam day – critique will be the exam.
Art Foundations: Color Wheel and Color Mixing with Acrylic Paint
1.1 apply acrylic paint, color mixing techniques, and painting processes with 1.1.1 skill, 1.1.2 confidence, 1.1.3 and awareness so that your ideas of the color wheel are executed well
1.2 create painting techniques (grattage and decalcomania that demonstrates an understanding of how your ideas relate to the 1.2.1 materials, 1.2.2 techniques, 1.2.3 and processes you use.
“The Golden Age of Abstraction” ARTnews, April 2013:
1.2 create art that demonstrates an understanding of how your ideas relate to the 1.2.1 materials 1.2.2 techniques 1.2.3 and processes you use
3.3 describe the creation of images and ideas and explain why they are of value
What are the works that need work? What are you doing with the time you are in here? Should I be writing you passes for your study halls? If I am, should I continue?
Welcome to KorbArtWuhs.WordPress.com… take a walk around, stretch your legs, get a feel for the landscape. Here is where I begin and end all of my classes, while also providing a resource for my students, their parents, as well as teachers and students around the world.
Know about how one teacher uses daily goal setting and interaction in the classroom.
Know about the use of a website as a communication tool both inside and outside of the classroom.
Know about how using a students prior knowledge can help set the stage for better understanding of the topic at hand.
(Originally Posted: June 26, 2013) Technology in the classroom was my big presentation at this years InterActiv Learning Conference 2013 in Whitewater, WI. My largest concern with the use of today’s technology is the misuse of it. Having had an opportunity to listen to a new Freshman in High School (not mine… well, my kid, but not my district) discuss the use (or in some conversations that stand out – misuse) of important resources such as YouTube and Google it struck me that the conversation of how we use technology in the classroom as a learning TOOL and not as “bells and whistles” to entertain or simply to “connect” with the kids was important.
Technology and Interaction in the Classroom (link to my Google Presentation is HERE) was the presentation I had at the conference and I really wish I had heard Michael Wesch’s 201o Presentation at the University of Denver prior to my presentation. The good news (maybe for me) is that I am working in the direction he speaks about in his lecture (link to his presentation is HERE). To keep this brief (and give you a chance to watch his presentation) I feel the most important part of his lecture was to emphasize that the INFORMATION out there is NOT SCARCE and the student of today has all the access to it, in their pocket! The important thing to keep in mind, and this is a brain shift for all in education (kids, parents, teachers, administrators, school board members… everyone), is that the teachers need to help the kids learn HOW to use the technology to be self directed learners. The kids sure know how to entertain themselves with the internet… but strong learners of Web 2.0 tools they are not.
How can we, as teachers, use the tools that are out there to help the kids LEARN how to LEARN? How do we demonstrate the tricks of the trade, the skills that are essential in the process of learning so that the students we have the privileged to work with, can become more independent learners? One of the tricks of using the technology (information really) that is out there is to make sure we are teaching them how to CONNECT to it and not to simply learn it all for the test. This also ties into the thoughts of Noah Chomsky (HERE for a YouTube video Presented at the Learning Without Frontiers Conference – Jan 25th 2012- London) that the TEST is not a very good demonstration of the knowledge the kids have. Yes, maybe for the day and a few weeks later, but then – POOF – that is gone. How can we, as concerned educators and leaders, help the learners make sure that the information we provide them with connects to the world they are living in? The tools are there, and they will be using them for as long as they live. How can we connect the tools, the information that is available, and the techniques to gather, toss aside, sort, filter, and use that information is through demonstration by example, teaching and reteaching, and reviewing the importance of being aware of how the tools and information is to be used.
Kids Say the Darnedest Things
Knowing that sketchbooks and goals will ALWAYS be part of the courses, what is one suggestion that you have to offer for future classes? What are some suggestions you may have to help the class become even stronger or more fulfilling than it already is? These require explanation please.
“Make the goals so that everyone does them and doesn’t slack. It helps my brain learn from the beginning of class and I know it will help others.”
“To take the goals and understand them not just write them down.”
“The goals were kind of hard to understand when looking back at them. It’s easy to understand when you explain. but the way they are written down is tricky to look back at.”
Beginning of the Open Canvas Night – 15 minutes in!
My Empty Wall
2 works beginning. Mixed Media of Coffee Filters, Coffee Grounds, Bible Pages.
Propped up and ready to begin painting.
First coats with a light blue in the sky. The ethereal side of things.
A little bit more paint.
And now the yellow, the spiritual side of life.
A detail of “In Our Confusion, It Can Always Be.”
A detail of “In Our Confusion, It Can Always Be.”
A detail of “In Our Confusion, It Can Always Be.”
A detail of “In Our Confusion, It Can Always Be.”
My second work – I forgot to document this one as it progressed. “”Walking The Path of the Awakened.”
A detail of “Walking the Path of the Awakened.”
A detail of “In Our Confusion, It Can Always Be.”
The 2 works sold together for $275. All proceeds went to MIAD and the Peck School of the Arts, UWM.
The buyer and her friend, Thank you Tina Gallup. Ms. Gallup purchased my work LAST year too. Thanks! Good to see you again!
“You won’t be happy with more until you’re happy with what you’ve got.” – Viki King (author, writer, speaker)
What are YOU thankful for? Take 30 seconds and write out 3 things you are thankful for.
Art Foundations 2D: Intro to Critiquing, 2 Point Perspective
What are YOU incorporating into your city / neighborhood / interior?
Goals:
(1.2) Create 2 point perspective art that demonstrates how your ideas relate to the media, techniques (VALUE) and processes you use. (P)
(2.3) Create artworks that uses organization and function to solve specific visual challenges.
What was the success in today’s drawing? What was the challenge? What were the goals we have had over the past couple of weeks that you feel you have accomplished? WHY are you successful or unsuccessful with this artwork?
Advanced Drawing: Drawing and Evaluation
How are you using pastels? How did Degas?
Goals:
3.3 describe the creation of images and ideas and explain why they are of value
NETS: TONIGHT Use digital media to work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning (Begin your crit.)
What was the success in today’s first portion of the critique? What did you see when you ANALYZED your work? What was the surprising to you? What were the goals we have had over the past couple of weeks that you feel you have accomplished? WHY are you successful or unsuccessful with this artwork?
AP Studio Art: Still Life and Concentration (and WEB Design)
So… what are you worried about?
Goals:
3.1 reflect on how your art differs and describe how it relates to the CONCENTRATION you have begun.
3.3 describe the creation of your images and ideas and how they work with your concentration.
What did you accomplish today? What do you need to do tomorrow? Developing Still Life works, concentration work. How can you develop your OWN voice?
Today the ONLY goal is to test your knowledge of the arts and make it to the final round.
TODAY – ALL of my art classes will be participating in a quiz show called:
Special Thanks to the inspiration of all the folks from NPR’s Ask Me Another. NPR’s exciting new show featuring puzzles, word games and trivia played in front of a live audience. Ask Me Another is a co-production of NPR and WNYC. Host Ophira Eisenberg invites in-studio guests and listeners alike to stretch their noggins, tickle their funny bones, and enjoy witty banter and guitar riffs from house musician Jonathan Coulton. Additional thanks to game gurus John Chaneski, Art Chung, and actor/writer Will Hines
Youth Frontiers is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization that partners with schools to build positive communities where students thrive socially, emotionally and academically. Our vision is to change the way kids treat each other in every hallway, lunch line and classroom of every school in America. Bring Youth Frontiers to your school.
Our long and exhausting day with Dan and KK – it was AWESOME and an Adventure. I, and the rest of the group, were pooped at the end of the day! Thanks Guys! I only wish I’d have gotten some feedback from the kids about the experience they took away from the day. Personally, I know that I have a direction I am focused on over the next year (lifetime I hope) and walked away with a better understanding of others.
Dan the Guitar Player and Retreat Presenter
Dan is a singer/songwriter from Detroit who moved to Minneapolis when he was 18 to pursue a career in music. Seven years later, he has released three albums and has traveled all over the United States playing different venues and festivals.
In 2009, Dan came across a volunteer position at Youth Frontiers, and since then has come on board as a Retreat Staff Musician. He shares his music on retreat, and considers it a blessing to be able to work with an organization that allows him to pursue his passion and make a difference at the same time.
KK (Kesiah) a bundle of Retreat Energy and Marathon Madness
KK (Kesiah)
Kesiah, Retreat Director, has been with Youth Frontiers since 2007, though it feels as through it has been a part of her life since Junior High when she was a student on a YF Courage Retreat. She returned to work with YF as a high school leader, thus starting her career at YF.
She grew up in Forest Lake, Minn., with nine siblings, and when she wasn’t changing a younger sibling’s diaper or feeding them a bottle, she found her fun playing sports and participating in performance arts. After changing thousands of diapers, she felt that it was appropriate to devote her life to working with youth… and not just to be sure that their diapers were dry and the babies happy. Kesiah considers working with kids a privilege and she is delighted to walk into work everyday knowing that she gets to make a difference in the world.
Kesiah attended the University of St. Thomas where she studied Social Work and Political Science. In her spare time she loves playing and watching sports, running and doing anything outdoors. She also loves to cook for just about anyone.
While I could go on and on about the arts and why they matter… I will let the American for the Arts Action Fund do it in their own words. This is straight from their website: http://www.artsactionfund.org/pages/why
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But first: #BeTheARTbeat on twitter and social media present a quick little video by artists from around the country (me included – see if you can find me)… TWEET AND RT – SHARE ON FACEBOOK, WHEREVER YOU SOCIALIZE… LET’S MAKE SURE THE ARTS ARE SUPPORTED WHEN THE WE NEED THEM THE MOST!
Simply put, the arts are essential to the proper functioning of our society. The arts continue to demonstrate their ability to provide categorical evidence of their impact on social issues that concern virtually every facet of American society. The arts are especially important for our children. Students with an arts rich education:
Have better grade point averages
Score better on standardized tests in reading and math
Have lower dropout rates
Funding for arts education programs in schools is being cut back or eliminated. Many arts organizations have had to make drastic reductions in hours, and offer fewer productions each season.
The work of the Arts Action Fund helps reverse these trends. The Arts Action Fund is the only national organization that mobilizes Americans in the fight for arts funding and arts education. We’re building a nationwide army of citizen activists who will help guarantee that arts-friendly public policies are adopted at the federal, state, and local levels. Add your voice!
Donate to the Arts Action Fund
Help the Arts Action Fund advance the arts and arts education in your community and across the country.
Become a Member Annual membership is free. Join the movement to advance the arts and arts education in your community and across the country.
Support Pro-Arts Representatives
Review the Congressional Arts Report Card which grades all current Members of Congress on their support for the arts.
Tell a friend Spread the word and share what you’ve found with your friends. You can even customize the message, if you’d like.
Contact Your Legislator
Two minutes! That’s all it takes to tell Congress to support the arts and arts education.
Saturday, August 3 the Waterford Chamber of Commerce is running the Full Moon Four Miler race in Waterford. I remember YEARS ago – 10+ years maybe, sitting at the top of the hill, back near the Waterford Water Tower, ringing a cow bell saying to my family “I’ll do that next year!” That didn’t happen for a number of years – but I remember it well. Now, a few marathons behind me, I still enjoy the run. Today was a 17 miler in training for a fall marathon, I think that I will NOT be able to make the Full Moon on Saturday, but… Brett Roberts and I managed to pull together the awards for the first place finishers. All the best of running to all of the runners – big kids and little kids alike. Thanks to the Waterford Chamber of Commerce for trusting the Waterford Union High School Art Department for making the awards again.
Art With Korb 
