Hello Janie and everyone at the ASCD conference!

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:

  1. 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!
  2. 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?

One more week of the Quarter! YIKES!

Shane Koyczan – TED Talk “To This Day”... for the Bullied and Beautiful… “If you can’t see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror, look a little closer, stare a little longer, because there’s something inside you that makes you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit.”

Join Mr. Korb’s Remind 101 Texting Service for the following classes for:

Art Foundations: 2 Point Drawings of Microbiological images…

Malcolm MacDougall and his Microscopic Inspired Sculpture – 3D… How are you doing similar? http://malcolmmacdougall.com/wp-content/gallery/sculpture/scupture3_0.jpg

Goals:

  1. How are you communicating 5.5.1 rationale, 5.5.2 ideas and, 5.5.3 opinions. How does the drawing relate to the idea of PERSPECTIVE and making art inspired from SCIENCE and OTHER IDEAS?

Based on the ideas of science and microscopic images, is your work successful in creating a NEW and INTERESTING COMPOSITION? What is SUCCESSFUL? Composition? Technique with OIL PASTELS? Process with PERSPECTIVE?

Drawing: Kandinsky – What did you take from yesterday?

How are you doing? What’s your negative space looking like? http://newabstraction.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/KandinskyWassily.jpg

Goals:

  1. 5.5 evaluate responses to works of art for communicating 5.5.1 rationale, 5.5.2 ideas and, 5.5.3 opinions. How does the drawing relate to the idea of COLOR / MEANING / EMOTION / Spirituality / YOU / Music?

What’s working? What’s not? What to do to wrap it up for next week?

AP Studio Art: Snacks for Monday – Crit on Monday

How are you using line, shape and form? How are you advancing the ideas of your concentration? http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Admin/BkFill/Default_image_group/2012/10/24/1351096937370/Barbara-Hepworth-Concentr-010.jpg

Goals:

  1. 1.1 apply whatever media you are choosing  and use a variety of techniques, and processes with 1.1.1 skill and 1.1.3 and awareness so that your ideas are executed well.

What have you got to do this weekend to present your work? ANSWER The TWO QUESTIONS AGAIN… ONLINE!

Reflecting on the challenges of the day… how are you doing?

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/03/01/bc-poet-shane-koyczan-win_n_2790292.html – Read the Article HERE!

Shane Koyczan – TED Talk “To This Day”... for the Bullied and Beautiful… “If you can’t see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror, look a little closer, stare a little longer, because there’s something inside you that makes you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit.”

Join Mr. Korb’s Remind 101 Texting Service for the following classes for:

Art Foundations: 2 Point Drawings of Microbiological images…

Can you see the microscopic in the sculpture? http://malcolmmacdougall.com/wp-content/gallery/sculpture/scupture9_0.jpg

Goals:

  1. 6.1 compare aspects of your drawing with aspects of the scientific images you began with.

6.1 compare aspects of your drawing with aspects of the scientific images you began with. What are two similarities? What are two differences?  

Drawing: Mid Crit!

Kandinsky and his circles! http://www.kimberleyjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/K3-Wassily-Kandinsky-Concentric-Circles.jpg

Goals:

  1. 2.4 compare Kandinsky’s points of view and your theory regarding composition and meaning in artwork

As this develops, how are your ideas and Kandinsky’s similar and how are they different? What might you take away from this experience? How can you share that idea with the world? WRITE this out from the beginning of the hour. Has it Changed?

AP Studio Art: Concentration Time!

Concentrate! RUN! Or Draw! http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/236x/57/b5/9b/57b59be7908a7ed80fe78a0994573c7c.jpg

Goals:

  1. The past two days have been about REFLECTION… How are you 1.3 communicating your ideas clearly

What is the OBVIOUS connection your works have with one another? What is the NOT SO  OBVIOUS connection?

OOOps… I failed to title for today!

Shane Koyczan – TED Talk “To This Day”... for the Bullied and Beautiful… “If you can’t see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror, look a little closer, stare a little longer, because there’s something inside you that makes you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit.”

Join Mr. Korb’s Remind 101 Texting Service for the following classes for:

Art Foundations: 2 Point Drawings of Microbiological images…

Where are you gathering your ideas from? How has Malcolm MacDougal gathered his ideas? http://malcolmmacdougall.com/wp-content/gallery/sculpture/scupture6.jpg

Goals:

  1. 5.1 identify the reason(s) you are using perspective and microscopic images to making art – how else can you use these ideas beyond the classroom?

How are you using linear perspective? How are you using NON-LINEAR perspective? Share with a friend.

Drawing: KANDINSKY – What is your understanding of the BIG PICTURE?

GEOMETRY!!! How are you using it in your artwork? Are you? Make sure your theories are matching your art work and the MUSIC you have been inspired by. http://uploads8.wikipaintings.org/images/wassily-kandinsky/yellow-red-blue-1925.jpg

Goals:

  1. Apply GEOMETRIC subjects, symbols, and KANDINSKY / BAUHAUS based ideas in art and use skill to solve visual challenges

Biggest struggle / success for today? Write it out and the WHY!

AP Studio Art: Concentration Works – Keep Going – Crit on Monday!

Colored Pencil – Your Body Of Work. How are you CHALLENGING YOURSELF? What point did you find the challenge begin? When did you have an A-HA moment? https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/f97a9-girlonswing.jpg

Goals

  1. 4.2 describe the purpose and meaning of your art objects within your cultures, times, and places

How does this tie in? How – SPECIFICALLY – have you seen growth and development in the CONCENTRATION of work?

Welcome Back! Let’s get things rolling RIGHT AWAY! Move Forward!

Whatever the situation is, whatever challenges you have… never give up – keep moving forward! http://www.centralnccouncilbsa.com/OrgsRichTextImages/2390/martinlutherkingjr.jpeg

CALENDAR – Look to the side of the screen. This is there to help you know your due dates and assignments. Subscribe to the Google Calendar. This webpage is a TOOL for you to use – search through it – explore it – look under YOUR class… see what there is to see.

Art Foundations: Line – What is Art?

What is ART? What can you do with it? https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/what_is_art.jpg

Goals:

  1. Work on creating multiple visual solutions to the ideas of the Elements of Art and Principles of Design

What did you learn about your neighbors? What did you learn about yourself? What did you learn about you and your classmates think about art?

Drawing: Still Life and OBSERVATION

Look at what you are drawing – BE OBSERVANT – Know your angles and shapes and relationships. DRAW! http://jetantonio.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/box.jpg

Goals:

  1. Work on creating multiple solutions to Chiaroscuro and Shape Study.

What did you accomplish with your first few thumbnail drawings about the boxes? What do you hope to accomplish in DRAWING?

AP Studio Art: Review your concentration – SKETCHES and MEANING

Can we hang a show? Can you speak about your work? Can you be confident in yourself? http://www.freewebs.com/colemangallery/Coleman%20Gallery.jpg

Goals:

  1. Know about (1.1) communicating your ideas clearly
  2. (2.6) Work on creating multiple solutions to your next set of works –  Sketchbook PRELIMINARY – Collected on FRIDAY – WHAT ARE YOU COMMUNICATING WITH THIS?

Think about your exams – what were the biggest impressions you had from the classmate’s works? What were the most difficult things you felt as you presented your work? Conversation between classmates about the 2 questions for your exam.

OH NO! Exams are TOMORROW!!!

Who Needs EXTRA CREDIT? Take this SELF-EVALUATION and SURVEY to receive ONE FULL A+ Sketchbook Assignment EXTRA CREDIT. DUE – FRIDAY, January 17, 2014 at the END OF THE SCHOOL DAY.

This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on yesterdays. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art Foundations: Clean, Review, Question Mr. Korb about whatever questions you may have.

What are the elements and principles of art? How can you remember it all? What are you doing to prepare for the final exam? https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/elements-principles.jpg

Goals:

  1. 4.2 describe the purpose and meaning of art objects within different cultures, times, and places
  2. 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 (All Means STUDY!)

Review and Dr. Know All About Art Game, cleaning. G. What do you have to do to get yourself READY for the exam? Do you have your note card ready?

Advanced Drawing: Work, Work, Work – CLEAN!

PSYCHO! Mr. Korb’s favorite movie… well one of them… check out this reference to Edward Hopper’s “House by the Railroad” from Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller “Psycho”. http://www.edwardhopper.net/images/paintings/house-by-the-railroad.jpg

Goals:

  1. 5.3 describe meanings of Self Portrait drawings by analyzing 5.3.1 techniques

What do you hope to accomplish in the creation of this work? what messages are you communicating in this drawing?

AP Studio Art: CRITIQUE

Would the real slim shady please stand up? Elizabeth Peyton celebrates the celebrity! http://arttattler.com/Images/NorthAmerica/Missouri/St.%20Louis/Mildred%20Lane%20Kemper/Elizabeth%20Payton/Em.jpg

Goals:

  1. 4.2 describe the purpose and meaning of art objects within different cultures, times, and places
  2. 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

Questions? What is it you need to do on the final exam? How do you plan on finishing this artwork?

What do your today hold? Embrace it!

This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on yesterdays. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not worry about the past… what about today and tomorrow? http://www.makemymood.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/today-is-a-good-day.jpg

Art Foundations: Review – Hand in Art – Clean

Max Ernst – Frottage, Grattage, Decalcomania – Social Commentary? Maybe not that… http://www.kunstmuseum-bonn.de/typo3temp/pics/7a7e468339.jpg

Goals:

  1. 1.4.3 evaluation of your work as you are wrapping it up (formative and summative reflections about your artwork).

“The Golden Age of Abstraction” ARTnews, April 2013:

What are the challenges you had with this semester? Sketchbooks, class time, losing art? What can be done differently by Mr. Korb? What could be done differently by the artists?

Advanced Drawing: WORK! Clean!

We have looked at Edward Hopper a bit this quarter… lets read about him a bit more… http://www.edwardhopper.net/

Goals:

  1. 3.4 evaluate and defend the validity of sources for ideas 3.2 apply subjects, symbols, and ideas in art and use skill to solve visual challenges

What do you hope to accomplish in the creation of this work? what messages are you communicating in this drawing?\

AP Studio Art: Work – Clean!

Elizabeth Peyton – Let’s see her work! http://www.sanjeev.net/modernart/jake-at-the-new-viet-huong-by-elizabeth-peyton-0308.jpg

Goals:

  1. 5.5 evaluate responses to works of art for communicating 5.5.1 rationale and 5.5.2 ideas

What have you got to do to finish your exam? What is your concentration looking like?

Keep Calm… Focus on your GOALS (and exams).

“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

What it says! http://blog.7geese.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/keep-calm-and-focus-your-goals1.png

Advanced Drawing: Portraits

Vermeer’s “The Music Lesson” plays a similar role in the communication of ideas that you are working on in your artwork. What messages are YOU trying to communicate? http://taboofart.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/hiroshi-sugimoto-the-music-lesson-1999.jpg

Goals:

  1. (2.2) Evaluate the effectiveness of artworks in terms of organization and functions. (D).
  2. (3.3) describe the origins of images and ideas and explain why they are of value in art (D).

What is the message you are communicating? What do you need to take home so that this is DONE on exam day? (One day to work, one day to clean next week.) How fun /frustrating is this for you? WRITE OUT YOUR THOUGHTS IN YOUR COMMENTS SECTION!

Art Foundations: Texture / Collage / Social Commentary

Architecture and NON-OBJECTIVE Abstraction. How are you focusing on the ideas that are being presented? http://1vze7o2h8a2b2tyahl3i0t6812c3.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/52-1024×1004.jpg

Non Objective Art / Social Commentary PRESENTATION IS HERE

Goals:

  1. 3.2 apply subjects, symbols, and ideas in art and use skill to solve visual challenges.
  2. 1.1 apply media, techniques, and processes with 1.1.3 and awareness so that your ideas are executed well

As you think about the social topic you have decided to work with, why is it important to you that it become s the final work that you spend the time this semester working on? With all of the different techniques, projects, elements and principles that we have learned, how are you going to pull it all together to this final excellent work of art?

“The Golden Age of Abstraction” ARTnews, April 2013:

AP Studio Art: Concentration

What is Frank Juarez concerned with when he builds his body of work? What are similarities you have seen from the past two days? What are differences? How can you ask the same questions about your own work? http://frankjuarezpaintings.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/stay-float-by-frank-juarez1.jpg?w=700&h=&crop=1

Goals:

  1. 5.1 identify the rationale behind making art
  2. 5.2 stand behind your criticism of art

When speaking about and looking at others work, what have you learned about yourself? What have you learned about others?

Self Reflection Time… what have you learned about yourself?

“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

Advanced Drawing: Portraits and Rubrics

Johannes Vermeer The Milkmaid demonstrates many of the requirements of our assignment. Does YOUR drawing? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Vermeer_-_The_Milkmaid.jpg

Goals:

  1. (2.3) Create artworks that use organization and function to solve specific visual challenges. (P).
  2. (5.1)Identify the intentions and purposes behind making art.

What are the specific visual problems that you are in need of solving? What is the intention you have behind making this final work of art?

Art Foundations: Painting / Texture / Collage / Social Commentary

What does “Celestial” mean to you? Let’s take a moment and read about the ideas here. http://1vze7o2h8a2b2tyahl3i0t6812c3.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/04241-838×1024.jpg

Goals:

  1. 2.6 Work on creating multiple solutions to solve Non-Objective Abstract Compositions.
  2. 3.2 apply subjects, symbols, and ideas in art and use skill to solve visual challenges.

What are the / is the social topic that you are focusing on with the ideas of the Abstraction Artwork? Why is this the important topic that you have chosen?

“The Golden Age of Abstraction” ARTnews, April 2013:

AP Studio Art: Concentration 5 and 6 (or 6 and 7)

How are you focusing on the day to day, work to work pieces as you develop the body of work? http://frankjuarez.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/indiana-green-by-frank-juarez.jpg?w=299&h=300

Goals:

  1. 5.1 identify the rationale behind making art
  2. 5.2 stand behind your criticism of art (have a conversation with one another BEFORE we begin to talk about the most recent compositions you have for your concentration).

What have you learned about yourself? What have you learned about others?

AP Extra Credit – Through Friday at Midnight – Click Here!

Focused Goals – Keep Working and Stay on Task.

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

5 Days of Class… then EXAMS… let’s stay FOCUSED folks! http://mavericksquared.com/www/wordpress-content/uploads/2012/08/set-goal.jpg

Advanced Drawing: Portraits – Continue to work

Jan van Eyke – Arnolfini Wedding – interior / Exterior – Even the PAINTER is in the painting… https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/jan-van-eyck-arnolfini2bportraity2bdes2bdonateurs.jpg

Goals:

  1. (2.3) Create artworks that use organization and function to solve specific visual challenges.
  2. (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

Color Wheel and Texture – What do you remember about color mixing? Talk to your neighbor about HOW to mix, paint, clean… etc… http://integritypromos.com/site/custom_apparel_files/Color-Wheel—Transparent.png

Goals:

  1. 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
  2. 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:

What color did you find as very difficult to make? What color was easy (and not RY or B)?

AP Studio Art: Concentration Work and “Of Sailors and Whales” – DUE TODAY

What is a concentration? Frank Juarez is a Sheboygan artist – here’s his site! Enjoy! http://frankjuarezpaintings.com/

Goals:

  1. 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
  2. 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?