I found an easy and inspirational bookmaking Web 2.0 tool, Tikatok StorySparks, for differential with my students in art for the elementary level, which I feel would be a great motivational tool as well as cognitive. Student creates his or her own stories. And watch them develop into actual book with hard copies.
In art class we can intergrade this with a study about illustrator and what make up a story? We can intergrade Language arts into the arts and technology realm. Student can collaborate with one another by choosing their art pieces and editing their storybook. This Web 2.0 tool can help learners of all multiple intelligences, as well as enhance the right and left-brain learners during collaboration. Students create ideas for the story, draw and name their characters, apply their artwork into their storybook.
I like this Web 2.0 tool because it is fast and easy and it is cost efficient. Tikatok StorySparks allows the art teacher to teach book making and illustration through language arts and enhance critical thinking skills. Tikatok StorySparks allows the learner to view storybooks and writing from different perspective and utilize different learning strategies as well as collaborate with the publisher for a real life finished product. In visual art class we teach art as a visual communication technique in solving communication problems. Tikatok StorySparks enhances these teaching methods by allowing the student to come up with many different creative solutions, while working in groups or individually.
Tikatok StorySparks, can be used as a summative assessment in art by developing an end of year portfolio for the elementary levels. Art teacher just need to make sure they take photos of the students work and save them to the web sites photo file under my photos and create individual hardcover books for presents to their parents to take with them for the years work. People still like something to that is tangible and keepsake, when it comes to their children.
Wow Joan, this sounds great. As part of one of the classes I teach, we make children's books for elementary aged children and what they should be doing now to prepare for junior high school. This is a freshman level class and we spend time reflecting about the junior high school experience and come up with ideas that we can share with them on preparing for junior high. This is the first time I've taught this class and we just made corny paper books out of construction paper, but I will have to try using this tool as I think the students can get more creative and the elementary aged students will enjoy these books more.
ReplyDeleteYou and I share the creativity bug. I love your idea of using this tool as a way to assess students in art. I would collaborate with another subject area and share the tool as an assessment. Two birds with one stone. As teachers we need to look for more ways of assessing students. It is more real world to do application type assessments as well. This was a great find Joanie!
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