Humans of Mizzou Slideshow
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jvjVCThNYhf4rDwwxdp2EiXbSx-smDOvDz7QPAIq26c/edit?usp=sharing
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My Piece: For my slide of the slideshow presentation, I chose to do junior elementary education major, Nia Oliver. I caught her walking around the Reflector looking for a book to read to her first grade field classroom. When asked what her dream for education was she responded, "that every child has a chance to learn." She then proceeded to explain herself in the full quote to the left. I chose to take a full body photo of her to show her action of searching for a book among the numerous novels and stories in the Reflector.
Classroom Application: This would be a fun activity for third through fifth grade to get to know the people in their school community. Students can explore their school and find someone that they do not know, whether it be staff or student and ask him/her about his/herself. They can then make a google slide with a picture using an iPad and present to the class.
Materials Needed: iPad, Google Slides, Whiteboard or SmartBoard for presentations, Computer
Classroom Application: This would be a fun activity for third through fifth grade to get to know the people in their school community. Students can explore their school and find someone that they do not know, whether it be staff or student and ask him/her about his/herself. They can then make a google slide with a picture using an iPad and present to the class.
Materials Needed: iPad, Google Slides, Whiteboard or SmartBoard for presentations, Computer
Museum Field Trip
Reflection: My favorite activity that we did during this field trip was finding our favorite sculpture and then digging a little deeper as to figuring out why we liked it so much. I chose the sculpture of Nike of Samothrace because the detail on it stopped me in my tracks. I could not stop taking photos of it from all different angles and found something new about it with each shot. Perhaps my favorite part about this piece is the fact that it remains headless. Now while this may seem morbid, I think it adds to the sculpture's overall demeanor of being an "angel". I interpreted it to mean that anyone can be a saving grace and a figure that one can look up to. I think that taking students to an art museum is definitely something I want to do in my future classroom. It really shows students the importance of art in our history as well as our modern era. I also think that you can integrate almost any subject within a field trip such as this. For example, when we walked around trying to find sculptures with 90 degree angles, we were engaging in a geometry lesson. I think if I had students do this type of lesson, though, I would have a digital template with different angles and then have them take photos of what sculpture fit that angle and then paste the image into each category. This could be done on the iPads for fourth or fifth graders.
Faith Ringgold - Story Quilts
My Piece: For this assignment, we were instructed to choose a pivotal moment in our lives and create a drawing with a border that represents our event. From there, we had to write a paragraph about our event. I chose the day that I became a vegetarian as my pivotal moment. I explain that I get called a tree-hugger a lot by friends and family due to my love for animals and nature so that is what i decided to draw; me hugging a tree. I also drew Jane Goodall in a cloud because she is one of the main reasons for my choice to go meatless. My border was decorated using crayon resist and colored pencils. The drawings on the border all relate to animals or nature and the crayon resist is simple designs. the background of my whole piece is blue watercolor paint.
Classroom Application: I think that this would be a fun activity for any grade. For younger grades, however, they could simply draw and then explain their drawing rather than writing a paragraph.
Materials Needed: Paper, crayons, colored pencils, ruler, pen, marker
Classroom Application: I think that this would be a fun activity for any grade. For younger grades, however, they could simply draw and then explain their drawing rather than writing a paragraph.
Materials Needed: Paper, crayons, colored pencils, ruler, pen, marker
Final Unit Reflection
Overall, these studios related to the Bid Idea of Stories very closely. The Humans of Mizzou studio forced us to go outside of our comfort zone in order to figure out the motivation behind other students or staff at Mizzou. By doing this, we learned a lot about who they are as a person and ultimately, their story. . Additionally, when we went to the Museum of Art and Architecture, we learned the stories behind a lot of the sculptures which also related back to our unit on stories. This type of activity/field trip would be great for students to learn about the past as well as different cultures and the stories that those people had. Last but not least, we got to tell the world about a moment in our lives that was important to us and design the story quilt. By doing this, it allows us to share a possibly vulnerable part of ourselves through art which everyone can understand. "Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories" (Pink, 2005, p. 102). With that quote in mind, it makes sense that we are able to effectively communicate to others through our personal experiences and art forms. I realized while doing tis studio that it is very possible to get to know my future students through an activity such as a story quilt and be able to connect or relate to them better due to the fact that, "stories almost always pack an emotional punch" (Pink, 2005, p. 103). That, for me, was a great "ah ha" moment and is definitely something that I will incorporate into the beginning of the school year