Course Schedule
Art 334A: Nontraditional Canon
Computer in Art Education
Course Calendar
Week 1
8/28/M
What you need to know and what to expect.
Student and Course Introductions, and using the Black Board (http://bb.gvsu.edu).
Assignments:
Post one page of teaching philosophy on Black Board’s Discussion Board.
Bring images/photos to scan.
8/30/W |Lab Day|
Creating Web-pages (Dreamweaver): Interface Design and Linking Pages.
What is Wiki? Blog? and Podcasting? Sign up for blogs, wikis, podcastings, or vblogs, and post links on the BB Discussion Board.
Learning to use Photoshop: Editing digital images.
Review Project #1.
Readings:
Campell's Chapter 1-3
Week 2
9/4/M Labor Day/No Class
9/6/W | Lab Day |
Photoshop Techniques
Creating Self-portrait
Readings:
Freedman, K. (1997). Visual Art/ virtual art through teaching technology for meaning.
Information anxiety 2
Week 3
9/11/M
Artmaking & Big Idea.
Curriculum Design & Contemporary Artists
Identifying big ideas, key concepts, and essential questions. See Art: 21—Pepon Osorio.
Review Lesson Plan #1: curriculum concept and framework.
Readings:
Heidi Hayes Jacobs: Mapping the big picture: Integrating curriculum & Assessment k-12.
9/13/W | Lab Day |
Photoshop: layers/color adjustments/ tools|
Week 4
9/18/M
Site Visit: (You can visit Frederik Meijer Gardens, restaurants, community spaces, or art museums, galleries, etc). Write a page of reflection and Take photos to document the experience. Look for local artists, or community spaces that you might use for teaching your lesson unit. We will not meet at CAC Today.
Readings:
O. Gude: Investigating the culture of curriculum.
O. Gude: Rubric for a quality art curriculum.
9/20/W| Lab day |
Peer Teaching Lesson #1, Critique, Discussion, and Self-autobiography Project.
Week 5
9/25/M
Designing Art Curriculum with big idea
Readings:
S. Walker: Designing art curriculum with big idea
9/27/W| Lab Day |
Learning to use Flash: Animating text and image.
Comics strips and Storyboarding Concept.
Review Project 2: Animated short/Flip book.
Week 6
10/2/M
Integrated curriculum
Review Lesson Plan #2: curriculum concept and framework.
Mel Chin
Readings:
Parsons: Integrated curriculum, art and cognition
10/4/W| Lab Day |
Comics as medium
See Japanese anime: Cat Soup
Flash Techniques/ creating flipbook
Readings:
Joe Sacco uses the comics medium to describe the lives of Palestinians.
The Japanese obsession with cute icons is rooted in cultural tradition.
Week 7
10/9/M
Visual culture curriculum.
Readings:
K. Freedman & P. Stuhr: Curriculum change for the 21st century: Visual culture in art education.
10/11/W | Lab Day |
Peer teaching Lesson Plan #2, and class project #2 critique/discussion.
Week 8
10/16/M
Site Visit: art galleries (video artist). We will not meet at CAC.
10/1/ W| Lab Day|
Learning to use iMovie.
Review of Class project #3: Video Assignment.
Show example of sony’s bouncing ball.
Week 9
10/23/M
Identifying Big Ideas, Key Concepts, and Essential Questions.
The video art of Shirin Neshat.
Continue to gather any needed video and or sound for your project.
Review of Lesson #3: curriculum concept and framework.
Readings:
Walker: Chapter 6.
10/25/W |Lab Day |
iMovie- Editing your footage, Adding Title, Text, Effect, Transition, and Importing sound files.
Week 10
10/30/M
Visual culture & art education
Readings:
P. Smith (2003): Visual culture studies versus art education.
11/01/W |Lab Day|
Continue to work on iMovie project.
Week 11
11/06/M
Multicultural art education
Readings:
Ballengee-morris & Stuhr: Multicultural art and visual cultural education in a changing world.
11/08/W | Lab Day |
Continue to work on iMovie project
Week 12
11/13/M
Postmodernism
Readings:
O. Gude: Postmodern principles
M. Stankiewice: Learning in postmodern in art education
11/15/W |Lab Day|
Burned on a DVD
Continue to work on iMovie project.
Week 13
11/20/M
Assessment through authentic artmaking.
Readings:
Walker:
Campell’s chapters 4-5:
11/22/W Thanksgiving
Week 14
11/27/M
Peer teaching Lesson plan#3, Critique/Discussion iMovie Project: a 3-min video biography.
11/29/W |Lab Day|
Putting it all together.
Designing Web pages and Interface (Dreamweaver)
Concept mapping/linking pages.
Week 15
12/4/M
Continue to work on final project.
12/6/W| Lab Day|
Continue to work on final project
Week 16
12/11/M
Digital Teaching Portfolio Due and Showcase