So the fortune cookies were a hit. Some students had ideas they were already working on and it gave other students a nudge to get the ball rolling. One student took pictures with the camera of a fortune cookie and was about to cut it out in photoshop. I told him the lighting and set up of the image was perfect so asked if he could do both as ideas. Another student took pictures of the sky and trees and himself for his "Think Big" design. Another student is doing a drawing with a penguin she is scanning in to work with, another student is doing a "This Billboard is Pointless" idea that has a hand pointing to the word less, another student's idea is about autism who's autistic, another student's idea is "Whatever Floats Your Boat," another student's idea is "Time is Money." Jamie helped him think of ways to make it original by changing the words. I also helped him jot down some ideas, Time is Honey, Time is Funny, Time is Bunny. Lime is Money, Dime is Money. Rhyme is Money. I liked Time is Funny. It's superficial and meaningful at the same time. Imagery that came to mind was a bunch of arrows.
Were going to work tomorrow, and vote either at the end of class or beginning of class Thursday. Were going to vote for the top three slogans then students will redesign those and pick the best of each one. Then we will vote on the final 3. I'm going to have them print up their first draft and have an exhibit of this overall project in the school somewhere showing what we all came up with for the billboard.
I emailed The Redhouse to see if they have any openings for a student show for the alien storyboard. It looks like they might based on their website's schedule, but who knows if that is accurate so I shot an email to see. I think most of the kids don't see the connection to their community or sharing work with their classmates as a shared experience or outside the class. I think if its available the bound books might be fun to display given they are interactive and fold out. I'm thinking of having them record voiceovers for their books, and putting together a big video with all their pieces for everyone to see that could be on display as part of an exhibit. If nothing else we will show it at the end of the project and watch it in class.
I'm going to begin filling out my service learning packet that I have to give to Kelly as well as my contextual framework for my unit plan. Kelly said I'll just give that to her since its so much to explain.
The latex is going smoothly. The students are continuing their works for the 6 x 6 show in Rochester. I finished mine and are helping them. I also did a new piece on latex inspired by Jeff's process but it needs more work. Jeff went to see if we could go to the shop to cut wood to frame wood we will work on in that class. The shop was free so he's going to show us how he does it for his pieces and we'll do that for everyone's in the class once we get to that. I think were going to do latex on canvas next. Some of the kids in the class are getting it and some aren't yet, so I think I might need to show them some more, or explain more.
One girl in the other class that is not doing either of my lessons yet is trying the latex out for a background she's working on. Today after school, she came in with three friends and had them help her peel them off. She's very talented and likes Florence and The Machine just like I do. We have all the same musical tastes. I'm going to bring her a CD of Little Dragon because its similar to all the other music she likes but she hasn't heard of them yet.
Some of the students are getting done with their piggy banks. One person is done, others are nearing the end. I'm going to have them make another one so they have two in case one doesn't work out, or so they can explore with glazing. The second one can be another animal if they'd like to do something different. Jeff is ordering corks for them to use. I went to Michaels and AC Moore and bought two to get the specs for what we'd need to fit a quarter so we could all make ours. My feet were too short after I put it in so I was glad I was able to have them there for students to use and then build feet around it to make sure they were tall enough. I like that this project is functional and that makes it engaging. It was a lot of work so I don't think they really want to make another one but I told them we can all begin the second one together and they can finish their other undone projects in the meantime. I want to learn how to make a donut like Sonya did so that can be my second lesson with the ceramics class.
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