Henry Moore reclining figure

Here is a Henry Moore figure with more elements of realism. Note

• realistic pose
• folds of fabric in dress
• facial features
• hands
  

Henry Moore2 figure drawing

Here is a Google image of a drawing by Moore.
Note

• shading
  
• organic forms
• presentation of arms and legs of figure
• shadows
  

Henry Moore sculpture Mother and child

Notice the abstract organic forms in this sculpture yet it is clear to the viewer that the subject of the sculpture is a mother and child.

tech 1:1 week 5

My Computer as a Communicator in the Past
Our kids played PacMan on my Apple IIC as teenagers and typed their high school senior theses. The first year our son was in the university in the US, I had no email. Communication was by letter and phone calls every two weeks. Email took over then and has carried our family, friends, and legal business ever since. Last summer digital photography was added to my repertoire. My desktops have been my tools of professional communication through such courses as Advanced English Grammar with the University of Tennessee, Expository Writing with the University of Washington, and Writing Children's Literature with the Institute in Connecticut.
Up until now my computer has been my telephone, my mail service and my typewriter.

My Computer as a Tool for the Future
Ahhh, now..... Now, in 1:1 I am learning all its other capabilities. In 2010-2011 I will have a "teaching assistant" in my classroom. For me in art classes, the computer's ability to bring examples of artists' lives and their work and students' work on screen for the whole class to discuss or write commentaries will be wonderful . A blog seems at this point the most user- friendly means to accomplish this.
By 2013 I see hard copies of books becoming obsolete. I see the necessity of courses on internet research techniques taught vertically throughout schools. However, in art I hope that I don't see a lessening of hands-on activities. In fact, hands-on will become even more important since the fine motor skills of writing will be taken over by keyboarding and page layout will become automatic.
I know that access to information will be multiplied again and again. I fear the students' ability to synthesize and evaluate this flood of information. Their backgrounds of reading and life experiences will be narrowing in many ways as the virtual supplants the real in their lives. Let us remember to teach respect for what has gone before us, being cautious about hurriedly pushing away the past 555 years since Gutenberg's moveable type, in our attempts to grasp at the future.

practice blog uploading pictures

upload of a public photo already on this computer

learning to post pictures of mine

photo from my Cannon downloaded on my home computer and then emailed to ISB and uploaded onto this blog.

tech 1:1 week 4

First I'd like to speak to this week's videoes. Brave New World in its delightfully unusual presentation made a statement that I will tape on top of my computer, "See opportunties rather than obstacles" to help me if the frustration level rises when I can't make some tech skill work the way I want it to. Then the video went on to show the place of technology in the 21st century. I was afraid that the author would place technology in the center of the educational wheel. But it placed it as one of the spokes in the wheel. This too made a positive impression on me.

Now, in my head, I just need to try to understand what in education is no longer important -- handwriting, reading hardcopy books, grammar -- because I am seeing them all fade in importance.

Second: public domain vs privacy and the role of the teachers. I would ask first and foremost that parents be added to that topic. Schools must take on parent education in technology before anything that we do in schools has any lasting effect.

What would/should be published in newspapers/magazines or shown on TV might be good beginning guidelines to help students understand public domain.

We need students to know that:

• what they put into cyberspace never disappears and that it could come back and interfer with their lives at a later date.


• what they can't say to a person face to face has no place being sent out via technology


• what personal data/images that are posted can be accessed by people who will use it for dangerous purposes....financial, moral, physical


• what we take from cyber space needs to be credited just as one acknowledges sources from books


• what is in cyberspace is often not edited for authenticity, accuracy


• they will be drown with information from wonderfully exciting sources


• that it is easy to feel swamped


• that it will be tempting to just grab some information and stick it in a report without being critical consumers

The first step is that we as teachers see these trouble spots and now we must step back and teach more HOW and even less WHAT