Interview 1
Interview 2
Interview 3
Interview 4
Interview 5
Interview 6
Project 1: What I Hope the Summer Holds for Me
These images depict one of the artists' projects, chosen for it's "thought-provoking" nature. Other participants interviewed the artist about what they made, and then used photography to purposefully compose shots to document the work for this portfolio.
Note at the bottom, participants even captured an image of the studio space, along with the open-ended assignment displayed on the screen.
We invite you to respond to this work, the images taken to document it, or the process of this exercise.
The original lesson plan for this project can be found here.
The original lesson plan for this project can be found here.
How to upload an HTML template
Blogger has many wonderful templates in their 'Design' area to create your portfolio. However, we found that we wanted to go even further and see what other people were doing to make their Blogger sites look even more portfolio-ish.
By searching 'portfolio blogger template free,' or 'gallery blogger template free,' we found sites like this one:
http://www.shoutpedia.com/10-best-free-blogger-templates/
These template sites offer both a 'demo' of their templates (live sites that use the template so you can click around and see how things work), and then 'download' links.
The following is a tutorial offered to help people through the download process, as well as how to use your new template by uploading the template file into Blogger.
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By searching 'portfolio blogger template free,' or 'gallery blogger template free,' we found sites like this one:
http://www.shoutpedia.com/10-best-free-blogger-templates/
These template sites offer both a 'demo' of their templates (live sites that use the template so you can click around and see how things work), and then 'download' links.
The following is a tutorial offered to help people through the download process, as well as how to use your new template by uploading the template file into Blogger.
Another YouTube tutorial to get you started!Lesson Plan: What I Hope The Summer Holds for Me
Imaginative Thinking Assignment-
What I Hope the Summer Holds For Me
The following is the original lesson plan created for participants during the Emerging Technologies session. We offer this example as a very basic way of sharing the ideas and objectives behind student work in an online portfolio.
Length: 10-15 minutes
Objectives:
- Participants will use creativity to express their ideas
- Participants will create a piece of art
- Participants will brainstorm their hopes for the future
Materials needed: Misc. art supplies: paper, tape, scissors, marker, pens
Process:
- As participants enter the room, ask them to consider the prompt: What I hope the summer holds for me.
- Encourage participants to incorporate multiple modes of artistic expression: words, images, 3D paper folding, collaboration with a partner, etc.
- Ask each participant to create a piece of art that expresses their hope for what the summer holds.
Participants will display their art for others to view
Participants will evaluate one another's art for expressive qualities
Participants will use interview questions to examine their artistic process.
Portfolio building assignment:
Break into two groups; one for audio documentation and one for visual documentation. Decide as a group which art piece is the most thought-provoking. Each participant considers the work on their own, and develops an interview question for the chosen artist. Visual documentarians compose at least five shots that show the work and the artist's thinking. Audio documentarians interview the artist with a digital recorder. After digitizing the work, it is uploaded and the portfolio is discussed among the to the full group.
Illustration by: Johanna Kim
Embedding Audio Into your Porfolio/Blog
I find that you should never, ever underestimate what free and helpful information awaits in the form of video tutorials! Just below is one I liked that demonstrates how to upload and embed a little "audio player" into your blog. Note that the YouTube video below is also an embedded object, created by pasting some html code directly into the blog entry.
For this, you'll be downloading and using free software called Audacity, and setting up a free account with DivShare (pictured to the left).
Now here is my first attempt at embedding audio following the steps in the tutorial:
A success!
