The 5th graders learned how to take a picture and remove the background and save it as a png file using Adobe Photoshop. Then they choose another picture to be the background and placed their edited png into the photo. We had a lot of fun being silly and putting creatures in unusual places like a cow on the moon or a dinosaur on a farm. here are two students examples!
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The second graders have been learning about the states of matter in class. During our technology time they had the opportunity to do some research and practice what they've learned about those states using a variety of interactive websites and apps as well as a YouTube video. They are quite the scientists! The Middle School Students had a mini lesson on Photoshop and how to create a mood. They were given three links - one to a Google page of Fauvist paintings, one to a Google page of Impressionist paintings and one to a Google page of landscape photographs. They were directed to find a painting that they were drawn to and then look for a photograph that had some of the same elements. Next, they were asked to edit the photograph using some quick editing tools and experiment trying to make their "painting" look like the Fauvist or Impressionist painting. We noted how the Impressionist paintings had more dotted brush strokes and muted colors. The Fauvist paintings were more colorfully vibrant and had more smeared brushstrokes. Here are a few examples of the students work as they posted it to their student blogs: Here, the first is the fauvist picture that inspired me, second is the photo that I found that looks a little similar, third is the one that I edited first, then the last one is the last one I did! The reason I used the photos I did was because I liked how they both looked like fields, even though the color might be different the landscape looks the same. With the hills and curves it shares like qualities. This project helped me express my creativeness at school which I think other schools don't get to do as much. - Leighann
The 5th graders are researching inventors. For our technology lesson this week, the students had the opportunity to research their inventor on the internet but then to organize information using a graphic organizer. We have Inspiration on our school server, but students were introduced to three other internet based graphic organizers. bubbl.us, gliffy and popplet are all web applications that can be used for free and have a variety of elements to create idea webs and many other visual organizers. The students had the opportunity to view each application and choose any one to work on. They then took the information they gathered back to class to continue working on their project. |
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