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Creating a Visual Arts Visual Culture Online Learning Course:
From Theory to Research to Practice
John Krenik Walden University
NAEA March, 30? 2014
Creating an 8th Grade Online Visual Culture Course
Based on Theory Contemporary
Research
Social and
Realistic Thinking Technology
Implement
Theory Informs Mission
• Informs organization
• Structure of mission
• Educational objectives
• Communication via technologies
• Problem solving
• Attention
Conceptualizing and Thinking through Social Interaction
Social interaction
• students
• teachers
Thinking
• context
• Meaning
• Problem-solving
Conceptualizing
• questions
• Connections
• abstract
Social Learning and Thinking
Encultration
Social Context
Situated
Art and Technology for Online Learning
• aRt is the fourth “R”
• Storytelling
• “art hates to follow”
• Art & digital age
Web Text
• Technologically advanced
• Story telling
• Digital art
• Collage
• Spacing
• Blocks of text
Communication through Art and Digital Storytelling
• Constant change
• Conflict resolution via imovie/movie maker
• Higher level thinking
• Copyrights
• Create/manage/produce
The Importance of Art Integration
• Media
• Web pages/powerpoint
• Images/diagrams/sound/motion
• Skills transfer to job market
Social Cultures, Social Learning and Collaboration
• Social networking
• Online learning situations
• Distance learning communities
• Social learning
• Collaboration
Social Interaction and Learning
• Social networking
• Ambiguous problems
• Authentic learning
• Fluid culture of community
Collaboration and Problem Solving
• Zone of proximal development
• Ambiguouse problems
• Collective problem solving
• Art/emotion
• Authentic learning environments
Online Learning Research
• Socialization
• Organizational process
• 20% to 62% of middle schools
• 75% of 12 year olds use cell phones
Reasons Underlying the Surge in Online Middle School Learning
• Prepare for future emergency
disasters
• Physical, psychological, and learning disabilities
• Discriminatory and class factors
• Open system of blackboards
• Meets student needs
Beneficial Outcomes and Positive Social Change in Learning
• Positive social changes
• Constructivist social learning context
• Social technologically advanced generation
• Flexibility, independence
• Online galleries
• Wiki sites
• Long-term memory
Considerations for Creating an Online Middle School Visual Art Course
• Purchase/lease/customizing
• Self discipline/motivation
• Plagiarism-turnitin
• Time-energy
• Angel/moodle/blackboard/other
Making online learning Multi-modal for Middle School Students
• Multiple technologies
• SMS/RSS/text/twitter/instagram
• YouTube/webconferencing/avatars
• Adobe Connect Pro platform
• SitePal speaking avatars and Voki avatars
Cognitive Benefits of Online Learning for Middle School Students
• Authentic collaborative constructivist
projects
• self-directed, student centered constructivist learning environments
• Zone of Proximal Development
• Interactive
• Increases collaborative discussions and critical thinking
8th grade course: The Influence of Visual Culture in Web Design
• 9 week course
• 6 lessons in each week
• Mission statement formed skeletal framework
Ohler’s Framework for Managing Online Environments
• A special situation
• Use many communication venues
• Multimodal approach
• Great variety of media
• Use metaphors
• Use social setting metaphors
• Require collaboration
• Story telling
21st Century Literacy Skills
• Synthesize new information in new situations
• Proficiency in media and web literacy
• Critical analysis for communicating
Visual Culture
• Visual experience in everyday life
• New forms of art on the web
• Micro messages embedded in visuals
Situated Learning/Authentic Learning
• Students make internal connections
• Authentic activity, culture and concept
• Confident automatous learning
• Ill-defined and deepened problems
• Video conferencing
• File sharing; videos, websites, and pictures
Course Framework
• 9 week course
• 6 lessons per week include: – Essential questions
– Discussion posts
– Research
– Collaboration
– Projects
– Digital galleries
– Critiques
9 Week Schedule Week Essential
Questions
Discussion posts
Research Collabo-ration
Projects Digital Galleries
Critiques
1 How are social environ-ments influenced by digital visual culture?
Respond to at least 2 of your class-mates’ postings of their answers to the essential question
Digital Web design
Intro to the class and peer art and person-ality
Create Web Design with Visual Culture Literacy
digital web page collage
web pages you think are well designed aesthetic-ly & Critique a class-mate’s digital web page
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Weekly Schedule
Week 1
Essential Questions
Discussion posts Board den
Research Collabo-ration
Projects Digital Galleries
Critique Board
Monday Day 1
x X X x
Tuesday Day 2
x x x
Wednesday
Day 3 x x x x x
Thursday Day 4
x x x
Friday Day 5
x xxx x x
Saturday Day 6
x x
Weekly Schedule
Week 8
Essential Questions
Discussion posts Board den
Research Collabo-ration
Projects Digital Galleries
Critique Board
Monday Day 1
x X X x
Tuesday Day 2
x x x
Wednesday
Day 3 x x x x x
Thursday Day 4
x x x
Friday Day 5
x xxx x x
Saturday Day 6
x x
Visual Culture Projects
• Web design
• Animation
• Collage
• Digital story telling
• Self & group evaluations
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