Designing' ' 'in the round CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology

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Designing. . .in the round CTAP 295
Teaching with Technology

• by Karen Nichols. tahoe4911_at_earthlink.net
• Art Department Chair
• Reseda High School, Reseda, CA
• This is a lesson in COLOR THEORY for high school
  visual art curriculum which addresses several
  California state standards for the Visual Arts.

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Expectations

• At the beginning of this project, I expected to
• become more comfortable on the Internet.
• create a web site.
• prepare a standards-based lesson.
• learn how to put a lesson on the Internet.

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Outcomes

• I learned the following
• to navigate on the Internet
• to create a web page using Netscape
• Composer
• to link pages and projects
• to scan and incorporate photos
• to do graphing with Excel
• to do a Power Point presentation

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SuccessesThis project had many successes, as far
as student learning is concerned. The following
were thePROJECT GOALS

• To make learning fun!
• Now it can be made more palatable by opening the
  classroom door and allowing students to explore
  the world through technologyover the Internet.
• To engage students in learning.
• Its multi-faceted qualities make this particular
  lesson interesting to most students.

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More Project Goals

• To address educational standards.
• This gives structure and depth to lessons.
• To address different learning modalities.
• Visual and kinesthetic aspects have been included.

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Description of Lesson

• Students used MATH
• to divide a circle into 12 equal parts using a
  compass.
• to divide a circle into thirds, concentrically.
• Students used SCIENCE
• to study color perception.
• To study the qualities of color.

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Description of Lesson Continued

• Students used LANGUAGE ARTS
• by learning art vocabulary, such as
• primary, secondary, tertiary, intermediate,
  complementary, analogous
• by learning terms from geometry, such as
• diameter, radius, circumference, fractions (1/6,
  1/12, ½), concentric
• Students used SOCIAL SCIENCES
• in historical contexts
• mandalas
• medieval/gothic cathedrals
• in geographical contexts
• Chartres, France
• Nepal

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Pre and Post Test Comparison
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SHORTCOMINGS

• need more computers in the classroom
• students lack computer skills
• These are probably obvious and universal
  problems inherent with technology in the
  classroom therefore, they should not even be
• considered shortcomings at this time in
  history. Time will remedy the situation.

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Summary

• This project has made me more aware of the
  possibilities for using technology in the
  classroom. The computer is a powerful tool, but
  the Internet is an exciting outreach medium. It
  makes the teacher available at all times in that
  the assignment is always available to a student
  or to a parent who wishes to assist their child
  or just look in on what is happening in the
  classroom.