Integration Ideas for Using Technology in Art

1. Using presentation software, such as PowerPoint, create a presentation about pottery and basketry from S. C. by inserting pictures found on the Internet that display prints of face jugs created by early African American slave laborers in S. C., and sweet grass baskets woven by African Americans from Charleston, S. C.

2. Using desktop publishing software, such as Microsoft Publisher, design and print invitations for parents and administrators to view a school art exhibit. Students label and identify artworks, in the show, and include lists of uses of the artworks.

3. Using Wacom drawing tablets, have students create self-portraits. After taking and printing pictures of students using digital cameras, have students trace their picture on the drawing tablet and fill in using the color fill and special effects tools.

4. Using the software, KidPix Deluxe 4, have students recall and describe observations; then have the students visually express experiences, such as a field trip to the zoo by using the drawing and color fill tools.

5. Using a digital camera and software for creating web pages such as Netscape Composer, create a "Museum of Student Artwork" by taking digital pictures of student artwork and putting them in a web page for public display. Attach this web page to an eChalk class page or to the teacher’s web site. This display could also be presented in PowerPoint.

6. Use United Streaming Video at http://streamlinesc.org, to include clips and images in a PowerPoint presentation to supplement and enrich an artist study. Demonstrate how travel experiences, such as those of artist Georgia O’Keeffe, influenced the subject matter of her paintings. At United Streaming, an art teacher can find videos from ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics to modern Pop Art. This site will be available for teachers in the fall of 2005.

7. Using a digital camera and software such as Adobe Photoshop 7.0 or Photo Editor, take several photographs with a digital camera. Import the digital photographs into the software. The students then enhance the photographs by adding or subtracting parts of the composition.

8. Using the software, KidPix Deluxe 4, students select sayings they have heard that are descriptive symbols of something very familiar such as: “life is a bowl of cherries”, “a fork in the road”, “it’s raining cats and dogs” or “he is two-faced”. Select one favorite quote and draw an illustration, which communicates a visual meaning of the phrase. These drawings can be created into a class presentation with the slide show component of the software.

9. Using a word processing program such as Microsoft Word, write a research paper on a specific visual art subject such as portrait, still life, or landscape, and compare how artists of different cultures or historical periods interpreted and expressed this common subject.

10. Using the Internet, work in small groups to research and compare art works based on the human figure created by artists from a variety of time periods such as William H. Johnson, Pablo Picasso, Francisco Goya, and cultures such as Polynesia and Benin.