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With 34 years in the field of art education, Joan Maresh-Hansen experienced the beginning of the digital art technology and has mastered the manipulation of design software programs. In Bootcamp for 21st Century Classrooms: Technology Training she shares a wealth of experience and collected works from various students' digital media assignments. This presentation features many multimedia assignments and coursework using digital technology. The stories behind the pictures will inspire and motivate educators into embracing digital technology and its implementation in their classrooms. Her vision and method will benefit educators and it will enhance the interaction between teachers and students in the instruction and learning of multimedia software. She is currently pursuing a grant that will fund a national non-profit Bootcamp for 21st Century Classrooms.
Bootcamp for 21st Century Classrooms: Technology Training
"The place where there are more great ideas than memory to store them."
Software used include:
ClarisWorks (now AppleWorks)
Adobe Photoshop-now part of Creative Suite 3 (CS3)
Adobe Pagemaker (now called In-Design in CS3)
Adobe Illustrator (CS3)
Hyperstudio
Macromedia Director (CS3) and Flash
Specular Infini-D
Morph
Painter
Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage)
Flip Book Animation leads to Multimedia presentations
This presentation of images grew from Joan's teaching of students on how to build a presentation using various design software programs. Designing Flip Book Animations allowed students to practice the various design software features and tools while simultaneously drawing a cartoon sequence. Students learned to create a sequence of events using the forward and back buttons. Electronic Flip books allowed students to learn the tools, add buttons, and tweak their imagination.
First year students were asked to do animation by creating a four-page flip book. Joan's students loved this exercise so much that many of them exceeded the page requirements. The record page count was a 253 page flip book from a very enthusiastic student. Various ways to incorporate a flip book into a presentation occurred such as lead in for the presentation or in the ending credits. Students' imaginations soared during this exercise and students did some incredible projects.
Image Manipulation
Second year students learn image manipulation with their own original photos and artwork using Adobe Photoshop. Students love experimenting and manipulating Adobe Photoshop.
Below is an example of Yvonne's own photos as the subject for experimentation.
 
Justin experimented with his own digital self-portrait using painter program and image manipulation software.
 
Below is an excerpt from Martin's poster series and animated multimedia presentation with funny manipulations of digital photos of his self-portrait.
Note: An Andy Warhol-like assignment in McGraw Hill's 2005 release of Digital Studio Projects will be expanded upon in the soon to be released Digital Design Book & Diaries. Joan collaborated with her students on each of the projects in this book. The students were very involved in the project and they did amazing work.
Creative Book Design & Desktop Publishing
Third year examples of student coursework are featured in this presentation. Students were challenged to create their own books. Instruction to students included developing the theme, purpose, title and introduction, and table of contents. They developed the theme and purpose of their books, created a title and introduction and table of contents. They designed each page by manipulating their own original art, upon completion, the books were printed and bound.
These "Published Personalities" were absolutely incredible! Here is Tina's introduction statement in her book.
Below you see the final draft along with the "mini-me" version that had to be submitted for teacher approval before they could continue toward the completion of their final copy of their larger books.
Marketing Themselves as Artists
This presentation features works of senior art students who were instructed to prepare a marketing campaign for their own Senior Art Exhibition. Below you see two Senior Show Catalogues, which included all of the artwork that had been on exhibition in addition to each of their artist's statements. An introductory explanation of their exhibit was required as well as concluding remarks, and expressions of appreciation. The catalogue was only one part of their marketing campaign for their Senior Shows.
The second part of the campaign involved creating a front and back side of a post card invitation, a poster or flyer advertising their show, artists tags for each piece of work with completed artist's statements with the title, media and size of each work, a sign in book, a show catalogue and a one page flyer called a "leave behind" or paper portfolio with an 8" by 10"flyer of their best works, an artist's statement, and resume contents. These projects were created for talent scouts from colleges, prospective bosses, and proud parents. This "leave behind" provided a memorable visual evidence of the student's artistic style.
A representative from a major university in Boston who traveled across the United States in search of prospective students visited the school in Texas where Joan taught. The representative then visited numerous other schools across the USA. She was very impressed and remembered the "leave behinds" of Joan's students. She contacted Joan to comment on the quality of her students' work and the how the "leave behinds" left an indelible impression in the mind due to the talent and quality of the works. Check back periodically for additional images of students' leave behinds and marketing campaigns.
More Independent Projects
We will be adding more images of students' independent projects so come back often to check on what's new.
ArtWorkBook Bootcamp
http://www.artworkontheweb.com/AWBBC.html
This new and exciting bootcamp will saturate the audience with visually exciting and inspiring multimedia presentations that introduce the full-color, newly revised, 1990 publication of The ArtWorkBook. This five part series of presentations introduces the art educator to THOUSANDS of images and ideas to inspire a productive year of teaching art in various levels. First year, second year, third year, and fourth year students' artworks are presented. The exceptionally rich multimedia presentations will show various Advanced Placement Studio art portfolios of individual students and portfolios of various successful projects. Archived collections of student artwork will spark new ideas on ways to teach the middle school and high school curricula. Attendees will have fun in this bootcamp, and leave with fresh new ideas in planning their school year.
Presenter Joan Maresh-Hansen is a seasoned speaker, teacher, author, and former multimedia instructor who is passionate and enthusiastic about sharing ideas with her colleagues. She has spent the last three decades teaching art on and off the computer as well as presenting at both state and national conferences. She has provided staff development seminars across the United States and across her native state of Texas. She delivered an exciting keynote address to the Washington Art Education Association in Seattle.
Workshops can be designed in weekend retreats for a group of colleagues and can be paid by school purchase order, credit card or check. A limited number of scholarships are available upon requests.
Book now for ArtWorkBook Bootcamp 2008-09 customized workshops.
Cool Art Store
www.artworkontheweb.com/catalog
Coming Soon!
For more information about this upcoming section, contact jmh5@mac.com or the Webmaster with SEND Notification of Cool Art Store Opening in the subject line of your email. We will notify you when the Cool Art Store is available.
Student Portfolios
www.artworkontheweb.com/studentportfolios.html
This is a gallery of student portfolios. Enjoy!
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