Tech Task

I used storyboard for my art tech task. This app was so easy to use, you could use any place setting, outside, inside, park, plane, bus, car, really an endless amount of possibilities. You can pick any type of person, change any aspect of them, hair, shoes, outfit, etc. This is a great tool for students to use, preferably second grade or older, because it could be hard to navigate for younger students. I would look more into the visual art standards for grades 2-4. They need to understand meaning and emotions and many other ideas.

I picked Ed Sheeran as my artist, because students first off, need to realize that artists come in many forms, not just artist in books or as illustrators. Music is a huge aspect of art, and is something almost every student is connected to. Ed Sheeran is so inspiring because he started singing in the streets of his home (which is what I made above, and then went to parks, and finally made it to big concert halls and etc.) So the students can also find someone they find inspiring like I did. He did not come from a famous family, he had to work his way up from nothing. This tool makes comics, and I mentioned above some of the things you can do with it and what all you can change and rearrange. On top of what was already mentioned, you can also search people, ideas, places and so on. I made mine simple, but you can use dialogue and facial expressions. The characters are so up to date on technology and resources like texting and phones. Really, you can make any comic imaginable, you can make up a story, read a book to your students and have them make it themselves. Going off of that, if they read a story they liked in Language Arts, they could make a comic based off of that story. Or they read about a story in history and then they can make comics based on that, etc. There is an endless amount of ways to integrate this, which makes it so cool and useful! The students could most definitely make their own artifacts (mentioned above). It is easy to use because of the top bar and you can pick any color or object etc, everything basically pops up itself. (already mentioned above what could make it difficult). Other than that, it is pretty easy to use, and the only challenging part would be for younger students being able to navigate the site. It helps with creativity, because of the endless amount of possibilities.


http://www.storyboardthat.com/

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