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Identity Collage

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Title:

Identity Collage

URL:

https://mdtech.casady.org/lessons/identity-collage

Content Source:

Other
Casady Digital and Media Literacy
Type: Learning Activity

Overview:

In this learning activity, students will create a media collage using images and text boxes on a shared Google Slideshow, letting others in our class learn a little more about each student. The slideshow will include all students and they will have to practice good digital citizenship while completing their slides. 

Content Standard(s):
Arts Education
ARTS (2017)
Grade: 5
Media Arts
1) Present original ideas and innovations for media arts products, utilizing personal experiences and/or the work of others.

Unpacked Content
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standards:
Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
Process Components: Conceive
Essential Questions:
EU: Media arts ideas, works, and processes are shaped by the imagination, creative processes, and by experiences, both within and outside of the arts.
EQ: How do media artists generate ideas? How can ideas for media arts productions be formed and developed to be effective and original?
Concepts & Vocabulary:
Original
  • Synthesize
  • Innovation
Proposal
  • Concept
  • Action Plan
  • Materials List
  • Roles/ Team Needed
Design
Purpose
  • Persuade
  • Discredit
Meaning
  • Subtext
  • Connotation vs. Denotation
Principles
  • Emphasis
  • Exaggeration
Skill Examples:
  • Brainstorm with a group and list many, varied, and unusual ideas for a class media arts project. Use a storyboard to capture and organize ideas to advertise a product in a new way with a new message.
  • In a group and after brainstorming choose one idea and create a plan and/or model for a media arts production that meets the group's artistic goals based on the elements of design. Challenge the model by getting feedback from classmates and revise the storyboard to better communicate to the audience.
  • After researching choose many and varied images for a media arts production that convey a chosen purpose. Images and sounds will use emphasis and exaggeration.
  • Refine a media arts project from feedback to get a specific audience reaction, communicating through metaphor and symbolism.
Arts Education
ARTS (2017)
Grade: 5
Media Arts
3) Design and combine components to express purpose and meaning in a variety of media arts productions, utilizing sets of associated principles.

a. Use emphasis and exaggeration.

Example: Photograph the transition of a portrait, using caricature to change facial features demonstrating emphasis and exaggeration.

Unpacked Content
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standards:
Anchor Standard 3: Refine and complete artistic work.
Process Components: Construct
Essential Questions:
EU: The forming, integration, and refinement of aesthetic components, principles and processes creates purpose, meaning and artistic quality in media artwork.
EQ: What is required to produce a media artwork that conveys purpose, meaning, and artistic quality? How do media artists improve/refine their work?
Concepts & Vocabulary:
Original
  • Synthesize
  • Innovation
Proposal
  • Concept
  • Action Plan
  • Materials List
  • Roles/ Team Needed
Design
Purpose
  • Persuade
  • Discredit
Meaning
  • Subtext
  • Connotation vs. Denotation
Principles
  • Emphasis
  • Exaggeration
Skill Examples:
  • Brainstorm with a group and list many, varied, and unusual ideas for a class media arts project. Use a storyboard to capture and organize ideas to advertise a product in a new way with a new message.
  • In a group and after brainstorming choose one idea and create a plan and/or model for a media arts production that meets the group's artistic goals based on the elements of design. Challenge the model by getting feedback from classmates and revise the storyboard to better communicate to the audience.
  • After researching choose many and varied images for a media arts production that convey a chosen purpose. Images and sounds will use emphasis and exaggeration.
  • Refine a media arts project from feedback to get a specific audience reaction, communicating through metaphor and symbolism.
Arts Education
ARTS (2017)
Grade: 5
Media Arts
18) Examine, discuss, and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering ethics, rules and media literacy.

Unpacked Content
Artistic Process: Connecting
Anchor Standards:
Anchor Standard 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
Process Components: Relate
Essential Questions:
EU: Media artworks and ideas are better understood and produced by relating them to their purposes, values, and various contexts.
EQ: How does media arts relate to its various contexts, purposes, and values? How does investigating these relationships inform and deepen the media artist's understanding and work?
Concepts & Vocabulary:
Resources
  • internal
  • external
Culture
  • society
  • values
Research
  • question
  • compare information
  • cause and effect
Ethics
  • fair
  • prudent
  • law
Skill Examples:
  • Combine two art forms to describe a memory of a news event along with research about the event into media arts product and show effect on culture.
  • Share with the class a favorite media arts production (i.e., YouTube video, etc.), and include the meaning and message of the event along with its effect on culture at large, specifically through changing daily language and behavior.
  • Through teacher-led discussion and by responding to questions, describe how media arts productions experienced everyday are part of the school community and affect family life.
  • Cite sources in any media arts products using APA Style and forecast the possible interpretations and reactions to media arts products.
Tags: collage, Google Slides, images, slideshow, text
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Author: Tiffani Stricklin
Alabama State Department of Education