Virtual Lab Projects are offered in an asynchronous virtual module format through Brightspace, allowing students the flexibility to opt in to their choice of project(s) at the time of their choice.
By opting in to a Virtual Lab Project students can make up missed face-to-face hours, and/or can earn additional hours beyond their face-to-face Extended Day Schedule.
For the 2021-2022 school year, there are thirty virtual lab modules per project between September and May.
In order to request enrollment into a Virtual Lab Project's Brightspace, use the VIRTUAL LAB REQUEST FORM below. You must request enrollment to Virtual Lab Projects. Once you are enrolled in the Brightspace for any virtual lab projects, you will remain enrolled until you request to be removed, using the same form.
Each module is open from Wednesday through Saturday. In order to be considered for credit hours, work must be turned in by 11:59pm on Saturday. Assignments cannot be accepted after that time for credit. Successful and timely completion of any module is equal to 2 hours of Extended Day credit.
Students can opt to engage in any number of asynchronous projects sporadically, but are only permitted to complete the current week's module (assignment). Module timelines are listed below.
Mentor: Emily Karol
Contact: ekgerbasi@aacps.orgBrightspace Virtual Lab
All primes welcome.
“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.” – Henry David Thoreau
Adventure from Home will take artists on mini adventures through their surrounding worlds with unique prompts and scavenger hunts specific to the season. This is a chance to find moments of happiness and peace in a world that still feels chaotic... and to get some fresh air.
Documentation of activities will be required through original photos/videos and brief reflection and/or review.
Mentor: Maggie Heemstra
Contact: mbenshaw@aacps.orgBrightspace Virtual Lab
All primes welcome.
Regardless of the type of artist you are, maintaining your creativity can sometimes prove to be a real challenge. A journal is an excellent tool you can use to keep your creativity alive. Learn and understand the art of creative journaling - using visuals, colors, images, patterns, words, and writing prompts in order to create an outlet for your creative thoughts and ideas. The journal can help you practice and refine your skills, can function as a sketchbook, notebook, scrapbook or day planner. It’s ideal for brainstorming ideas. It can also help silence your inner critic. There are no rules or limits. There’s no wrong thing to write, plan or draw. It’s a safe space where your creativity can flow without being judged. And, it can also be used as a healthy, expressive outlet. In this project, you will receive prompts, ideas and feedback through our virtual lab.
Mentor: Selin Balci
Contact: sbalci@aacps.orgBrightspace Virtual Lab, beginning in the Spring Trimester (March 2)
All primes welcome.
This course allows you to explore digital storytelling: taking photos, filming, editing, and sharing. Through detailed tutorials, topic-specific projects and brainstorming, students will develop an understanding of at-home movie making possibilities. Students will explore writing a script and telling their stories through images, video, audio, and music. Digital storytelling can be used to bring students’ interests and cultures into the classroom while encouraging them to write nonfiction text. Students can create a digital story that tells about their family’s holiday traditions, their favorite college football team, or their rock collection.
Students must have access to a device with video-recording capabilities (smartphone, tablet, DSLR camera, camcorder) and a video editing program (WeVideo, iMovie, etc).
Mentor: Lukas MacKinney
Contact: lmackinney@aacps.orgBrightspace Virtual Lab
All primes welcome.
This course seeks to create a collaborative digital tapestry out of a diverse patchwork of smaller works. Students will add to an ever-growing digital quilt by contributing of squares to “stitch” with those of their peers. Each student may create as many quadrants as they would like, spending a week on each “patch” they decide to contribute. Each square will be of equal dimensions, but students are encouraged to consider how their own patch fits in its surrounding landscape and link it to adjacent squares to create continuous motifs. Visual art of all forms is welcome, including photography, illustration, video (soundless), and collage.
Mentor: Shoshana Schlauderaff
Contact: sschlauderaff@aacps.orgBrightspace Virtual Lab
All primes welcome.
Mindfulness is the ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around us. While mindfulness is innate, it can be cultivated through proven techniques. When we’re mindful, we reduce stress, enhance performance, gain insight and awareness through observing our own mind, and increase our attention to others’ well being. Mindfulness meditation gives us a time in our lives when we can suspend judgment and unleash curiosity about the workings of the mind, approaching our experience with warmth and kindness - to ourselves and others. In this project, artists will be sent meditations and prompts to inspire and make art. Responses can be choreographed, written, drawn, sewn, sung, played, filmed, recorded, etc. Anything that inspires you! Success skills include mindfulness and self awareness, therapeutic artmaking, self-compassion through art, creative interpretation.
Each module is open from Wednesday through Saturday. In order to be considered for credit hours, work must be turned in by 11:59pm on Saturday. Assignments cannot be accepted after that time for credit. Successful and timely completion of any module is equal to 2 hours of Extended Day credit.
See the image below for the Virtual Lab Project Modules Calendar.
