2015 Award Winners

The Most Amazing Things

Jane Martellino

Region 15

Let them create! This was my simple yet empowering motto this school year. I had to think outside of the box in supporting students in a new flexible schedule, so I offered an enrichment class during LA block to 5th graders. While we only met twice a week for 25 minute periods, the students were able to accomplish great things. The students brainstormed ways they could celebrate the activities and interests within our school community. The students decided they wanted to use our new green screening kit with iPads to create a weekly news show which they titled "TMAT" (The Most Amazing Things). The students were responsible for generating ideas, writing scripts, directing, filming, anchoring, creating green screening effects, and merging the segments into one seamless show. The project strengthened students skills in writing for a purpose, integrating technology in meaningful ways, speaking fluently, raising awareness to a variety of causes and charities, and best of all the show strengthened, revitalized, and re-energized the school-wide community.

History of Photography Time Line Series of Walls

Ina Malloy- Amity High School

The main objective of this evolving and interactive timeline for our "History of Photography Time Line Series of Walls" is to enable students to select an artist they would like to research in a unique way. The walls have a horizontal timeline of major global events from 1800’s to current day. Once a student selects an artist from the wall by scanning QR codes on postcards displayed or from my list on my website they create a power point of their selected artists work. They analyze their selected images for visual characteristics from the abundance of lists, including: compositional elements, Principals and Elements of Art and Design, lighting, perspective, subject matter, spatial relationships or other key visually identifiable characteristics. They take photographs and synthesize/manipulate them to have the same Mise-En-Scene or Look and Feel as their artist’s work. Within each Power Point presentation, images are displayed side by side enabling my students to determine what the similarities and differences are in their work verse their artist’s work. Once all connections are collected, students present.