Post date: Dec 25, 2013 5:40:36 PM
So, I haven't had much time to figure out an effective way to post pictures of my Comp./Vid./Photo class's work, even though thy're the primary reason for the existence of this website. I thought there'd probably be a good screenshot utility/extension for chrome that'd communicate with Google drive, and after much trial and error I finally found one that was bug and hassle free. The Nimbus screenshot extension is the least number of clicks, click and drag area capture, and it saves directly to a designated drive folder. You would be surprised how many of the extensions were just plain buggy or seemingly ill designed, including the Google created one.
Without further ado I'm going to post in quick succession some of this semesters more successful digital work, and some raw inverted negatives that the wet photography students took with Mr. Degraw our adjunct wet photography teacher.
This project was their first digital artwork, it introduced them to the pencil tool, vectors, how to create and save files and upload them to the Drive. They're pretty simple and that's exactly the expectation that I set. This class, out of all the classes I taught this year, was by far my most successful. For some reason, the way I set it up, just seemed to work, I got excellent results out of everyone. Setting everything up digitally, allowing students to just progress through a set of simple, logical scaffolded projects, just worked, everyone with the exception of the slower workers, seemed to just keep pace with a basic knowledge of the software. In all honesty the only thing that'd make it better would be simply to let slower and faster students progress at their own pace, I do not have the system specifically set up for that, in that students still subscribe to a A, B, C letter grade system, but if I had it in tiers It'd probably work. Projects like this are few and far between, as we get going you'll notice certain student's work show up less and less simply because they need more time for polish. While that's understandable, the way the system is set up, they don't have time to dawdle and learn at their own pace, as harsh as that sounds.