1. Blog Profiles: Creating Original Avatars Roosevelt Middle School Michelle Brower, PDRT Liz Feeney-Hunt, Title I/ELA Dept Head Carol Chaloux, TIS

2. Cisco-Smithsonian American Art Museum-Jefferson Parish Public School System Teacher Institute 2009 Lesson Plan Template: Interdisciplinary Teams Title: Blog Profiles: Creating Original Avatars Content and Substance: To enhance student’s ability to understand visual literacy in connection with portraits from American Artist. Students will be able to compare/contrast portraits using visual vocabulary Students will be able to create a podcast to enhance their original profile image Standards: ELA7-M2 –Use tech. information and other avail. Resources to solve problems 6-M2 – Compare/Contrast elements in multiple genres 2-M5 – Write for a wide variety of purposes 5-M1 – Locate/Select info using organizational features of grade appropriate resources Grade Level / Subjects: 6-8 All Content Areas Art Images / Resources Required: Artwork: Somewhere in America & Junior Wells Technology Components: Video Conference entitled Visual Literacy “To See Is to Think” Podcast, Image Manipulating Software Background: Students should have a basic knowledge of podcasting and power point or Photoshop Organization of Knowledge: 1. Background Knowledge - Viewing of Mult-Cultural Portraits 2.Video Conferencing – “To See Is To Think” 3.Analyze two portraits – Somewhere in America & Junior Wells 4.Create their image for their blog profile 5.Podcast Protection from Adverse Consequence: Work in Partners, Time line schedule, Rubric Clear and Compelling Product Standards: Rubric, Assess to Internet Blog, Handouts, Samples of Acceptable Images Affirmation of Performance: Students images will be posted on classroom blog to be shared with school Choice: Work with a partner, use of materials to create own image other than technology to be photographed and downloaded. Affiliation: Students will be apart of an educational community to be shared throughout the year with comments and assessments.

3. Ms. Roosevelt’s Introduction

4. Step one Building background knowledge: Handout Art Analysis Process

6. Video Conference Visual Literacy: “To See is to Think” http://americanart.si.edu/education/tours/video/ http://americanart.si.edu/education/tours/video/ National Standards http://americanart.si.edu/education/pdf/looking_standards.pdf Step two

7. Step three Compare and contrast

8. Somewhere in America 1934 Robert Brackman Born: Odessa, Russia 1898 Died: New London, Connecticut 1980 oil on canvas 30 1/8 x 25 1/8 in. (76.5 x 63.9 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Transfer from the U.S. Department of Labor 1964.1.75 Smithsonian American Art Museum 1st Floor, West Wing Junior Wells 1989 Frederick Brown Born: Greensboro, Georgia 1945 oil on linen 36 x 30 in. (91.4 x 76.2 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Museum purchase made possible by William Cost Johnson, George W. Story, Robert J. Oliver and Mrs. Barwig-Wagner 1990.31 Not currently on view eye of the soul

9. Step four: Time to create. You must incorporate or more representations of you. You may use non tech mediums: pencils, pens, crayons clay which we can digitize and upload to your blog, or you may use PowerPoint or any photo editing software. 3 (three)

10. Remember Cyber safety: Avatars will contain no names/addresses/phone numbers/other identifying details. If you use your face it must be digitally altered to be unrecognizable.

11. http://media.photobucket.com/image/blog%20profile%20photos/Sydney_Cullen/layouts% 20and%20templates/voguelayout-needscoding.png Examples

12. Step five You have your Avatar. Now with your best visual grammar explain your avatar. Justify the visual synthesis of your image. Write a script for your podcast. Final product will include uploading of image and podcast.