Monthly Archives: April 2015

Exhibition

My art education class has been working on an exhibition which illustrates issues of racism. This exhibition can be found at http://cyberhouse.arted.psu.edu/322/exhibition.html

My personal curatorial choices can be viewed at: psu.voicethread.com/#create/6728571

Curator Statement:

This collection of work sheds light on the issues of racism. All of these works illustrate that we must look deeper than simply judging people based on the way they appear. In each clip someone is being judged based on their outward nature, these films help show how ridiculous these judgments truly are. Do not be ignorant, we are all people, we all deserve equal respect.

 Questions to consider when viewing these videosFind cards:

1.) Find an aspect of this artwork that makes you feel angry? What was it that made you feel a type of anger? Why do you think it made you feel this way?

2.) Find something in these videos that made you feel proud? what made you feel a sense of pride? Why do you think you had this reaction?

 

 

 

WeVideo

I have been exploring many different technologies that are new to me, such as Lino, Wix, Sound Cloud, Music Maker Jam, Garageband, Photoshop, This Penn State blogging site, and iMovie. All of these sites have played an important role in allowing me to feel comfortable exploring new technologies that I may be unfamiliar with. This new found comfort around technology is what caused me to discover one app in particular that I instantly fell in love with, WeVideo. This app inspires me to post on technology sites that I am more familiar with, such as Facebook and YouTube, sites that up until now, with the discovery of WeVideo, I never really had products that I wanted to upload. This is what the app WeVideo looks like.

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I absolutely love this app because it is easy and fun to use right from your phone and the best part is, it’s free! I am obsessed with this app because I have an Android; finding great, free, video apps is almost impossible to come by for those of us with Androids.

This app is so wonderful because all of your photos, videos, and music that are on your phone automatically transfer over to WeVideo. This is such a convenience, no extra time trying to download photos and music. This app is so quick and easy to use. This is what it looks like when you are inside the app.

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The above images are the images or videos you have chosen to include within your final video. The images under that are images or videos that you have taken with your phone. To put an image or video within your creation all you have to do is drag it into the placement you want it to be between, before, or after your other clips and photos. Once you have done this you have the option of clipping your video or increasing or decreasing the amount of time you want each photo to be up within the final video. To do this you simply click on the photo you want to change and go under the Trim tab, which can be seen below. So simple!

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Within this app you also have the ability to add text onto each clip, yet again by simply clicking on the image you want to include text within and going under the Caption tab.

You also have complete control over the volume you want your full video, or individual clips to be. For instance if you use a video clip, you can turn the volume down, up, or completely off of the clip so that your other music throughout the whole video can be heard or the sound for that particular clip can be heard. To do this, yet again you simply click on the clip and go to the Volume tab.

As for the music, if you choose to have any throughout your video, you can also decide the volume control for that simply by clicking on the Unknown  Which is right on the main screen.

The music options for this app are wonderful, not only do you have access to all of the music on your phone, but the app also provides free music that goes along with each theme you can choose from to add to your video. this theme does not only provide free music, if you choose to use theirs, but it also adds a unique quality to your video as a whole. There are many themes to choose from, as seen in the image below.

wevideo-themes-1 The themes include simple, icy blast, fashonista, sweet flare, and so on. The free music within each theme goes along perfectly with the theme, which i found pretty neat.

When it comes to music, the other great thing about this app is that it goes along great with other music making apps. For instance I used the music app Music Maker Jam, which I also highly recommend, and once i made a song on their, it was instantly under audio options within WeVideo without having to do a single thing. I was so impressed and relieved by this factor.

I absolutely love this app and can not say enough how much I recommend its use. I already made two videos using this app, and am currently working on another one. Here is one of my videos I created using this app along with Music Maker Jam. 

I think that this technology would be great to use within art education because it was such a fun and easy app for me to use. I know that video production, as confirmed by all the YouTube videos and kids obsession with making snapchat videos, is huge for kids nowadays and very intriguing to them. In sharing this app with students you would provide them with a great resource to produce videos.

The other wonderful aspect about this app is how easy it is to share your video with YouTube and Facebook all for free.

This app could also prove extremely valuable within art education when focusing on stop animation. Since this video allows the use of pictures from your phone, and offers how long you want each image to be viewed, i feel like it would be the perfect app for stop motion beginners.

Even in creating music videos, this would be the perfect app, since it allows you to bring in the music of your choice and it allows you to clip and add different videos together. This app is also great because it allows you to view your piece as often as you wish. You simply press the play button.

I would love to incorporate tis app within my classroom, especially since now a days almost every kid past the age of 12 has a phone, and thus they hold the ability to create.

Diversity

Hello everyone! I made a quick video about diversity. If you want to check it out the link is posted below.

However I wanted to make the rights of ownership a creative commons- attribution but it will not allow me to. If anyone has any advice let me know! Thanks!

I figured it out! Had to make my own music. Let me know what you think of the new version!