GoGo Culture Time Keeper

This is the finished Time Keeper, based on my sketches below, made out of a cylindrical metal can with lid. The black small patch on the front covers the pinhole that will make the can a camera. The spiral of clay is the time keeper and it infinitely spins and keeps track, month per month, of where we are on earth. Here are pictures in progress,

Time Keeper Conceptual Sketch

This is a sketch for my Time Keeper for my culture and social problem. My culture is the GoGos culture. These are tiny plastic collectibles I had in my house left over from my kids when they were young. There is a little GoGo on top of my time keeper. No two GoGos are alike. I have about 150 of them. I thought these would make a good culture for my project since they represent multiculturalism. This time keeper is a pinhole camera that will be set out at my house for two or three weeks with photo paper inside, capturing all that takes place in my yard night and day.

Plastic Pollution Monster

This is my monster I created from my sketch for my Social Problem, which is Plastic Pollution. It is composed of plastic water bottles, straws, yogurt container, plastic bottle caps, beverage rings, plastic bags, sand and wire, as well as sea creature charms which are engulfed in the garbage. This is a display of plastic trash which is harming our oceans. It is a personified monster. It is assembled with wire and hot glue. Here are pictures of the materials.

Storyboard for Plastic Pollution StopMotion Animated Movie

This is my story board for my two minute video on Plastic Pollution.

Sketchbook: Meadowlark Gardens Collection

Our sketchbook assignment was to go on a walk and find a collection of things and tell how they are related. My collection was not something you could put in your pocket. It was a collection of objects I found, big or small, as I walked through the park. The connections they had were that they all belonged to the park and they had similar colors of green, red and yellow.

Social Problem Monster Conceptual Sketch: Plastic Pollution

This is my envisioned monster for the plastic pollution problem we have here on earth. The monster ingests sea life which harms and kills sea animals such as sea horses, dolphins, sea turtles, conchs, scallops, and all kinds of fish. The monster is made from a variety of plastic debris found in our oceans like water bottles, straws, beverage can rings, and yogurt containers.

Sketchbook Assignment: Blackout Poem

We were given by our professor a few pages of text and were asked to block out portions of it with only selected words showing to make a Blackout Poem. I had never attempted anything like this before and found it challenging, thought provoking, and very fun!

Sketchbook Assignment: Sketch of My Favorite Place

My favorite place is in the Town of Vienna where I live. It is called the Vienna Inn, and it is a hole in the wall, cheap eats place that has great food, good selection of beer, and friendly service. I go there at least two times a week!

Media Dialogic and Reflection for 501 Literacy Course

Media Dialogic and Reflection

By Lisa Eaton

February 17, 2020

For Education 501 Literacy Course

I am basing my reflection on the comment my professor left for me in the Class 2 assignment journal entry for comments on reading Developing Readers in the Academic Disciplines. I am so glad she gave feedback on Disciplinary Literacy in a clear and precise way because it made it sink in for me. She stated that “In general, disciplinary literacy includes the ways of communicating (including reading, writing, thinking, speaking, listening, viewing, and visually representing) that are unique to a particular discipline. In particular, it focuses on the thinking, skills and tools experts within a discipline routinely use.”  This was very helpful to me in defining what we mean by Disciplinary Literacy. It was short and sweet which I like.

            In creating my visual piece, the word that stuck out to me in this assignment instructions was “sensory”. My media representation is visual because I am a visual arts major. My piece illustrates sensory intake and outtake, such as seeing, speaking, listening, and thinking. What goes in comes out. I included reading with a book, writing with a pen, some typed text and an image of a cell phone for technology. There is an artist’s paint brush and palette for my discipline, although now in my coursework I am finding how much technology is involved in my discipline. It is not just traditional drawing, painting and sculpture. I even included some musical notes for listening.

K-12 students are exposed to sensory entities every day, like advertisements, smells, sounds and temperature. They are bombarded with visual images, especially with cell phones, laptops and tablets being used so frequently with the internet. I think a teacher’s role is to make sense of all of this in our world and communicate with students about how to think of how to most efficiently use this sensory information to better our world and better our lives. This is what it means to me to be literate in a certain discipline. The teacher’s role is to facilitate the understanding of all that students are bombarded with on a daily basis. This facilitation is involved in teaching and learning different disciplinary subjects.

In my field work the teacher is crossing over into STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math). She says her Art class overlaps with the other subjects and she even has a separate room that her students go to outside of her traditional studio Art class that is called the STEAM room. This is in elementary school.  As an elementary Art teacher, I will have to communicate literacy across these disciplines, especially with Technology.

My image demonstrates my growing knowledge of Disciplinary Literacy because it represents the sensory aspects that a student experiences when learning to become literate in certain disciplines. It involves my discipline of the Arts. It involves technology. It represents the communication and movement of information within an individual when thinking and learning about a certain discipline and crossing over to other disciplines.

StopMotion Video on Plastic Pollution

Press the play button to watch a neat StopMotion movie!

This is a two minute video using the StopMotion movie making app. This was an independent project relating to our imaginary culture and social problem needing to be solved in our 3D Art course. Here are photos during production:

First StopMotion Experiment

This is a first StopMotion short film that my classmates Sarah, Hannah and I created as an experiment in 10 minutes in class. Our professor wanted us to get a feel for working with the app before creating our own individual movies. We had all kinds of supplies to work with in the GMU Art Think Tank room, including the artist moveable human figure form and sheet. We used my iPhone to capture the film. We had to think through each step frame by frame, beginning to end.