Ele
e - Portfolios
For
Standards Based Art & Technolgy
Assessment
& Evaluation
Overview: Over the course of the school
year, students will carefully select
examples of their ceramic work and take digital photographs of
their work, in order to create an e-Portfolio that describes
a minimum of three original works and an area of concentration
of art as a culminating project in an Advanced Ceramics course.
The e-Portfolios for Standards Based Art and Technology
Assessment and Evaluation project is aligned with the California
Content Standards for Visual Arts, the International Society
for Technology in Education and the National Educational Technology
Standards (ISTE/NETS). The e-Portfolio is virtually a
collection of student's ceramic work designed to showcase what
students know and can do over an extended period of time. It is not intended to replace
the original artwork of a traditional portfolio, but is instead
a method of developing those documents in a concise and presentable
manner that can be easily updated or transmitted electronically.
Many educational institutions as well as employers, review portfolios
to gain insight into the candidate's academic, artistic, or personal
qualities. Students
interested in admission to college or scholarship consideration
should check with the portfolio requirements with the college
of their choice.
Students will:
Develop
a body of ceramic work over the course of a school year that
includes an area of concentration, a number of conceptually
related works unified by an underlying idea or theme.
Select
three or more original artworks and discuss the use of
media and intent of the work using the appropriate vocabulary
of art
Analyze
the quality and success of their works according to the elements
of art, the principles of design, and aesthetic qualities
Create
a multimedia presentation that includes the integration
of media objects such as digital images, text, graphics, video,
animation, and sound to represent and convey information for
a variety of purposes (e.g., college admission, scholarship or
job application, personal collection)
Optional
Extra Credit: You may also include additional work in any
media (drawings, paintings, poetry, sculpture, videotapes,
sketchbooks, design projects, short stories, photography, etc.),
from a class project or self-directed that represents significant
achievements.
Your e-Portfolio
is simply a collection of your very best artwork.
Getting Started Each student will select at least
two pieces of their best ceramic work and discuss their
selections with a group of their peers. For best results students
may photograph the work using digital camera in class.
Multimedia Project:
Students will
produce a multimedia presentation and objectively describe three
or more of their ceramics pieces of art in a professional manner,
considering your needs and the target audience
(peers, parents, job market, and college admissions).
Once you have photographed
the work and created the slides for your multimedia presentation,
you are ready to produce your show. During the production phase,
you attend to details such as the following:
Slides: The chief building block of
the multimedia presentation is the slide. This is an individual
screen containing a combination of multimedia objects. Objects
are digital files that are embedded-contained within-a larger
file. Sound, image, and animation files are all potential objects
in a presentation.
Transitions: Transition are special effects
between slides that ad visual interest to your show such as "wipes",
transitions include "dissolve" (one slide fading into
another) and "explode" (a slide appearing to burst
apart, revealing the next). For best results avoid transitions
with sounds!
Timing: This is the amount of time any
given slide appears on the screen. Timing is one of the most
important aspects of a multimedia presentation. If sides change
too quickly, your views will not have a change to appreciate
each artwork fully. If a slide appears on the screen too long,
the presentation may drag.
Peer Conferences:
You will meet
with a classmate or a group of classmates and talk about your
work. Students should share their work and tell the truth, because
that is the only way you can help each other.
Write down one thing you liked about his/her e-portfolio
Write down one thing that might be improved. What suggestions
can you offer to improve the work?
Questions for Discussion:
What else can
you think of that you would like to include in your e-portfolio?
Does the Multimedia presentations
blend 3 media objects (text, graphics, video, animation or sound)
in an easy to follow format?
Do most elements contribute
rather that detract from the presentation's overall effectiveness?
Do the sounds enhance
or distrct detract from the presentation's overall effectiveness?
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