Creating a Visual Arts Visual Culture Online Learning Course:

From Theory to Research to Practice

John Krenik Walden University

NAEA March, 30? 2014

Creating an 8th Grade Online Visual Culture Course

Based on Theory Contemporary

Research

Social and

Realistic Thinking Technology

Implement

Theory Informs Mission

• Informs organization

• Structure of mission

• Educational objectives

• Communication via technologies

• Problem solving

• Attention

Conceptualizing and Thinking through Social Interaction

Social interaction

• students

• teachers

Thinking

• context

• Meaning

• Problem-solving

Conceptualizing

• questions

• Connections

• abstract

Social Learning and Thinking

Encultration

Social Context

Situated

Art and Technology for Online Learning

• aRt is the fourth “R”

• Storytelling

• “art hates to follow”

• Art & digital age

Web Text

• Technologically advanced

• Story telling

• Digital art

• Collage

• Spacing

• Blocks of text

Communication through Art and Digital Storytelling

• Constant change

• Conflict resolution via imovie/movie maker

• Higher level thinking

• Copyrights

• Create/manage/produce

The Importance of Art Integration

• Media

• Web pages/powerpoint

• Images/diagrams/sound/motion

• Skills transfer to job market

Social Cultures, Social Learning and Collaboration

• Social networking

• Online learning situations

• Distance learning communities

• Social learning

• Collaboration

Social Interaction and Learning

• Social networking

• Ambiguous problems

• Authentic learning

• Fluid culture of community

Collaboration and Problem Solving

• Zone of proximal development

• Ambiguouse problems

• Collective problem solving

• Art/emotion

• Authentic learning environments

Online Learning Research

• Socialization

• Organizational process

• 20% to 62% of middle schools

• 75% of 12 year olds use cell phones

Reasons Underlying the Surge in Online Middle School Learning

• Prepare for future emergency

disasters

• Physical, psychological, and learning disabilities

• Discriminatory and class factors

• Open system of blackboards

• Meets student needs

Beneficial Outcomes and Positive Social Change in Learning

• Positive social changes

• Constructivist social learning context

• Social technologically advanced generation

• Flexibility, independence

• Online galleries

• Wiki sites

• Long-term memory

Considerations for Creating an Online Middle School Visual Art Course

• Purchase/lease/customizing

• Self discipline/motivation

• Plagiarism-turnitin

• Time-energy

• Angel/moodle/blackboard/other

Making online learning Multi-modal for Middle School Students

• Multiple technologies

• SMS/RSS/text/twitter/instagram

• YouTube/webconferencing/avatars

• Adobe Connect Pro platform

• SitePal speaking avatars and Voki avatars

Cognitive Benefits of Online Learning for Middle School Students

• Authentic collaborative constructivist

projects

• self-directed, student centered constructivist learning environments

• Zone of Proximal Development

• Interactive

• Increases collaborative discussions and critical thinking

8th grade course: The Influence of Visual Culture in Web Design

• 9 week course

• 6 lessons in each week

• Mission statement formed skeletal framework

Ohler’s Framework for Managing Online Environments

• A special situation

• Use many communication venues

• Multimodal approach

• Great variety of media

• Use metaphors

• Use social setting metaphors

• Require collaboration

• Story telling

21st Century Literacy Skills

• Synthesize new information in new situations

• Proficiency in media and web literacy

• Critical analysis for communicating

Visual Culture

• Visual experience in everyday life

• New forms of art on the web

• Micro messages embedded in visuals

Situated Learning/Authentic Learning

• Students make internal connections

• Authentic activity, culture and concept

• Confident automatous learning

• Ill-defined and deepened problems

• Video conferencing

• File sharing; videos, websites, and pictures

Course Framework

• 9 week course

• 6 lessons per week include: – Essential questions

– Discussion posts

– Research

– Collaboration

– Projects

– Digital galleries

– Critiques

9 Week Schedule Week Essential

Questions

Discussion posts

Research Collabo-ration

Projects Digital Galleries

Critiques

1 How are social environ-ments influenced by digital visual culture?

Respond to at least 2 of your class-mates’ postings of their answers to the essential question

Digital Web design

Intro to the class and peer art and person-ality

Create Web Design with Visual Culture Literacy

digital web page collage

web pages you think are well designed aesthetic-ly & Critique a class-mate’s digital web page

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

Weekly Schedule

Week 1

Essential Questions

Discussion posts Board den

Research Collabo-ration

Projects Digital Galleries

Critique Board

Monday Day 1

x X X x

Tuesday Day 2

x x x

Wednesday

Day 3 x x x x x

Thursday Day 4

x x x

Friday Day 5

x xxx x x

Saturday Day 6

x x

Weekly Schedule

Week 8

Essential Questions

Discussion posts Board den

Research Collabo-ration

Projects Digital Galleries

Critique Board

Monday Day 1

x X X x

Tuesday Day 2

x x x

Wednesday

Day 3 x x x x x

Thursday Day 4

x x x

Friday Day 5

x xxx x x

Saturday Day 6

x x

Visual Culture Projects

• Web design

• Animation

• Collage

• Digital story telling

• Self & group evaluations

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