Visual+E-Journal+Assignment+Using+Hands-On+Materials

=**Wiki Assignment #3 - Visual/E-Journal Assignment Using Hands-On Materials (50 points)**= Journals, diaries, and logs are written and visual records of student’s ideas, reflections, experiences, explorations, notes, studies, replies to teacher’s questions, and statements on goals and objectives. Student journals are useful as both teaching and assessing tools. For the next assignment you will need to watch the YouTube Handmade Visual Journals Demonstrations below. See instructions below the videos so you will know how you will use these videos for your assignment. .While incorporating some of the info. you viewed from the videos, choose one of the five "Suggested Visual Journal Page Ideas" assignments below and create a series of at least four visual journal pages with art materials, scan in the pages and upload them to your wiki. You should use at least one material that you saw in one of the YouTube demonstrations. A.C. Moore or Michael's Arts & Crafts (both at the Millcreek Mall) carry a range of supplies. [| VJ_Assign_Ideas.doc]** Don't forget to scan and embed it into your wiki (there is a scanner outside the Docucenter and they will also do it for you if you need help). Don't forget to answer these questions (which should be posted on your wiki about the assignment): 1. What was the process you used to create the pages? 2. What did you learn? 3. What possible resources you will use in the future related to what you have explored? 4. How does what you created (and the process you used) connect to your understanding about Aesthetic Education? 5. What specific connections do you see between what you did with the visual journals and the course readings, real life and the future? = = =Journal Idea #2 Blues Music Collage  = What do you think of when you think of Blues music? Spend some time researching images associated with Blues music. Create photocopies of the images you find and alter them in some way (i.e. changing the lightness/darkness on the copier, reducing and enlarging them, cutting them in different ways, and drawing, painting, or using other things on top of them, etc.). Create a collage on **__at least 4 journal pages__**. Choose at least one Blues artist to listen to as you work on the next part of this exploratory assignment. Next, incorporate color into your collage. What colors would you choose? How would those colors express the music that you are hearing? How might color be used to emphasize the mood and style of the artist and the imagery? What are the most significant parts of your collage? How might you emphasize that part’s importance?
 * (Due 10/29/08)**
 * Visual Journal Page Ideas: