Final Thoughts

AEAH 3750

Had an amazing expeience learning so many wonderful Art/Craft lessons. I was able to explore once again my drawring techniques and was able to use my imagination with all my projectst that I produced throughout the semester.

The project that I enjoy working on the most were the Black and White drawing, Lady-Bug and the Paper Mache. Even though, all three projects took a while to complete. At the end, it was all worth working for.

Most definitly, I will plan to use the activites with my future students. Art is what makes a child express him/her emotions. Nontheless, having fun and painting is the whole part of their learning process.

Furthermore, this class was such a great class!!! Will be missed but most importantly, I give thanks to Ms. Harris for allowing us to learn new and fun things.

Molly from the Comfy Couch (Puppet)

Molly

This is Molly, made out of Paper Mache. At first I didn't know where to start from. So I began to experiement. I painted her face, arms, and nose first. Then i painted the blue. I waiting until it dryed out completely and applied the hair with tied sections. Once the hair was added, I added her eyes and a slight white dot so that the eyes would be defined. Finally, I applied Mod Podge so that the paint wouldn't crack and made her shiny. The last picture as you can see is the end result of my puppet.

Black and White

This image is a live drawing that I did at my aunts restroom. As you can see there is detail on the shading so that each piece can be defined according to how the light is reflecting. Took quiet a while, but it turned out great!

Water-Colors

This was a drawing that I did, experimenting with water-colors. Based on an artist named Wassily Kadnisky.  I constructed my paintings with different symbols and shapes so that it would look different. It was really fun!

Lady-Bug made with Tissue Paper

This Lady-Bug was inspired by Eric Carle...

What I did was, I painted different patterns onto tissue paper and made it colorful.

Subsequent to that, I drew a simple outline of a Lady-Bug.

Then, I cut out the tissue paper and pasted inside the lady bug to make it decorative.

Soon after I pasted the tissue paper, i began to paint to outside so that the picture would not look tooooo simple. So i added some grass, birds, and the sun.

Overall, this project was a great experience and I had lots of fun.

THEN!!!!!

with the remaining of the paint... I decided to add Aloe trees =)

Matisse Art Work

This is an Art work that i created, this is called a "Matisse" . This master piece took me a quite a while to complete because i had to focus on the line structures and how to develop an uneven look so that it would seem as if everything was structured the right way. Every piece of the the shapes as you can see they were uneven and overlapped through the different tissue color. It was quite a challenge but got it done in one piece =)

Cyberbullying & Sexting

There was a workshop presentation that was held at UNT-DALLAS  based on CYBERBULLYING AND SEXTING. Which are the most important factors in todays society, especially when dealing with children around the world.  The presentation was mainly focused on the cases of students who had been either bullied or damaged emotionally through texting. The presentation made me realize that if we as future educator don't make a difference now in today's society then all children will be physically, emotionally, and socially, and mentally destroyed.  

The scenario that I chose to write my report on was on a high school student whom suffered from bullying from students of his own school grade level. I feel that the bullying could have been prevented if only the parents were more involved and attend to his child's needs. However, looking back if i was Tom's dad/mom i would have been very well involved and actually taking the time to figure out if everything was okay. Even, if it was the simplest thing, but in my mind I would have known that everything was right. On the other hand, I believe that the school should have done something about it, rather to just let the student bully him knowing that he didn't have any faults. The school sure failed its responsibilities because they weren't aware of what was going on in Tom's life or educational life.

Now that this has happened, there are many ways to prevent children from being cyberbullied. As teachers and parents we must discourage our students/child from responding to cyberbullying. They tend to crave attention, etc. Also, monitor the their computer time even if they say they are "playing online games". Especially when having a big range of students in a classroom it is a great idea to create big poster boards saying why or how children are emotionally hurt through bullies. Then, we can also have a role play with students so that they can see that bullying is not a good thing, rather it makes people feel less of a persona and can scar them for life. 

That being said, we must implement the fact that we as future teacher must be on the alert and become self involved in our students life because when we finally do; we might be to late...