Art of Office Lesson Sequence
June 27-July 8
2010 Student Work
You may watch the "swf" files and PDF online. You will need Office 7+ to properly view the "Twittering Machine" projects. Aanya Portfolio PDF Picture Story Twittering Machine PPSX Mondrian SWF Annalyse Portfolio PDF Picture Story Charag Portfolio PDF Picture Story Twittering Machine PPSX David Portfolio PDF Twittering Machine PPSX Mondrian SWF Jasmine Portfolio PDF Picture Story Twittering Machine PPSX Mondrian SWF Josh Portfolio PDF Picture Story Twittering Machine PPSX Justin Portfolio PDF Picture Story Twittering Machine PPSX Mondrian SWF Michael Portfolio PDF Picture Story Twittering Machine PPSX Mondrian SWF Regina Portfolio PDF Picture Story Twittering Machine PPSX Mondrian SWF Taylor Portfolio PDF Picture Story Twittering Machine PPSX Mondrian SWF Ysabella Portfolio PDF Picture Story Twittering Machine PPSX Mondrian SWF 2011 Teacher Samples: Download Zip File
Word (2 days)
- Intro to Word basics: ribbon-- Home, Insert, Format Menus; Intro to Clip Art
- Formatting and layout of images: exercise and practice PHOTOS & CLIP ART, LAYOUT
- Directions: practice inserting and formatting clip art and changing the layout.
- Clip Art Collage: (layout, transparency, order, effects) Begin with a theme: western, space, fantasy... PHOTOS & CLIP ART, LAYOUT
- Directions: Change page layout to landscape. Cover most of the page with a background clip art that creates a theme. For example, space or a desert. Add photo and/or clip art pictures to go with your theme and use the special effects to make borders and more. Tilt images to create a collage of images.
- Overlapping Circles: Shapes, fills and transparency: Teach Art to Children-- pg. 102 Overlapping collage with transparency of circles in Word. (exercise) DRAW SHAPES & TRANSPARENCY
- Perspective: Intro to 3-D perspective: Teach Art to Children-- space and perspective; vanishing point (exercise) DRAWING 3-D SHAPES
- Example doc
- Directions: insert a horizontal line parallel to the top and bottom of the paper. Place a dot on the horizon line. This is the vanishing point. Draw a rectangle on the page. Use the straight line tool to connect all of the corners to the vanishing point. Trim off part of the lines that connect to the vanishing point to form a 3-D shape. Fill using fill effects.
- Hieroglyphic Cartouche: (sample in T.A.C.) Make a tablet or papyrus parchment background. Then, use the hieroglphic alphabet PNG images (Pictures (Zip) to construct a message in ancient Egyptian. Use the effects to add shadow, color or more to you images. DRAWING
- Example Doc
- Advanced Example (import image; in Office, partly extract bg, apply artistic effects, adjust color, brightness contrast.)
- Hieroglyphic Alphabet (jpg)
- Tablet Image
- Pictures (Zip)
Excel (2 Days)
- Intro to Excel basics: columns, rows, resizing, formatting, navigating, borders
- Pixel Art: Formatting Cells Pixel Art; patterns; retro game characters FORMATTING CELLS
- What is Pixel Art (wikipedia)
- How to create pixel art
- Web sites: Mario | More | Duck Hunt Dog | Megaman (Excel)
- Images: Mario | megaman | Pacman | Pixel People
- Examples: Mona Lisa xls | Maxtrix Digital Rain
- Directions: First create a pattern by formatting rows, columns and cells. Then create a representational art piece like the examples above. Try making retro game characters like Mario or the pixel people, or just make up your own.
Project: Create Pixel Art-- DOWNLOADS (Excel templates): Mario | Megaman | Pacman | Pixel People
Project: Create Digital Rain-- DOWNLOADS Directions | Formula | Example
Project: Chart Art: Charts: Excel: random data forms "chart art" using surface graphs CHARTS
- directions: create 6 columns by 6 rows of identical data (100). Insert a surface chart and delete data labels, etc. Sculpt by increasing or decreasing numbers in data table to create peaks and valleys.
- 2011 Example with directions
- Image Example
- Example xls
PowerPoint (6 days)
- PowerPoint Basics
- Photo slide show: Dorthea Lange; photo sequence (digital pictures in PPT) PHOTO SHOWS
- Directions: Take 15 pictures of something ordinary, real-life event. For example, take a picture of someone playing with a football. Take the pictures to show a sequence of events that tell a story. Here is another example: photo of a cat walking, another of it climbing up on a chair; another of it curling up and another of it falling asleep. Take some pictures farther away than others. Take some close-ups of details. Later, in the lab, select up to 10 pictures to tell the story. Use PowerPoint's photo slides feature to import the pictures from a folder. Then use the slide sort view to put them in order. Create page timings and transitions.
- Steps: working with a partner, decide on an idea. Open a Word document and type up your idea. Next, create a storyboard. Insert a table with 10 rows and 2 columns. In the first, describe the picture you will take; in the second describe the type of shot: extreme close, close, mid, full, wide, special effect clip art, or special effect- artistic effects (in PowerPoint).
- Storyboard Example
- About Dorthea Lange
- Lange Photographs: one | two | three
- Cubi Structure: 3-D Auto Shapes and formatting: David Smith 3-D sculpture; 3-D FORMS IN OFFICE
- Directions: use the 3-D shapes to create a sculpture similar to David Smith's Cubi series. Use the fill-effects to create different materials such as stone or wood. Add a background image to place your sculpture in an outside environment just like David Smith.
- About Cubi Sculpture (wikipedia with image links)
- Images: cubi1 | cubi2 | cubi3 | cubi4 | cubi5
- Mondrian Comes Alive: (songs from pre-selected songs made by me using smartsounds or from Adobe communicator music) DRAWING, ANIMATION AND MUSIC
- About Piet Mondrian
- Discuss the influence of the de stijl movement and modernism in general on art and architecture. Show images examples in Google.
- Directions for Office 10: Use the straight line tool to draw lines that form different sized rectangles together. Draw rectangle shapes without an outline. Fill with red, yellow and blue. Add fill effects if you like. Resize them to fit inside the lines. Use the "order" feature to send the rectangles to the back, behind the lines. Insert a short song from the sound clip art into the slide. If necessary, use the Playback tab and select "trim audio" to adjust the length of the song. 20-30 seconds is a good song length to start. Show the animation pane (animations > animation pane). Begin adding entrance animations to your lines and rectangles. Set all of your animations to start "With Previous". Then expand the animation pane to make it wider. Drag each animation along the timeline to adjust the delay time before the object animates in. Use your mouse to adjust the length of each animation. Try to make the speed of the animations match your music. Note: make sure you animate ALL of your lines and rectangles.
- Images: composition | Red, Yellow
- Examples: See 5th grade projects on this web page
- Paul Klee Ttwittering Machines: Klee and add music buttons using insert sound.-- see how to teach art to children. INTERACTIVITY AND DRAWING
- About Paul Klee
- More background: Klee loved music. Look at the picture "Twittering Machines". What kind of music do you think the twittering machine plays? If you could create your own, what kind of music would it play? What would it look like? What kinds of colors does Klee use?
- Directions: using Klee's picture as a model, create your own version of his Twittering Machine. You can make it as original as you like or imitate Klee's. Insert sound "clip art" that plays when clicked. (Insert > Clip Art: sounds)
- Offfice 10 Instructional notes: On Ribbon, "Slide Show"-- uncheck “show media controls”. For each sound icon, go to the ribbon feature, "Playback" and check, "rewind after playing". To make a transparent button: Right-click on sound icon and select "change picture". Change it to “whitedot”(or downloaded here) in picture folder. Then format> color>set transparent.
- Images: Twittering Machines
- Partial Example with directions
- Clip Art Cartoon Story: Story telling in PPT 2 days ANIMATION AND STORYTELLING
- Instruction Notes: Begin with a planning sheet in Word. Write down the setting, characters and props (clip art), conflict and resolution (a story outline). Make a story about something you know or interests you.
- Sequence: 1. Story Planner 2. New Blank PowerPoint slide 3. Insert a background photo that covers the stage and creates the setting."Send to Back". 4. Add characters and props. 5. Add speech bubbles. 6. Add motion paths for characters. To create a second motion path for a character, select the "Add Animation" Button" to add a second movement. 7. Add entrance animations for the speech bubbles. 8. Adjust the length and position of each item in your animation timeline. 9. Consider duplicating the slide and changing the speech bubbles and animation rather than adding them to one slide.
- Animation Example
- Story Starter
Units Include
- Practice exercises for each new skill for instance fills, gradients, image shapes.
- Some biography and art history of artists using research and notes on art projects
- Image examples of the featured artists
- Project samples
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