In this one hit wonder film of the year, the Time-Travelling-Techno-Teachers go back in time to show Victorian-era school children technology that might help them with their art projects. The techno-teachers talk about using an iPad drawing app called Concept, which is similar to Adobe’s Procreate (shown in the screen capture video). These are both super useful apps for digital paintings and drawings, and can be used by both amateurs and professionals. The teachers then show the students online content and resources through a 360 gallery walk. This is especially helpful when wanting to showcase art to students on a serious budget – instead of going to the location, you can simply view it together as a class by using a computer and a projector. Lastly, the teachers help the students with their dance poster by using Canva, which is essentially a simplified version of photoshop that also has shared content. However, for students to use this in an art class, there would have to be specific guidelines around making unique creations and not simply taking an already made work to hand in for a project. Canva is most useful for layout and design tasks. The techno-teachers also pass over a digital camera that the students can use to take photos at their school dance. While digital media such as photography and video is usually separate from studio arts, cameras are an amazing way to document studio-based work to create student portfolios or share work digitally. Finally, to make this video, we utilized a camera, an iPhone, iMovie editor, AI to generate subtitles (which were correct 90% of the time), and a green screen which we could “project” onto in post. These are all fantastic methods of technology used in art classrooms, and making video projects for classes can be a great cross-curricular experience.
– The Tide Trekkers