Today we had 6th grade early entry for new students to our school. Since I teach art, we have two groups of students… A day and B day students. Today we met with the A day students for 15 mins on google meets for a team building activity!
We talk about making our mark, and expressing ourselves as artists. I ask them to think of a symbol or design that would represent who they are. We discussed collaboration and how we come together to make a masterpiece. Each one of us an important part of the whole.
Since we aren’t in school… I wanted to create this same experience in the virtual world. One tool I learned about this week in our professional development meetings, was Jamboard!
Jamboard is a google app that allows people to collaborate in order to create. There are different tools, such as marker, pen, paintbrush, and highlighter. Sticky notes are great for adding text.
So students got to work on their digital class mural, making their mark and expressing themselves in the digital world.
It was so amazing watching the mural to unfold! Seeing the students mark making in the moment and how everyone was working on their own ideas and at the same time we were all working together!
I had so much fun with my 6th grade A day #students! #teambuilding with #jamboard @TeamRidgely @RidgelyMSPTA @visualartsbcps @BarishSeth pic.twitter.com/H4XgCI64jf
— Raine Valentine (@MsValentineRMS) September 4, 2020
This was a great team building activity, and I we had a final piece of art after 15 mins!
I am looking forward to doing this with the rest of my students.
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