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Selasa, 11 November 2014

November 2014 Bulletin Board Projects

11/11/2014

Hello again, I’m Amy Cross and I am a graduate student working in the Instructional Technology Center at Eastern Illinois University. This month I created two bulletin board projects with a November theme for the ITC. I wanted to create a couple of fall-like bulletin boards that matched the season.

I went to my favorite website of all time, Pinterest, to find some ideas on what I should do for a bulletin board. For those of you that don’t know, Pinterest is a great resource to find ideas for just about anything in life. In this case, I searched for November bulletin boards and there were a bunch to choose from. I selected three that were my favorite, and went to work on those.

Fall Tree Bulletin Board with Paper Bag Owls

The first bulletin board that I put together was the tree and owl bulletin board. First, I measured out the bulletin board that I would be working on. This is a major step that many often forget to do. When students come into the ITC and want to have paper cut for their bulletin board, they usually end up getting too much or too little because they have not measured out in advance. Be sure to have your measurements beforehand so you know what you will need for your project.

My next step was cutting out the roll paper that I would be using as my backdrop for the bulletin board. I chose blue, just so that the rest of the bulletin board would stick out. I then selected an orange boarder and placed that around the edges of the board.

Next, I began working on the tree which I based off of the picture that I had previously found on Pinterest, I free-handed the tree to the best of my ability.

Once again, it is important to know how big the bulletin board is so that your objects that you create can actually fit onto the bulletin board. Then I used the Ellison Die-cuts to create the maple leaf cutouts.

I used orange, yellow and red to represent the fall colors of the leaves. Once I had all of those objects on the board, I began working on the Owl, the best part.

It was really simple to make the Owls. I had left over brown paper bags that people often use for sack lunches.

I opened up the bags as if I were going to put something inside of it. Then, I folded the top of the bag over twice and stapled it shut. The next step is creating the Owls body parts. I used left over black construction paper to create the little feet on the owl and used rubber cement to paste the feet to the bag.

I used left over white construction paper and cut out circles to represent the eyes. Using a black permanent maker I drew on the black parts of the Owls eyes. Finally, I found orange left over construction paper to use to create the beak of the Owl. I folded the paper in half, and cut out a triangle. This gave the Owl more 3-D like qualities. Once finished, I stapled the Owls to the bulletin board for the final product.

Turkey Bulletin Board

The second bulletin board I created was the Turkey bulletin board. Once again, I used blue roll paper for the backdrop and then I used orange boarder to go along the edges of the bulletin board. I found some brown roll paper that I used to create the body of the Turkey, which essentially I did by making a figure 8.

Once that was accomplished I used orange, yellow and red construction paper to create the feathers of the Turkey. I used left over white construction paper to create the eyes and drew in with black permanent marker the darker shades of the eyes. I then used yellow construction paper and created the beak of the Turkey much like I did with the Owls.

I wanted to make it look 3-D, so I have them sticking off of the Turkey. Finally, I crumpled up red construction paper and cut out a shape to create the Turkey’s gobbler on the side of his beak and yellow construction paper to create the Turkey’s legs.

I used Ellison Die-Cuts to create the musical notes and the text that is above and around the Turkey, which was really easy to do. As a final touch, I added the ITC TechTalk4Teachers MP3 player and ear phones to show that the Turkey is listening to Dr. Grissom’s TechTalk4Teachers podcast.

The ITC is a great place for future and current teachers to look for educational resources. Our Ellison Die-Cuts make creating projects much easier to do. I recommend that you all come in and have a look!

Amy Cross
Graduate Assistant
Instructional Technology Center

Amy did a great job with this months ITC bulletin board projects. Amy and I also created a narrated slide show using the Office Mix plug-in for PowerPoint 2013 and posted it to the YouTube link below. This gives a good overview of this project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzeUISTllmo&list=UUAkVWHTOjqjhlmEn742w2Aw

There are so many uses of Office Mix for teachers and students. Office Mix is extremely easy to use and I will be sharing more about it in future projects.

Keep on Learning,

Tom Grissom, Ph.D.

@tomgrissom

http://eiu.edu/itc

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Selasa, 26 Agustus 2014

See what’s poppin in the ITC - Bulletin Board Project

08/26/2014

Those that follow this blog know that we do everything from low-tech to high-tech projects at the Instructional Technology Center. It is important to keep a "hands-on" component in learning activities, especially for children.

The following is a guest post from one of the ITC’s Graduate Assistants, Amy Cross. Amy is great at putting together bulletin board ideas for our preservice teachers and sharing ideas for the classroom. Here is how she created the back to school bulletin board.

First things first, I love Pinterest. If you are trying to craft or create anything, check out what Pinterest has to offer! In the search box, I typed in Bulletin Boards. A bunch of ideas come up! I was looking for something that Education Majors, or anyone that is crafty, would find useful to them. I settled on a picture of a bulletin board that was announcing the students in the class with popcorn. If this were for your classroom you could add the children's name and/or picture to each popped kernel of popcorn. Even better, have each child create their own kernel to post to the bulletin board.

Once I had my idea covered, I began measuring the bulletin board to figure out how much paper I would need. I chose black as the backdrop, and red to outline the outside of the bulletin board. Next, I decided to work on the statement that would be on the bulletin board. So often people leave the lettering last and the design might not leave room for the lettering. Using the Ellison Die-Cutters and yellow paper, I cut out the letters “See What’s Poppin’ In The ITC”.

The next step was to make the popcorn box. Using red paper, I freehanded the cut-out of the popcorn box, and then I added strips of white paper to give it a fun look. After that was done, I put the popcorn box onto the bulletin board, and stapled on the lettering. At this point, a majority of the work was completed!

The last step was to create the popcorn that would be scattered around the bulletin board. I used white laminated construction paper, and cut out fun popcorn shapes. What makes creating popcorn so fun is that it does not have to be perfect! After the popcorn is cut out, you can begin to put up the shapes where you have room to finish your bulletin board. All done!

A big thank you to Amy for sharing her bulletin board skills will all of us.

Keep on Learning!

Tom Grissom, Ph.D.

@tomgrissom

http://eiu.edu/itc

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Senin, 17 Februari 2014

ITC Valentine Bulletin Board

02/17/2014

We now interrupt the regularly scheduled Chromebook blog series to bring you this important bulletin board project.

It is time once again to revamp the ITC bulletin board. This time the ITC grad students decided to do a Valentine theme for February, here is how they did it.

To make the Valentine bulletin board for the ITC, we first started with the background paper. Measuring the width and height of the bulletin board gave us an estimate of how much background paper we would need to use. We decided to go with red to honor the true Valentine’s spirit!

Next, we chose a border to put around the bulletin board. We went with the color white to make it balance out the red background paper. That was the easy part.

To get started with the harder part, we Googled pictures of a cupid and printed out the ones we liked the best. After doing that, we needed to get it copied to a transparency. Once that was done, we could put the transparency of the cupid on an old-fashioned overhead projector and project the image up onto the wall for tracing.

The ITC has a permanent setup with a wall of Plexiglas to affix large sheets of paper to make it easy for you to enlarge images for creating your own bulletin boards. This setup makes it easy for tracing images and allows you to enlarge the image to the size you need for your project.

We decided to go with a white background paper for the cupid for the final project. The next step was to search the Internet for images of a stylized heart. Some people can freehand hearts pretty accurately but we chose once again use a transparency sheet to project the image and trace around the heart shape for our bulletin board. Once the heart and cupid were cut out, we began working on the heart to make it look 3-D.

This was probably the most difficult part. We used some of the materials we have available in the ITC and chose to use boarders that we had in stock to make it look like a heart box of “candy”. This was difficult because the borders are meant to be in a straight line, so getting them to stick to the heart took a lot of bending, taping, and stapling. The end result looked great though!

We colored lightly on the cupid just to give it a splash of pizzazz. To fill the heart shaped “candy box”, we went back online to Google’s search engine and found several photos of technology devices that you would find here in the ITC. For example, markers, construction paper, computers, printers, laptops, iPads, and die cutters and printed them in color to make them look more realistic.

We worked on using the die cutters for the words “The ITC is like a box of Tech” and chose to do 3 layers of Valentine’s colors (red, white, and pink) to make the bulletin board pop. Once the words were posted on the bulletin board we used Google to find a computer screen that we could make from construction paper. After cutting that out with black paper, we went back online to the ITC webpage, and printed off the screenshot that would come up if you were to go the ITC webpage. We pasted that on the computer screen to make it look technologically cool.

Once all of the things were up and stapled on to the bulletin board, we took our MP3 player with ear buds and plugged into Mr. Cupid’s ears for listening to Dr. Grissom’s TechTalk4Teachers podcast. This has become a running theme at the ITC and you will often find the MP3 player incorporated into ITC bulletin board designs.

As you can see from the pictures above this is another great job completed by the ITC graduate assistants. Please stop by the ITC to see this and other projects for classroom ideas and to make your own bulletin board today!

Keep on Learning,

Tom Grissom, PhD

http://eiu.edu/itc/

http://techtalk4teachers.blogspot.com/

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Rabu, 11 Desember 2013

Creating a 3D Bulletin Board with some Holiday Cheer

12/11/2013

I recently had a couple of my graduate assistants refresh the bulletin board in the ITC. We try to do this at least monthly to give visitors to the ITC ideas for their classrooms. I always stress to our pre-service teachers that bulletin boards are an effective communication tool and you should not limit bulletin board designs to two dimensions. Since it is winter time we had the idea of making a Snowman scene with 3D snowflakes hanging from the ceiling to make it look like it was snowing.

Learning is an attitude and having a pleasant learning environment is an important component for making students feel welcome in their learning space. Bulletin Boards provide information but they also can help set the atmosphere for learning. How welcoming is your classroom?

Here is their accounting of how they did it.

Katy and I work here in the ITC and one of our tasks is to create bulletin boards for others to learn from. This month we wanted to do a Holiday board because we are entering winter break. First, we searched ideas through Pinterest. I don’t know if many of you have an account, and I am sure you do not need one to look through photos. However, Pinterest is a great source for educational ideas. Once we narrowed our search down to the picture we wanted, we got to work.

The ITC has a lot of great supplies to help create the perfect bulletin board from die-cutters, to backdrop paper, markers and construction paper. We measured out our bulletin board and got the appropriate amount of backdrop paper to get started. Once you have that positioned the rest is a breeze. Katy worked with the die-cutters in cutting out many snowflakes.

If you have not already been in to the ITC, come in and take a quick look around. The die-cutters are a great source for cutting out letters and different shapes and pictures. Once the snowflakes were cut out, Katy took two at a time, folded them at 90* and taped two together to form a 3-D illusion of a snowflake. While she was working hard on that, I cut off some white paper and began working on the snowman. I personally think it looks best whenever it is freehand because it makes it look more authentic.

For this particular bulletin board, we wanted the snowman to look like he was sticking out off the bulletin board, having a little extra paper on the sides to make that possible helps. Katy took another yard of white paper and began working on the “snow slopes” that would be in the background of the bulletin board. Once again, I think it is best if you try to freehand this. Just cut out a flowing landscape, it doesn’t have to be perfect!

Once you have the snowflakes, snow slope, and snowman cut out you can begin putting it together using a layered approach. First we stapled up the snow slopes in the background. Once that was done, Katy got to work stapling the snowflakes on the backdrop like they were falling. Next, we began putting the snowman up. We wanted to have him look like he was a 3-D figure. We stapled the bottom first and somewhat up the sides to leave some room in the middle. Once that was done I took the left over paper that we used and crumpled it up into balls of paper. We took that and stuffed it in the snowman’s belly to make him “pop” out. Katy picked out a green boarder to go around the outside of our bulletin board to hide any of the messy side parts and to make it look like a wintery scene. We took left over construction paper and began making the buttons that go down the snowman’s outfit, and the coal shapes for the eyes, and mouth. Katy made a nose out of left over construction paper. If you try this yourself, maybe making the nose look like it is sticking out, to make it 3-D would be a nice effect.

Katy got busy working on the snowman’s top hat; once again, we freehanded all of this to make it look fun and artsy. After that, Katy created from left over construction paper the berries on the hat and the leaf. I used the letter die-cutters to spell out “Happy Holidays From The ITC” as a festive touch.

The die-cutters in the ITC are a lot of fun to work with. They’re simple and make any project easier and more enjoyable. We took brown construction paper to make the arms of the snowman by cutting it in half, width-wise. Then we took each half and twisted it to give it a “stick” look and stuck them into the sides of the snowman.

Katy found little light bulb shapes die-cutters and made a bunch in assorted colors to put along the outside of the bulletin board. It added some flare in making it look more festive! Then we took a permanent marker and traced the light bulbs as if they were on a string of lights. Once all of that was put together, I took fishing line and a hole-punch and went to work on the left over 3-D snowflakes we had. I punched a single hole in the tops of the snowflakes, then I snaked through some fishing line just enough on each to make them look like they were falling at different lengths. Tie the end of the fishing line to a paper clip and then attach to the ceiling tile tracks above to hang the snowflakes.

As a final touch we cut out a small pocket shaped piece of paper and taped it to the Snowman’s chest that served as a pocket to hold a MP3 Player that we cutout and colored with a highlighter. We used real headphones and made it look like they were connected to the MP3 Player in his pocket.

If you look closely the Snowman is listening to our TechTalk4Teachers podcast!

If you would like to listen to the latest episode of TechTalk4Teachers please visit:

http://techtalk4teachers.blogspot.com/

Building a bulletin board can be overwhelming at first, but if you add just a little creativity it can turn out to be a lot of fun!

Thank you for reading our blog,

Amy and Katy

Graduate Assistants in the ITC

December 2013

Keep on Learning!
Dr. Grissom

@tomgrissom

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