iPad for Figure Drawing Demo

Here's a short video of me using the iPad in my 2D Foundation class for a figure drawing demonstration. To start figure drawing we use some printouts of figures to draw on top of, then draw from initially before working from life. Using the app "ArtStudio" I was able to bring up an image and then draw on top while my work was being shown on the wall screen.

http://youtu.be/oBFOBwyhvn8





 

Project Based Learning experiment

I used some time during spring break to visit my wife's junior high art class and try out an idea I had for using the iPad in the classroom to enhance student learning. I spent two class periods with her students who were working on a design project with skateboard decks. I showed them how to use the iPad to take photographs, shoot video and how to put those things together into a blog post. I asked them to try to document the work they were doing on their project in such a way that another class could learn how to do the same project. Here is a link to that blog.

 

An example of a photo documenting a painting method.

 


An example of a video with voice over narrative.

 

Using the iPad with pole vault practice

As the school's pole vault coach with the track and field team it has often been difficult to explain the fine points of this most technically difficult of field events. I am using my iPad with team daily. although the iPad has a good quality video camera and photo app, I use the the app VideoPix because it allows be to use slow motion and frame by frame viewing of boy's vaults to analyze problems and teach correct form.

A typical vault attempt. We can slow it down and view key points frame by frame using VideoPix

I am also able to use my iPad to have some video examples of strong high school and college vaulters on hand to show our vaulters for reference. I used my iPad to create a blog page for pole vault and have put reference videos there for my vaulters to study.