When taking the photo and designing the final image, students are instructed to chose design elements that best represent the profile word. The final image is processed in Wordfoto, an iOS app, which embeds each student's sentence he or she wrote about their profile in the photograph.
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How We Express Ourselves
Central Ideas
Individuals and groups express ideas about freedom, rights, and beliefs.
People create art to communicate their feelings and personal experiences.
Standards
ART.VA.I.4.1 Use technologies to communicate ideas and experiences.
ART.VA.I.4.4 Prepare, present, and collaboratively evaluate personal artwork.
(VPAA: C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, P1, P2, P4, R1, R4)
ART.VA.II.4.4 Analyze and reflect on the uses of subject matter, symbols, and ideas to express and communicate meaning in artwork.
ART.VA.II.4.6 Incorporate the uses of different technologies to show artistic expression through an original artwork.(VPAA: C2, C3, C4, C5, P2, P3, R1, R2, R3, R4)
ART.VA.III.4.1 Reflect and discuss the visual structures and functions used in personal artwork.
ART.VA.III.4.4 Compare and contrast two pieces of personal work.