This artist uses paper and create these cool abstractions. These colors remind me of you, and your work!
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For Lindsay B- Jenna Decker
Although you sort of moved away from the embroidery, I thought this artist was pretty cool!
Visualization 4
Jenn Brannigan
Visualization 4- Last Iteration
May 12, 2017
For my last data set I decided to look at the photos that my students sent to me after the field trip we went on. I check out 10 students and gathered the images that they replicated. If an image is on the board, that means it was taken at least one other time. If they are on their more than once, that means all out of the ten students I looked at the photo was taken that amount of times. From there I counted how many were from each business. For The Green Palette 10 photos were taken. So each student took at least one photo. For American Made Monster Studio, 6 photos were taken. The reason I painted the canvas a blue green was because of the cyanotype. The chemical that we use that is sun sensitive is a blue green, and when exposed is a dark blue. The reason I picked this blue green is because just like the chemical, this data hasn’t been developed to maturity yet.
If I had to guess, I would say that students photographed these images for multiple reasons. For one, location. The American Made Monster logo was in the entrance of the studio. Once students got inside, they were listening to what the craftsmen had to say about their jobs. Two, for the green palette, they were aloud to go upstairs in their make shift loft. The strange palette maze attached to the wall, was right at the entrance to the stairs, The tall branches were hung from the ceiling. Students had a birds eye view of the entire studio, and the owner was talking to them about how he gathered all the branches from Macy’s in Manhattan during the eighties. He told them about how they just threw away all the window displays to get new ones each year. One year, he asked for them instead of them being thrown away. They agreed, but they made him take them all within a night, which he did. He discussed with the students the idea of recycling and using your hands to build what you need, not just buy it. This is why, I believe, students also photographed the fabric butterfly wings. They came from recycled fabrics and textiles that were donated to the Green Palette. I think my students as a whole photographed The Green Palette more because they liked the ideas that were discussed while we were there. Aesthetically it was more kid friendly, and enjoyable to explore and check everything out. They even let the kids take palette pieces to draw on. Overall, these groups of photographs show that students found certain items in each space photo worthy. The reasons, although need to be explored more, show that students like the idea of recycling and connected with the stories that the owner of The Green Palette presented. 
Wip 5/1
I was so swamped last week that I didn’t have time to work on my personal work, just the work with the cyanotype. I added more to this drawing and plan on finishing it this week and added color in a circular boarder around and over the bee. 
Memo 4-The most hectic week of my life is over
So we finally exposed the cyanotype that my students have been getting ready and working on for months. We put in so much work, and everything ran so well. Some of my students were able to make the event, and for those who couldn’t, they were eager to see it today. We all had spent so much time on getting the entire thing together that I stayed at work for hours after I had to. So did some of my students. I’m getting ready to ask my students their reflective and post assessment questions tomorrow or the next day. I’m ready to start reviewing my data in the next week, and to gear up for the summer. 
Wip 4/24
This past week has been insane, probably the most busy I’ve been at school all year. I am working with my students on the large cyanotype for the unity day this Saturday 4/29. However, I finished (are we ever really finished) with the pine cone drawing and started a bumble bee ball point drawing.
Visualization 3 4/24
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This visualization is based off of the photographs that my students had taken during on field trip on april 5th. I wanted to keep this simple so I printed out a large map of all the destinations that we went to that day. From there, I looked at all of the students photographs and gathered five that were “taken” 5 times of more. In other words, students were able to photograph whatever they found interesting, or that they thought would give a viewer information about where we went and about the business’s in general.These images came up the most. I found out from this visualization and from reviewing the photographs that students photographed the green palette very heavily. Far more than they did American made monster studio. On our travels, and after, I have heard that students enjoyed the green palette most. It was interactive, and the owners were kind and approachable. The idea of recycling and being a creator also spoke to my students. I used green to outline the photographs for green palette, and red for the amount of “red coloring” within American made monster. I also marked out where KHS is in a blue marker. I have so much visual data that I could probably create 10 or more visualizations, however we are in the thick of it in terms of the giant cyanotype and working constantly late after school has kept me from focusing on the reviewing of data right now, just the gathering.
WIP 4/17/17
I added a metallic wash over areas of this to make it appear to be glowing in areas. I added my douglas fur trees as another layer, and I plan on adding more tonight, this was from last work before I went to Virginia to see my aunt. I will be posting about my experience with a gem mine and how I am going to incorporate it into my next ball point pen drawing.
Memo 3 Research JB
Today was the day of my field trip. The kids were really excited and they got to see some really awesome things. I have been so consumed by the hreb stuff and it was nice to see it pay off, and be approved the day before we went. I had the students photograph and email the pictures to me. I’m going to start graphing and noting what they photograph, and tomorrow, we are going to start to draw from these images. We were even given pieces of palette to draw on. The Green Palette wants them back to make a communal art piece with them. So far things, are going well. I’m busy, but I’m excited to start logging data and get to the finish line. Here are some images that the kids took. They liked both business’s, but I think they got different things from both. 
Visualization 1-redo
Jennifer Brannigan
3/30/17
Data Visualization
For this first data visualization, I decided to map visually my students understanding to the key concepts of two-point perspective and its key components. As a wrap up activity, I asked students to chart where they thought they might be in each category. The first category was vanishing points and the midway, i.e finding the center to where everything begins to pull back into space and to one of the vanishing points, the second was placing objects in a two dimensional space, and the third was the horizon line. For these three categories, students received three post-it notes. They were asked to initial the back, so that it would stay anonymous. Once they did this, they were asked to one post-it note under each category. They had three options for this also. The first- I understand this 100 percent, the second- I understand some of this, 75 percent, and the third- I really don’t understand this at all, less than 50 percent. Students charted themselves on their own personal bias, and they were asked to be honest so that I could better help them.
Once students mapped their post-it notes, I took them down section by section and listed their names so that I could see where everyone was feeling confident, or not understanding what we had been doing. This was for my own personal data collection and use, and it helped me better understand the key concepts that I had to re-teach for the next couple days.
For the actual visualization, I started with one cerulean blue wash. Blue being clarity, and my presence in the classroom. I originally put two colored washes, but didn’t plan of planning things out as far as background color in connection to what I actually graphed and collected in terms of data.On top of these ink washes, I started to make a different rectangular marks for each one of the sections. After I completed these marks, I went back and created dots around these marks. Each dot represents the number or class that each student is on. For example, one ring= freshman, four=senior.
With this visualization, I was able to see that my sophomores, except for one student all understood the three concepts at 100 percent. Which tells me that they way that I teach, or the way that they understand what I am teaching are almost perfectly aligned. My freshman were mostly in the 100 percent to 75 percent range. I had only two students under “ placing objects in a two dimensional space” say that they didn’t understand this concept at all. One student has a 504 plan, and the other has an IEP.