Homework #14/ Impact 100 (Part 3)

So, my Mystery Art Gift Challenge has finally ended; however, the photography instructor Ms. Eliza Lamb have asked me if her students could participate in this project until the end of the semester! It's great. It has definitely affected more than 100 people. Nevertheless, I only have 9 submission thus far. I will choose the winner by the end of this week.

For my Scratch exploration, I have tried out a few tutorials, and came up with my "Doggy Daycare" moving composition. Scratch is such a great program. Possibilities are endless, but I would definitely need more time to make something substantial. Scratch is a wonderful program for both children and adults who are interested in learning the logistics of basic coding. The language of coding is logical, and it can be grasped once you are familiar with it. In an art classroom, scratch could be used to explore the visual elements of collage, animation, and photography. All art seems to be integrated with all media these days. Everything seems to be everything, but it will always be fun and interesting to work with Scratch for kids to learn technology. 

The lesson sequel idea from my past lesson plan is that the digital collage/painting could be carried over to scratch as a background. Similar to the artist I have researched below, the scratch platform could be made to create an interactive webpage, or a game of students' own designs. Through designing their own games on Scratch, students will learn that different commands allow different effects online and that putting together commands is similar to making decisions in other art forms.

For my artist research, I researched Tara Sinn (http://newhive.com/tarasinn/nobody-knows-i-like-the-dead?q=%40tarasinn%20%23myafterlifeissoboring), whom I discovered at New Hive. New Hive is a multimedia platform that lets the users create web pages combining images, text, video, drawing, shapes, embeds, and code. She is a web designer/illustrator/motion graphics artist/jack-of-all-internet-trades. I am actually thinking about making my final project on the New Hive. The digital motion collages below are animated and have sounds to match the motions.