Distance Learning week 1

Our district is implementing remote/distance learning for our students. Here's some background: our school is a 7-12th grade, 1:1 iPad school. This year I have the following courses: studio art (intro to art, grades 9-12, 1 full year), drawing and painting (10-12th grade, 1 full year) and art 8 (8th grade, 1/2 year only). I will be posting my lessons to Schoology for my students. My first goal will be to use the schoology discussion board platform to check in with students and respond to questions/concerns etc and ask them to post an art related tutorial video from YouTube so we can have our own database of activities to go back to.

Since we have iPads for our students, eventually, I will be allowing students to work on the digital projects that we normally do together in class, at home, by breaking down the project into daily goals. My drawing class will be doing an in-depth graphite or charcoal study (depending on what they brought home to work with) of their board game still life as a way to prepare for their painting and I will ask them to post a progress shot daily.

If you'd like to try any of these assignments (see below for two examples), here we go: access the documents you need in this google drive folder! I did not break them down into daily activities for you, but you can feel free to alter them as needed.
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drive.google.com/drive/folders/1j_Csb5dbpiUtqkLMgZ1F4aaAcPSWCwX9?usp=sharing

The folder includes: a Medibang paint tools cheat sheet, rubrics, power point in pdf version, and student samples! Also in there you will find my “staying creatively engaged” list of activities.

If you do any of the projects, please tag me on social media @Daniellelivoti on instagram, @mslivotiart on twitter! Best of luck to all my fellow educators!


​xo, Danielle

Digital Scratch art by Student Gina Lee