Monday, October 13, 2008

Francisco, 7th Grade, RYSS


This photo is special because it shows the result of a recent disaster ... Hurricane Ike ... that happened in Houston, Texas. I took this picture because it looked very interesting. It demonstrates that the wind was strong enough to bend and even break a big tree. When I came to school, the tree was knocked down on the school fence. The school called some people to come and cut the tree into many small pieces. This picture is also interesting because it shows shadows of the tree and some other shadows. When I took this picture, I felt kind of sad because of all the people who died in Hurricane Ike.



Francisco, 7th Grade, Junior Academy, Raul Yzaguirre School For Success [RYSS], Houston, Texas

9 comments:

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Anonymous said...

THIS PICTURE MAKES ME THINK ABOUT THE HURRICANE THAT HAPPENED IN OUR CITY BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE LOST THEIR HOMES AND FAMILY MEMBERS.

Anonymous said...

This is a good picture that you took because it shows the disaster that Ike did. Ike did a lot of damage, but now Ike is gone and everything is ok.

Anonymous said...

This is a good picture that you took because it shows the damage that Ike left.Ike left a lot of damage' but now it's gone.

Anonymous said...

The hurricane did a lot of destruction on the neighborhood, and it would probably have been better if it wasn't destroyed.

Anonymous said...

This picture is a very interesting picture of all of the terror that the hurricane that it has caused.....

GOOD PICTURE BTW.

Anonymous said...

This was a very good picture because it showed something very important. It really explained the damage of the hurricane.

Anonymous said...

This is a good representation of a hurricane because it shows that a storm could destroy some of the strongest things. Good picture.

Anonymous said...

This is no ordinary picture it is a real nice picture. I like how you took no parking when people really do park there.

Instructors and LTP

Instructors:

Harold Olejarz is Art and Technology teacher at Eisenhower Middle School, Wyckoff, New Jersey, U.S.A. He began his career as a sculptor and exhibited in Soho, NYC, in the early 1980s. His work evolved into Performance Art and his living sculptures installed themselves in museums and public spaces in the US and Europe from 1985 to the early 1990s. He has been exploring digital media as both an artist and an educator since 1997. “Capturing the Moving Present,” an essay by Harold Olejarz, is included in Video Art for the Classroom, a National Art Education Association publication. Olejarz has made presentations on the use of digital media at state and national educational conferences.

Tom Chambers is Technology Applications teacher at Raul Yzaguirre School For Success [Junior Academy], Houston, Texas, U.S.A. He was Visiting Lecturer in Digital/New Media Art for the Fine Arts Department at Zhaoqing University, Zhaoqing, China, 2005-2007. He was Executive Committee Member and Juror (2003 - 2005) for the International Digital Art Awards (IDAA), and was instrumental in expanding the content of the IDAA to include New Media Art, and served as on-line New Media Director (2004 - 2005). Chambers has been a documentary photographer and visual artist for over thirty years, and he is currently working with the pixel as Minimal Art (Pixelscapes) which begins to approach a true, abstract, visual language in Digital Art.

Tanya Heard is Art/Photo teacher at T. H. Rogers School, Houston, Texas.

2007 - 2008 school year participant:

Dorian Gillespie is Art teacher at Southmore Intermediate School in Pasadena Texas. Prior to coming to Southmore, he taught at Bailey Elementary. He decided to teach and mentor students in the arts in order to give them an opportunity to learn and advise them of the many career choices an artist has. Although he did not teach art at Bailey, he was able to incorporate many art lessons into the curriculum. He has taught after school art classes for the University of Houston Clear Lake as well. Rather than become a professional artist, he decided to mentor as a teacher.

This blog was a part of the FotoFest LTP process:

2007 - 2008
2008 - 2009
2009 - 2010

Literacy Through Photography (LTP), the educational component of FotoFest International (Houston, Texas), is a writing program designed to help classroom students achieve better communication skills through the use of digital or film-based photography.

FotoFest has combined with the instructors and schools to pursue a pilot program ... blog approach ... for LTP.

Students increase visual and verbal literacy while building cognitive thinking skills, self-esteem, and awareness of each other. The LTP curriculum provides students with meaningful subject matter to help them write about their own photographs, their own lives, with confidence.

This blog, founded by Harold Olejarz and Tom R. Chambers continues to be a significant tool to help students with their written expression.