Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Elena at EMS



I posted my shoe as a self portrait because I love to do sports! When I have nothing to do I would go outside and play.
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Andrew at EMS



OK well this is me, I am a 7th grader at EMS my favorite sports are ice hockey and soccer. My favorite hockey team is the New Jersey Devils and my favorite player is Zach Parise. I am the youngest child in my family of 3 kids and 2 adults. I have 2 pets 1 bird and 1 dog. When I am not at school or doing homework I like to hang out with friends and play videos games. In soccer I play left foward so I get a lot of scoring chances but I can never score. I am a big fan of the Devils I watch every game and cheer them on when I go to the games.
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Self-portrait by Ana [RYSS]


"First of all, this is me in the picture. I took this picture to show that even though I have fun, I sometimes can be sad and thoughtful. The picture is focused on me and my feelings. I wear the bracelet you see because a friend gave it to me, and I like fashion."

Ana
8th Grade
Raul Yzaguirre School For Success [RYSS]
Houston, TX
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Self-portrait by Ana [RYSS]


"I really like this picture. I'm in front of a mirror looking up. This shows that even though you are yourself, you sometimes don't even know yourself. In case, you're wondering, I'm in my room. This probably explains the closet in the background. The things on the top shelf in the closet add curiosity to the picture. This picture shows the real me and a part of me as a reflection. A reflection isn't everything. It's just simply a small part of you and that looks aren't everything. What matters is what's inside you."

Ana
8th Grade
Raul Yzaguirre School For Success [RYSS]
Houston, TX
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Domingo (Beto)
6th Grade
Southmore Intermediate
Pasadena, TX
I like to hang around with my friends. I like to play football, basketball, and soccer.
I like to play video games, and have fun! I'm in to cars, and trucks.

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Theresa (Pelos)
8th Grade
Southmore Intermediate
Pasadena, TX
I have curly hair and I like to chill
with my homegirls! Sometimes I wear
contacts, and for the most part I cant live without
hairspray!! Eating hotcheetoes rocks! Oh ya i love fashion,
jewelry, and getting my nails done! Icant wait to go to Rayburn!!


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Victor
6th Grade
Southmore Intermediate (SI)
Pasadena, TX

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Karina
6th Grade
Southmore Intermediate (SI)
Pasadena, TX
Hi, My name is Karina and I enjoy my self in here because it is what I like to do ! In my pictures I took 3 kinds of pictures one was sad, one was happy, and the other one was funny. I have good grades in school , and I am right choice . I think some time you sounld be your self that my moto!
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Daisy
6th Grade
Southmore Intermediate (SI)
Pasadena, TX


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Olegario
6Th Grade
Southmore Intermediate (SI)
Pasadena, TX
What I like to do when I'm home, I sometimes go play tournament paintball. I'm tyring to start a team to go around the state and maybe around the country.I also like to play the guitar I'm almost a intermediate guitar player.
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Marissa
6th Grade
Southmore Intermediate (SI)
Pasadena, TX
Hi, my name is Marissa I am in the sixth grade. These pictures right here are self portraits. The first one is when i'm not smiling. The second one is my silly face. The last one is my smily face. A little more information about me... I have a best friend thats in the seventh grade. Her name is Angelique. I also have an older brother thats sixteen and he's in the eleventh grade. That's all I have to say.
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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.