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This lesson could be taught in a painting course or in an art survey class to teach the skill of visualizing organic and geometric shapes. The smartboard would be used to manipulate images of Georgia O'Keefe's flower paintings, finding simplified shapes within the paintings that would help students to translate 3 dimensional forms into 2 dimensional shapes, and finally into their own paintings.

This lesson would be ideal for a Ceramics II course to get the students thinking collaboratively. The smartboard is used to show how Native American totems are created. We started with images of animals and using an external website link that we embedded in the smartboard lesson, were able to relate those animals to specific meanings and mythology. Then students can use the smartboard to build their own totem pole using the images and interacting with the board.

This is a simple vocabulary lesson for an Art Metals class to refresh their knowledge of specific tools used in cutting metal. The smartboard is used to match up visual representations of tools to their title counterpart. Students can interact with the smartboard directly, dragging either the text or the image to its partner.

The Archimballdo lesson is used for an Advanced Drawing course to introduce an artist and their work, as well as allow for some class experimentation with the techniques that artist used. Archimballdo used a variety of objects specific to the personality of the person he was painting. The lesson would be for students to create a self-portrait using objects that have personal meaning to them. The smartboard allows the student or teacher to use clip art and other photos to assemble a portrait on top of a photo of a person, practicing the technique making a portrait from objects.