tech task #4

Puppet Play

Performing (dance, music, theatre): Realizing artistic ideas
and work through interpretation and presentation.
Presenting (visual arts): Interpreting and sharing artistic work.
Producing (media arts): Realizing and presenting artistic ideas and work.

1. What is the tool that you have chosen? What does it do? 
1. Sock puppets, It allows the user to create a video using animated sock puppets and specialized back drops.
2. What else do you know about the tool?
1. This tool allows you to record your voice and make a short story with it. When you are done recording it will then change your voice to fit the puppet that you chose. You may have multiple puppets or just one. You can also have multiple backdrops. 
3. How can you leverage this tool to create integrated art experiences in your classroom?
1. This tool is great for including other subjects into art. You could use math and have the puppets count certain numbers of specific colors and shapes. 
2. You could have them explain science and what happens with life cycles. 
4. Why would you use the tool in the classroom?
1. This tool is a fun way to get every child involved and feel like they are contributing to not only their learning but their peers learning as well.
5. Could students use this app to create their own digital media artifacts? 
1. Yes, Students could save this and post it to Youtube or even the school's website. 
2. You could help them create an account and have them do it with their parents as well as homework.
3. Groups of students could work together to create a scene in your story with certain criteria you would have to cover. Then as a teacher you could put it all together and create a video over any subject or learning material you chose. 
6. What makes it easy to use? 
1. The fact that this app is all hands on and records all at once is helpful. All you have to do is touch the puppet to switch who is talking. You can do the same with the backdrop. Everything is self explanatory and aided by directions from the puppets.
7. What would challenge students?
1. The challenging part would be helping the kids make the time long enough. Each clip is only 30 seconds long.
2. You can save the clips and put them all together as a movie in the end but that is time consuming and you would have to use a different site. The sock puppet app does not allow you to put scenes together to create a video.