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Art Is For Everyone at Kenneth Culbert Elementary School

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Addison Bender is the Art teacher at Kenneth Culbert Elementary School. He works to create opportunities for learners with all different types of abilities to express themselves through art using various assistive technologies. Examples include paint brushes made from pool noodles, duct tape, and old mop heads, various handles affixed to molded melted crayons, and much, much, more. Mr. Bender shares some of his ideas in the video Art Is For Everyone. In what ways can you make art more accessible to every learner?

Adding Textures to Text To Help Illustrate Meaning

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Textures can be added to the inside of text of specific words to help teach meaning. Providing a visualization of a word can help it stick with someone’s memory. Textures can be added using Word Art in Microsoft Word, Adobe Firefly, and/or the Text Effects feature of Adobe Creative Cloud Express which is available to all educators in Loudoun County Public Schools through LCPS Go. Below are some examples of verbs (core vocabulary words) illustrated with representative textures.

The word drink with the texture of flowing water The word eat made with the textures of different foods The word sleep made with the texture of pillows and beds

Create Your Own Mandalorian for May the Fourth

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May the Fourth is known as Star Wars day. A fun experience for learners of all ages might be to create their own Mandalorian from the Star Wars universe. Go to https://www.mandocreator.com/ to begin.

Implementation ideas include…

  1. Collaboratively working with peers to design and color the character by giving directions such as, “Put that on”, “Let’s use green”, and “I choose that one.”
  2. Practicing the pragmatic function of commenting on the character such as, “It is big”, “I like it”, and “It has many colors.”
  3. Exporting the picture and adding text to describe the character.
  4. Exporting the picture, importing it into a slide deck using Google Slides or PowerPoint, and adding additional images around it to create a scene.
  5. Telling a story about the character.

The universe is the only limit to how it can be used! Whatever the students’ create will be out of this world! This is the way!

A Mandalorian created using https://www.mandocreator.com/

A Mandalorian created using https://www.mandocreator.com/