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ART & LITERACY
I work in a district where literacy rates need improvement. I am committed to the success of all my digital arts students, and I can do this by encouraging a love of the reading, writing, and conversation that is woven into all our creative digital arts projects. 
I design projects that build digital literacy, and are based on or connected to traditional literacy components such as composition, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, informal conversation, paraphrasing, and shared reading and writing. 
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The digital arts lessons I provide in kindergarten to fifth grade consistently employ challenging vocabulary. In addition, the pre-production, production, and post-production stages of creating animations, movies, and comic books engage students in narrative and storyboard development, as well as peer and self-evaluation. I also use a Restriction Method in assignments as a catalyst for deeper creativity. "Draw a tree using only triangles." will encourage more action and creativity than "Draw a tree." "When you restrict yourself in the creative process you can find things you would never have found otherwise."

NEWS and INFORMATION

July 2021 NEWS
I am happy to announce that I have joined the teaching staff of Key ES as the full time digital arts/arts teacher on a permanent basis. I am excited and looking forward to continuing to work, learn, and grow with my new colleagues. I love this team and all the amazing students we are blessed to help guide into their futures. This year has been an historic one, and we have all pulled together during these important and unusual circumstances. We have a lot to be proud of and a lot of growth and change to learn from.
This past February, DC Public Schools made a decision to not fund Fillmore Arts Center for the future school years. Fillmore was officially, quietly closed. Our wonderful, talented teaching staff have all been re-assigned to schools throughout the district. Fillmore looks forward to remaining a vibrant and important part of the Washington DC educational arts community as plans are considered to host educational events in the future.

September 2020 NEWS
In March of 2020 my school district, like thousands of others worldwide, went into lockdown due to the Virus pandemic.
  • We started quickly learning how to "reach and teach" remotely.
  • I immediately built the Fillmore Arts Center Distance Learning website through my Weebly account, creating pages for each Fillmore teacher.
  • All Fillmore teachers started designing remote lesson plans and videos.
During the summer months our district made decisions about how to start the new school year, and appropriately chose to remain remote. This process included temporarily reassigning teachers from some schools to other schools for the duration of distance learning. In the case of Fillmore, because 100's of students are bussed from their schools to our school for their classes, the district decided the risk of contamination during a pandemic was too great. All Fillmore teachers were temporarily reassigned to other schools. This included the schools we were teaching on our campus.

I am happy to announce that my reassignment was to Francis Scott Key ES, one of our Fillmore schools, a school I have been happily servicing in my Fillmore digital arts lab for 22 years. I have always had a great respect for the teachers, leadership, support staff and students of Key and am thrilled to have joined this team.
INFORMATION
​I will be creating 2 pages here for my Key students and families.
  • One will be an Art Studio where students' digital arts works will be on display and available to students for download. 
  • The second page will be for the download of lessons and assignments.
Ms Pollet @FILLMORE ARTS CENTER
Fillmore Arts Center has been an award winning Arts Elementary School in Washington DC for more than 40 years. I have been teaching digital arts and music at Fillmore for 19 of those years. Each day at Fillmore, students are received from their schools around the city to engage in 2 hours of comprehensive visual and performing arts electives. Typically a different school attends each day of the week. Choices include; band, strings, choir, general music, theater, dance, digital+media arts, ceramics, sculpture, Chinese brush painting, lego animation, and so much more. Many of our dedicated teachers are working artists. 
A Glimpse @ What I Teach in Digital Arts
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Photoshop CS6

Learners explore and experiment with Photoshop, developing skills in drawing, design, image editing, digital alternative processes and photography.

It is important for learners to become the creators of content & media so they have the opportunity to actively engage rather than only passively receive.
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Flash Animation CS6 

Learners explore and experiment with Flash Animation, developing skills in Frame by Frame and Tweening techniques. 

As learners are actively engaged they have the opportunity to self-direct and think as they learn skills, create, process, collaborate, produce, respond, deliver and connect.

StopMotion Animation & Movie Making

In collaborative groups, stop-motion learners explore and experiment with animation techniques, developing skills in Pre-Production, Production & Post Production; storyboarding, script writing, narrative, camera use, lighting, iMovie, Dragon Frame, Premiere Pro and more.
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Comic Life

Learners work independently or collaboratively to create comic strips or books, developing storyboarding and narrative skills.

BENEFITS OF COLLABORATION - PEER TO PEER STUDENT LED LEARNING

Collaboration affords learners the real-world opportunity to develop important life skills
- self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, responsible decision making -
​as they share and cooperate with ideas. 
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Kids are naturally curious and like to learn new fun things and make new fun friends. They are captivated by things that move and seem kid friendly like cartoons and animations. Let them form a team with other kids to make stop-motion animations and, with the proper guidance, they have the best of both worlds
FUN.FOUNDATION.FOCUS.FUTURE
​​Encouraging learners to reach out to each other to solve problems and share knowledge BUILDS collaboration skills and leads to deeper learning and understanding. Students gain key negotiation skills - stepping up, stepping back, stepping down - and develop important social skills as they realize that their neighbor is a resource. They test their OWN theories and come to understand whether or not they are on the right track. Collaborative learning empowers and enables a student's resilience --- [Student Learning Moment (SLM) resilience: the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.] They cultivate habits of mind that are the groundwork of deeper scholarship.

News

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5th Gd Student Wins Awards
in Cherry Blossom Contest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbTmAyHcKMg
Edwin works quietly at his iMac station with a focus beyond his years. He is in the 5th grade and attends my digital arts class every Tuesday. In 2015
I introduced the class to digital collage and stop motion animation. Edwin excelled at both. 

During the school year, throughout Washington DC, there are opportunities for our students to excel and step up to the next level. One of those is the Annual DC Collaborative sponsored DC Youth Art Cherry Blossom Contest. Each year I submit 5-7 student collage works. This year Edwin's collage was among those.  The entires from all students were exceptional. Edwin's collage won 1st Place in his group - grades 3-5, and also won the Peoples Choice Award from the entries posted on the contest FaceBook page where viewers could vote.

Some of Edwin's story
as written by Rebecca-Cooper Dupin ABC7:

"Every day to get to school, Edwin takes a one hour bus ride each way from his home in Anacostia to Marie Reed Elementary School. He is shy and had never been singled out for excellence in anything in his young life. So when he won this arts competition for the Cherry Blossom Festival, it meant the world to both Edwin and his hardworking mother.
But what the award really meant was much more than just a shot of confidence for this shy but bright young man. The digital arts class inspired in Edwin a passion for STEM learning he never had been exposed to before. With his family unable to afford it, Edwin had no access to high speed internet and computers at home. His school also wasn’t able to supply all the tools to truly ignite his STEM passions. It was Ms. Pollet and Fillmore that gave Edwin the desire, knowledge and tools to unlock this magical but important world of computers and creating."
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Summer Arts Camp Rocked! 
Fun.Community.Mad Skills
READ & RIDE Program
Let's Bring It To DCPS
During the summer eager kids all over the city look for something fun to do. Fillmore Summer Arts Workshops offer non-stop fun and engagement. The highlight of my year is working with the summer kids where I teach digital art and rock band. Summer 2015 was the best yet! 

The StopMotion kids created dry erase stories, 3D objects stories or mixed both using an onboard iMac iSite camera or digital camera on tripod. The digital arts lab AND school halls burst alive with self-paced, collaborative, silly, serious, thoughtful & thought-provoking movie makers, actors and engagement. These kids knocked it out of the park!! Soon I will upload some of their movies. A must see!!
"Scott Ertl was reading a book while riding a stationary bike at the gym when he had an idea. Like many busy adults, the only time he really got to read was when he squeezed it in while on an exercise bike."

Hmmm!!! Question: Would my digital arts students be able to do this, or a version of this, while working on their computer?

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  • Home
  • Key ES Digital Arts / Art
  • About
  • Student Work
    • Learn More
    • Selfie's-Digital Self-Portraits
    • Digital Collage
    • Digital Block Prints
    • ART & LITERACY - First Initial
    • Stop-Motion Animation + Movies
  • Lessons
  • Vocabulary
  • Student Survey
    • Ross Survey
    • Key Survey
    • Stoddert Survey
  • Talk To Me!!
  • Survey Poll
  • Contact
  • New Design Test
  • Text X App
  • NEW FAC Home