"Using technology to demonstrate teaching
and learning is the best way for educators to prove that they
are using technology to enhance teaching and learning."
Presentations
Remote
Interviews with Skype - NJECC
Presentation on using Skype, March, 2007
Poetry
In Motion NAEA Presentation, NYC, March, 2007 - Volunteers
from the session were given lines from a poem to dramatize.
The dramatizations were videotaped and transferred to iMovie.
I demonstrated the process of editing the video and adding
graphics, titles and credits. I created a QuickTime video
of the performance that is posted on the web. To
see the video and learn more about the presentation click
here. This session gave attendees a step-by-step experience
of working with digital video. They experienced the entire
process from start to finish. Examples of my work with
students and digital video may be seen at: http://www.wyckoffschools.org/eisenhower/teachers/olejarz/digitalvideo/index.html
Digital
Imaging Presentation at the National Art Education
Association Annual Meeting in Boston, March, 2005.
Digital
Video in the Art Room - - Developments
in digital video and software give art teachers and their
students an opportunity to produce professional video projects.
Student video projects and an introduction to iMovie will
be presented. Comparable PC software information will also
be available. Presented at the National Art Education Association
Annual Conference, April, 2004 and the Art Educators of
New Jersey Annual Conference, 2003
NJECC
Presentation - From Prints to Pixels - The Evolving Digital
Image - Digital cameras, scanners, imaging software, printers, computers
and the internet empower students and teachers to use images
more effectively than traditional film based photographs.
One picture may be worth a thousand words, but a digital
image may be used in thousands of ways and seen by thousands
of people. This presentation explores some of the possibilities
of digital images in education. March 11, 2003
Digital
Imaging with Photoshop Elements and KidPix - Links
to tutorials and lesson plans that use Photoshop Elements
and KidPix, two popular digital imaging applications. March,
2003
Developing
an Art Web Site for your School District - A
web site should demonstrate that students, teachers and
administrators have an understanding of the capabilities
of technology and are able to use it to enhance learning,
promote creativity, solve problems and communicate effectively
as well as increase productivity. Presented to the Art
Administrators of NJ, March, 2002
Digital
Imaging - An introduction to
Digital Imaging based on the middle school classes I have
taught. Presented at the Art Educators of NJ's Annual Conference,
October, 2001.
Creating
Student Web Portfolios - An
outline of how to set up web portfolios for the students
in your classes. Presented at the Art Educators of NJ's
Annual Conference, October, 2000.
Publications and Essays
Drawing
in One-Point Perspective - This
site has over one hundred pages of animations and illustrations
that introduce the principles of one-point perspective
and provide step-by-step instructions for drawing objects
in one-point perspective. August, 1999
One-Point Perspective
Handouts, Interactive CDs and Interactive DVDs are now
available.
Seventh-Grade Perspective Drawings - examples of my students'
one-point perspective drawings.(site no longer available)
Perspective
Resources on the WWW - links
to pages with historical information, examples of images
and examples of student perspective drawings.
One-Point
Perspective Handouts, Interactive CDs and Interactive
DVDs are now available
Integrating
Technology into the Art Curriculum -
Discussion of using technology as a creative tool, presentation
tool, for computer assisted instruction and as a virtual
learning environment. Fall, 1996.
"Capturing the Moving Present," an
essay by Harold Olejarz, is included in Video
Art for the Classroom, a National Art Education Association
publication. “An
Art Teacher's Guide to the Internet,” a textbook
by Craig Roland, includes material written by Olejarz on
the artist interview project done by his sixth-grade digital
video students. “Open
Source Software is Geek-Speak for Free,” a guide
to free software available on the Internet by Harold Olejarz
was included in the online edition of SchoolArts Magazine. Telling
Tales with Video was included in the October, 2006 issue
of SchoolArts Magazine. Download a sample of the Digital
Media e-Guide Olejarz wrote for Davis Publications. The
e-Guide contains an overview of hardware and software of
interest to art educators.
Digital
Media e-Guide - Information about today's digital tools
for the art room. This introduction to technology tools
for the art room was written as a supplement to The Visual
Experience, by Jack Hobbs, Richard A. Salome, and Ken Vieth.
The Digital Media e-Guide is available as PDF files from
the Davis
Publications website. PDFs include: Hardware
overview—from hard drives and printers to digital
cameras and digital video cameras. Software overview—from
drawing and painting software to animation and Web publishing
software
NAEA
Publication No. 215 | Video Art for the Classroom
This anthology features contributions from over 18 video artists
and educators including Harold Olejarz. Each contributing author
offers a diverse approach to the use of video art with students.
This book offers examples spanning a broad range of various
technological levels, and projects ranging from the shoebox "camera" to
actual animation, documentary, broadcast journalism, and more.
Each chapter relays a distinct account of how video art was
and can be used successfully in the K-12 classroom or community
to make art come alive—regardless of budget or technological
savvy. George and Ilona Szekely, Editors
Developing
a School Web Site - A school's web site reflects the
culture, values and vision of the institution. It should
demonstrate that students, teachers, administrators, parents,
and support staff have an understanding of the capabilities
of technology and are able to use it to enhance learning,
promote creativity, solve problems and communicate effectively
as well as increase productivity. June, 2001
How
to Use the Internet to Communicate with Your Audiences -
This talk was presented to the New Jersey School Public
Relations Association Spring Workshop. It focuses on using
school and district web sites to demonstrate the excellence
of a school district. April, 1999
Middle
School Web Site as a Virtual Bulletin Board - This
essay,written in November, 1998, describes the eight major
areas of the BF web site I designed as my sabbatical project.
Integrating
Technology into the Art Curriculum - Discussion of
using technology as a creative tool, presentation tool,
for computer assisted instruction and as a virtual learning
environment. Fall, 1996.
The
Computer as a Presentation Tool - The beauty of a computer
is that it is a file cabinet, a display case and a digital
darkroom all in one. Text, images and sounds may be digitized
for storage and manipulation in the computer and then presented
using the computer.
Curriculum
Eisenhower Middle School, Wyckoff, NJ, September, 2001 to present - The home page for the classes I
am presently teaching.
Digital Imaging - Seventh-grade students
use digital cameras, scanners, imaging software, printers
and computers to explore the artistic potential of new
imaging technology and solve visual problems. Students
learn how to plan and produce digital images that demonstrate
an understanding of composition, light, color, visual impact
and art history. Hands-on projects include digital painting,
digital photography, image capture, image manipulation
and graphic design problems.
Digital Video - Students learn to
become more media literate. They learn to plan and produce
video projects, decode images and messages within media
and decide what makes a powerful and effective message.
Students develop interview skills, public speaking skills
and learn to interpret and dramatize poetry.
TV Production - ETV Morning News -
Eighth-grade students in this class produce the ETV Morning
News show every school day. The show is broadcast to all
Eisenhower classrooms and the general public on a local
cable channel.. Each show includes morning announcements
and feature stories of interest to Eisenhower students
and the Wyckoff community.
Information
Literacy Wiki - Course wiki developed with Ms. Sloan,
Eisenhower Library/Media Specialist.
Technology
6-1 - Grade six introductory technology course wiki
developed with Angelo Bonavitacola and Marc DeBlock.
Technology
7-1 - Grade seven introductory technology course
wiki developed with Angelo Bonavitacola and Marc DeBlock.
Staff Development
Creating
and Managing a Class Web Site
This course assists Eisenhower teachers in creating and managing
their own class web site using templates. Teachers' web sites
will include: class resource pages with links to relevant web
sites, on-line handouts, PowerPoint presentations, exemplary
student work and other curriculum information. Teachers will
learn to develop resource pages, post curriculum and include
PowerPoint presentations on the web site. Teachers will also
learn to upload files to the web server and manage their own
web site. Teachers will integrate their web site with their
teaching for their class project. January, 2004
Staff
Development Classes - A listing of classes developed
and taught at the Ridgewood Institute For Professional
Development in association with Fairleigh Dickinson University.
1995 - 1998
Special Projects
The Rail
Quilt - A public art commission
for New Jersey Transit created with students from Visual
Arts High School in Jersey City.
Public Art in a Public
School - This eighth-grade project in which students
submit proposals for a school door mural won a State of
New Jersey Best Practice Award in 1995.
The Performance
Art Team - I combined my interest in performance
art and my teaching by forming a "Performance Art
Team" with middle school students.
Web Sites
Wyckoff Education
Association - I designed and
maintain this site.
Professor
S. Koslow - I provided initial design assistance for
this site and ongoing technical support.
Art Educators
of New Jersey - The AENJ site
is New Jersey Art Educators place on the web. I created
and posted the site in April, 1997, and maintained it until
2002.
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