Creativity in Your ISN

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Creativity in Your ISN

• How to go from blah to spectacular

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Problem Areas

• Lack of completeness (assignments not finished)
• Lack of color
• Misuse of color
• Sloppiness
• Lack of creativity

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Getting off the Ground Floor

• BEFORE you begin to add creativity to your ISN,
  make sure the basics are covered
• All assignments are completed to the BEST of your
  ability
• Assignments are written neatly and legibly
• There are no extraneous doodles/marks

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ISNs What Not to Wear

• Heavy, dark marker or crayon is NOT attractive
• One color all over the page isyawn!boring!
• Season-specific items (Halloween pumpkins,
  Christmas presents) are not the best choice
• Scribblescan we say, bad hair day?

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ISNs The Latest Fashion

• Are colorful with diagrams, bullets and arrows
• Are in pencil and crayon
• Are presented in a unique, personal style
• Key ideas are underlined in color or highlighted
• Thinking maps organize information
• Cartoon sketches show people and events
• Timelines illustrate chronology
• Arrows show relationships

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ISNs Theyre Not All Alike
Annotated Illustrations
Provocative Statements--opinions
CD Covers
T-charts
Tables
Illustrated Outlines
Illustrated Dictionaries
Facial Expressions
Postcards
Illustrated Timelines
Wheels
Annotated Slides
Perspectives
Report Cards
Annotated Maps
Charts and Graphs
Mosaics
Posters
Book Covers
Invitations
Flow Charts
Advertisements
Collages
Cartoons or Comic Strips
Historical Journals
Eulogies
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Taking Your ISN to the Next Level

• Creativity, creativity, creativity
• You are uniquely YOU. Show me how unique and
  different you are by designing gorgeous, creative
  pages for your ISN.
• Designs that relate to the topic on the page are
  superior to generic designs (Texas flags, shape
  of the state, etc.)
• Designs that call attention to the information on
  the page without obscuring it are best

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What the Best Dressed ISNs are Wearing This Season

• OK, so its time to kick your ISN up a notch, as
  Emeril would say
• How do you do that? Lets look at some student
  examples!

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Sensory Figures
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Thinking Maps
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Acrostic Poems
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Comic Strips
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Venn Diagrams
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Unit Cover Pages
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Unit Cover Pages
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Unit Cover Pages
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Unit Cover Pages
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Unit Cover Pages
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Unit Cover Pages
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Creative Thinking Maps
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Creative Thinking Maps
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Creative Thinking Maps
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Creative Thinking Maps
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Other Assignments Pages
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Other Assignment Pages
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Other Assignment Pages
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Other Assignment Pages
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Other Assignment Pages
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Other Assignment Pages
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ISNs The Future

• So youve kicked it up a notch and your ISN is
  creative. How do you knock my socks off? How can
  you go from great to spectacular?
• Wheres the next stop for ISNs? Try these pages
  on for size!

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Credits

• Student examples are taken from Mrs. Richards
  class, Piner Middle School, Sherman, TX
• Art Journal samples (ISN of the Future) taken
  from Laurie Gatlin, Plainfield, IN
  (http//firstclass.plainfield.k12.in.us/Laurie_Ga
  tlin/FOV1-00010C8E/ArtJournal.htm)