Art in 3-d for elementary classes

Well. Why would I ever buy an art ed dvd again? It’s all on here: art history lessons by the best of them with pictures and maps, how to do it films, philosophy, films that are artworks themselves, art appreciation. I looked at podcasts from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and from the [...]

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An interview with Kevin Kelly showed up on my Reader via Make Magazine. I watched the whole thing, fascinated. He covered the earth, and many of his thoughts were very provocative. He talked about the difference between biology, which can become extinct, and technology, which never becomes extinct. Any technology developed is still in use, [...]

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When the tagging system gets better (and I need to be better at it, myself!) Flickr will be an even more wonderful site than it currently is for use in the art classroom. For a few years I have used Google Images to assemble groups of pictures for use in my art classroom. We look [...]

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As a visual artist I have been interested in copyright issues for forty years now. There have been many changes in copyright laws and in my own attitude towards copyright. The point of view of a struggling artist thirty or forty years ago is hard to imagine in today’s climate, and I won’t even attempt [...]

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The wikis I explored were organized about the same way our sandbox wikis are organized. The 1001 Tales, the Code Blue and the Oregon Trail wikis were all fun to explore. Each had good content provided by the student participants. I can see that lots of learning was surely taking place, from creative writing to [...]

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Here is a great example of collaboration online. This robotically played circle of drums is lots of fun to watch and to hear, and when the names of the countries appear over the drums you can see that the musicians span the globe! Most of us have participated at some point with a spontaneous drum [...]

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Oh rapture! Oh joy! A way to organize my Edward Gorey collection and find other people who enjoy this dark, funny artist/writer is found in Library Thing. Thank you very much! I joined and listed my Goreys, and plan to list a couple of other small collections–maybe I’ll even do my art books, so I [...]

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Artus Erea has written a post in which  “creativity” is seen as separate from “art.” I agree. They are indeed two sides of a coin, and teaching and schools for the most part weight the coin on the “art” side. We can fomulate a curriculum and write lessons and structure classrooms to teach the history, [...]

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This was so much fun to do! Every year the Fifth Grade students in my art classes make small red clay heads, trying to make them realistic within the broad range of appearances that includes. This year after they were completed, students self-selected groups and planned what to say when we Blabberized the heads. Don [...]

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How great is this? I just had a tutorial about simple movie-making in my pajamas (had to go out and buy the pajamas, but I needed some anyway…) and learned a lot. But mostly I learned that it is possible to do it with what we have. I was reminded about the rule of thirds, [...]

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