Art in 3-d for elementary classes

We just finished hanging the 19th Lower School Every Student Art Show. When we say Every Student, we mean it, and there are nearly 500 of them working under three art teachers. So accounting for the work and making sure each student is represented is part of the task. This year I made a Google spreadsheet the three of us could share to keep up with the work as it was installed. If I had been a more competent Docs user, it would have been better, but this was very much easier than the old way of walking down the hall with a clipboard after it was all up, and finding the missing students. We projected it from the computer and checked off names before the boards left the workroom.

I can see a communal spreadsheet as useful in the classroom as well, for charting progress individually or in groups. I can’t help but imagine a class bird count, or insect count, that made use of a communal spreadsheet.

For years I have given out “Artistic Licenses”, and they can be even more spiffy done on Google Docs. All kinds of awards and certificates would be fun to make, and could even be assigned as an art project.