Art in 3-d for elementary classes

Classroom 2.0 was disappointing in comparison to other segments of this course. Many of the Nings were not active and had not been active for some time. A number of the entries I read were full of spelling and grammatical errors. I found lots of requests for help from new teachers, and only marginal replies [...]

[Read more]

Pageflakes is like a quilt of a page, and just as busy. My Pageflakes page includes several art museum feeds, and I heard back from one of them with suggestions for others. I tried to include a great drawing program my son developed for homework, but was unable to do that. I can see a [...]

[Read more]

I set up my Delicious site and gathered quite a few great Youtubes, some relating to arcology and some relating to claymation, and one of my historic faves of a drum contest between the Muppet Animal and the famous drummer, Buddy Rich. I have not been able to get them over to the k12learning20 list, [...]

[Read more]

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 [...]

[Read more]

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 [...]

[Read more]

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, [...]

[Read more]

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 [...]

[Read more]

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 [...]

[Read more]

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 [...]

[Read more]

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 [...]

[Read more]