Art in 3-d for elementary classes

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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We look at monuments in my classes, especially Fourth Grade, and design our own. So finding pics of monuments was a natural for me, and this is a fun way to introduce a few different kinds. There is a monumental obelisk, a city entryway, a monument to a hero,
and a classic equestrian monument.  [...]

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My daughter and I went to Derry this summer. We rode the bus up the west side of Ireland, sometimes along the coast, and sometimes through the towns and countryside. We took lots of pictures and some of them are on Flickr. I love keeping up with my daughter’s travels and life through the photos [...]

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I am enjoying browsing Google Reader. Now I see where my son gets many of the great articles he sends me. I have subscribed to Make Magazine on my reader, and the posts on it are right up my alley. I am also loving Blue Skunk Blog. New York Times Arts not so much. I [...]

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I come from a long line of lifelong learners. I don’t believe there is any other way to be. Reading widely, studying the world around, discussing issues and non-issues with friends and family are all part of my life. Taking a course is the easiest way to learn something like technical innovations, and I have [...]

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I read a variety of the suggested posts and found them all interesting. It isn’t the kind of reading I would choose to do every day, but it was fun to see what the third graders wrote about the lost duck , and to know that we are all as good as on CNN every [...]

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Web 2.0 encourages cooperative learning, it seems to me, and collaboration. This is how the real world operates, rather than the competitive model of learning that bogs us down and teaches us that we are not as good or not as smart (or smarter and better) over and over again. Our ability to offer and [...]

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