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11.30.2011
Best educational use of a social network: Art Education 2.0
Art Ed 2.0 has been in existence for about 5 years and has grown to 10,000 members. It is used by thousands of art teachers on a daily basis, and is not just an amazing resource in itself, but a critical starting point for many art teachers who have begun to integrate technology into their classroom. In my humble opinion, there is no better example of a collaborative website that has transformed so many classrooms from without.
Moving on, I am renominating some of the sites I had nominated last year, not just because these are some of my favorite sites, but because they have grown and developed in such interesting ways. For example, Tricia Fuglestad's Fugleflicks has developed and grown in its new home at Dryden Art. Kim Sajan's (bias admitted) Art is Messy has developed from a resource sharing / elementary art blog into a resource sharing / high school blog with great exemplar lessons that Kim uses with her Graphic Design, Art II, and Yearbook classes.
I'm also nominating some new ones, like ameria [blog] a jaw-droppingly amazing guide to creating great A-Level Art (which is the New Zealand curriculum, but practical to IB or AP students as well, and inspirational to just about anyone).
Best Individual Blog: The Art Teacher's Guide to the Internet
Best group blog: The Teaching Palette
Best new blog: ameria [blog]: A Level Art
Best class blog: ISB IB Fine Arts
Best resource sharing blog: Learning IT
Best teacher blog: Art is Messy
Best librarian / library blog: Tech Library Classroom
Best educational tech support blog: The Thinking Stick
Best educational use of video / audio / podcast: Dryden Art
Best educational wiki: Ib Art Online Studio
Best educational use of a social network: Art Education 2.0
11.29.2011
Of course, this is indeed a perfect exercise for any surrealist project, and since we're working on a certain international collaborative surrealist project, I've converted the list of techniques into a slideshow.
Transformation: Operational Techniques
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These techniques have helped my students develop a wide range of imaginative responses in my IB Art class, and so I've also turned this into a handy booklet. Feel free to print it out and use it with the Surrealistic Me project... or anything else that your students are working on. In order to print it out properly, change the properties in your printer settings under 'layout'. You'll see a place to select 'two sided printing'. Under that drop down tab, choose 'short edge binding'. Print, fold, viola!
These techniques have helped my students develop a wide range of imaginative responses in my IB Art class, and so I've also turned this into a handy booklet. Feel free to print it out and use it with the Surrealistic Me project... or anything else that your students are working on. In order to print it out properly, change the properties in your printer settings under 'layout'. You'll see a place to select 'two sided printing'. Under that drop down tab, choose 'short edge binding'. Print, fold, viola!
11.28.2011
If you're planning on participating in the Rotoball 2012 and/or Surrealistic Me international collaborative projects, please take a moment to register your classes at these survey sites. It just helps us keep our information better organized and it makes getting back in touch with you easier as well. Thanks!
11.22.2011
11.21.2011
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| Surrealistic Me by Ying Ying |
Let's face it, you're probably teaching surrealism anyway.
Maybe you're already approaching it in the form of a self portrait. If you are, great! Submit! Its free and we'd love to include your students work. If not, Why not adapt your project and make it work in our book? Students will submit surrealistic self portraits, the end result of which will be a cross section of surreal students from around the world. Similar to our earlier projects, the final selected images will be published in book form, the profits of which will again benefit the Jacaranda Foundation for AIDS orphans in Malawi. Those books, by the way, are still available.
No? Teaching film, video... animation? Something along the moving-image lines? We got you covered. The Rotoball Project is back for 2012- our fifth year as an international collaborative project!
Join us, won't you? These big international collaborative projects give students the opportunity to see how other students in other parts of the world respond to similar creative challenges and connects students through a love of art-making.
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What was Marcel Duchamp doing for the 20 years after he had 'given up' making art...? This was one of my earliest revelations about the mysteries of art. Growing up in Philadelphia, I passed these doors many times before I realized there was more to them than meets the eye. That was due, in part, that for many of those years I wasn't tall enough to see through the peepholes. I probably didn't even realize they were there.
11.15.2011
We're back at our Perspective Towers project in our Foundations Art class, and just for fun, I showed the class Dick Termes' great explanation of 1 though 6 point perspective. Until now, I've taught 1-3, and for fun I showed them how to do 4 this year. To be honest, I'd never given 5 or 6 point perspective much thought, but one of my ninth graders, Esther, got really into the idea of pushing this project further and figured out 5 point perspective on her own. In order to demonstrate it to the class, she found this fantastic video -which we'll watch tomorrow.
Meanwhile, Esther's on to figuring out 6 point perspective (which apparently involves drawing on a sphere). I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around it, but she's determined...
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