Great art speaks powerfully, inspires fresh thinking, and connects us to our past. As a teacher with a degree in art and who is passionate about it, I am excited.
To access the resources, Book and Images,
Resource Book (it is basically a step-by-step guide)
PowerPoint of the Images- scroll to the bottom of the page to access the download link.
Picturing America, an exciting new initiative from the National Endowment for the Humanities, brings masterpieces of American art into classrooms and libraries nationwide. Through this innovative program, students and citizens will gain a deeper appreciation of our country’s history and character through the study and understanding of its art.
The nation’s artistic heritage—our paintings, sculpture, architecture, fine crafts, and photography—offers unique insights into the character, ideals, and aspirations of our country.
Picturing America, a far-reaching new program from the National Endowment for the Humanities in cooperation with the American Library Association, brings this vital heritage to all Americans.
By bringing high-quality reproductions of notable American art into public and private schools, libraries, and communities, Picturing America gives participants the opportunity to learn about our nation’s history and culture in a fresh and engaging way. The program uses art as a catalyst for the study of America—the cultural, political, and historical threads woven into our nation’s fabric over time.
Collectively, the masterpieces in Picturing America, used in conjunction with the Teachers Resource Book and program Web site, help students experience the humanity of history and enhance the teaching and understanding of America’s past.”
Win 3 free trips to your school’s annual D.C. tour, graduation trips, performing arts excursion or destination of your choosing.
To Enter:
1. Sign up as a FREE TeachHUB member
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2. Email:
- Picture from outrageous ed adventure
- Describe your field trip in 100 words or less
- Name, school & contact info to me at acondron@teachhub.com
Photo Guidelines: You can use photos from a out-of-this-world class trip, an interesting, in-class speaker, extraordinary activity, or mockup a photo with you and your class on a dream field trip.
Deadline: Monday, October 11, 2010 at 12 p.m. CST
Finalists will be chosen based on how fun, unique and educational their photo entry is.
TeachHUB visitors will vote to decide the Educational Adventure Photo Contest champion . The winner will be announced Tuesday, October 26.
http://www.teachhub.com/school-trip-contest
Corliss Blakely, Vermont artist is painting on the iPhone & iPad, which has “opened up a new world for artists,” as she puts it. Corliss has translated her realistic style in oils to the new technologies, stating, “the world is changing and artists now have a wonderful new canvas to create on.” Corliss purchased an iPad at Small Dog the day they came out, and was the first artist in the world to display an iPad painting on the internet!
The iPad is a mobile studio: artists can now create without the toxic paints and mediums they have used for centuries.
Her favorite painting app on the iPad is ArtStudio.
Visit her website at www.ipadpaintings.com to see her paintings and demonstrations.
Wow!!!! I am so excited, my daughter lived in New York City a year ago, so I was lucky enough to spend time wandering around in the MoMa multiple times that year when I went to visit. MoMa just released a free App for Apple’s mobile devices like the ipad and iPhone and iPod Touch. You can see the museum’s enormous collection of modern art, along with other interesting museum content. There is a calendar of events that includes exhibitions and film schedules. The mobile tours part is what you use when you actually visit the museum. The Info screen provides museum hours, admission, a floor plan, and much more.
Of course being at the museum in person is always the better, but the Art category of the app is pretty darn good. The catalog of the museum’s collection gives information and high quality images of every piece to ever pass through the MoMA’s doors. Art can be searched by artist, collection, and exhibition. It also has a comprehensive “Art Terms” section. The only downside to the app is that due to its small size, it relies on a Wi-Fi or 3G connection to load the majority of its content.
Boy this could really be useful to an art teacher (which is was at one point)!! Here is the link to the MoMa main website too: http://www.moma.org/
You can download the app here
July 2nd 2010 By Tom Cullen of Asylum.com
I can’t image and art teacher not loving this!!
“Geekgasm! How perfect does this portrait look. Hand painted? Yes. With a paint brush? No. It’s all done on iPad‘s Brushes application by New York artist David Kassan — using his fingers. An epic, three-hour paint session has been condensed into a seven-minute YouTube clip, which captures the extraordinary process. A recent tweet by British actor Stephen Fry helped the video to over 300,000 views. Kassan sites the “sheer conceptual and executed realism” of Caravaggio as one of his influences. We’re pretty confident Caravaggio didn’t have this app. Keep reading to see the video, then head here for more examples of his work.“
Your pencil can reach the world.. from Kevin Honeycutt’s blog Triadigital Learning
This morning I had a fun conversation with Kevin Honeycutt via Skype, I was home in my comfy chair, looking a mess because I had just returned from exercising. I mean a mess!! So, if you watch the podcast, be prepared!.
Kevin was stranded in the airport in Minneapolis waiting for a flight. We had our normal catching up conversation about what we are doing and then we always share resources. Needless to say, that is always the rich part for me.
First we did a little podcast promoting the Celebrate Kansas Voices workshop in August. I am sure he will get it uploaded to his Driving Questions Podcast when he gets home, or maybe to his YouTube site.
What is CKV?
Celebrate Kansas Voices presented by Story Chasers, Inc. (a nonprofit) and other partner organizations. CKV is a statewide digital storytelling project empowering learners to become digital witnesses, archiving local oral history and sharing that history safely on the global stage of the Internet. Our project is starting in 2010, based on the successful Celebrate Oklahoma Voices project which started in 2006. They have trained over 500 teacher in Oklahoma and have 16+ workshops this summer. Out goal is the same, train all the teachers in Kansas.
Join our Ning site and keep updated on developments or register to attend the firs of many workshop in August. Apply online to participate in the August 4-6, 2010 “Celebrate Kansas Voices” workshop at Kansas State University in Manhattan! More info is available.
By the way, if you are from another state and what to attend, please come!! We would love to have you.
After our CKV conversation for his podcast, he stopped recording and he told me about his Art Snacks YouTube phone call. Actually, it was more about his amazement that YouTube called him about his Shark Drawing video. ArtSnacks Great White Shark: This an many other lessons on ArtSnacks.org
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uToNXv0Gik0
School change: Push versus pull, My Kids Turn
I’ve been reading a lot lately about how our world is changing from a “push” approach, to a “pull” approach. I’ve heard a couple of good examples of the old “push” method, TV and education. The TV executives make a command decision about which programs you get to watch. What day they are on, what time they are on, and if they will continued be on.
In the “pull” world you set your DVR and watch it whenever you want, furthermore, you can fast-forward through the commercials if you want. But the real “pull” world is YouTube. You can search for almost anything, and watch at any time, just about anything you want. There are no elites deciding what you get to see when you get to see it, it’s all up to you.
Another good example of the old-style “push” world is education. Our students are told what they have to take, when they have to take it, with very little if any choice. We have elite individuals who have decided what THE “standards” need to be for every child, and most of our curriculum in K-12 schools is mandated by colleges.
I’m very proud of the project my colleagues at ESSDACK have launched. It is truly a “pull” approach. The name of the project, and the website, are My Kids Turn. Each of the six programs, soon to be expanded to 10, contains video clips designed to help parents with the educational needs of their kids.
Jane Seward’s channel is called Magic Spell, and is intended for parents who want help their children become better spellers. Michelle Flaming’s channel is called By The Numbers, and is designed to give parents strategies to help their kids understand and love math. Reneé Smith and Jaime Hendricks team up on Just Deserts. Just Deserts gives parents table games that can be played with their kids at meal time, that support and enrich their learning at school.
Jodi Case has developed Learn, Grow, and Bloom, which is designed for parents with toddlers through pre-school with language and speaking, build pre–reading and math skills. Great Games, Better Brains is produced by Glenn Wiebe and Jaime Hendricks and helps parents explore the wild and woolly world of video games for their children, from an educational point of view. And finally, Kevin Honeycutt is featured in Raising Digital Kids. Kevin is a national presenter who often speaks on Internet safety and the use of technology by kids.
We are betting that, in the 21st century, the world will continue becoming a “pull” world. We believe that the use of “pull” approaches to learning will lead to real school change. Check out the website and see what you think. Can you imagine your school, or your classroom, or your children’s learning experience becoming customized and individualized through new technologies? – Steve Wyckoff
Here is a cool resource that TheresaMcGee created in LiveBinder. 17 different art game sited, likned all from one spot.: Destination Modern Art, NGA Kids, Tate Kids, Curious Corner, Mr. Picassohead, Learn About Color, The Dancers and Degas, Are you Art Smart?, Matisse for Kids!, Matisses Pieces, Haring Kids, Eye-Spy, Detail Detective, Surreal Painter, Plant Sculpture, Architect Studio 3D, from the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust, Da Vinci Puzzles
http://livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=2266
This set of resources was created using LiveBindsa. A pretty cool tool, for easily collecting and sharing resources.
LiveBinders is dedicated to helping you empower others with the information you worked hard to collect.
If you’re like us, you’ve used ‘creative’ tactics to keep track of all these links either through email, word documents or endless lists in your browser bookmarks folder. It is hard to put a bunch of links together in any meaningful format. And sharing a group of URLs is cumbersome for everyone – the sender and the receiver. Have you ever looked through your bookmarks list and forgotten what they are all for?
We created LiveBinders so that you could do with digital information what you do with the papers on your desk – organize them into nice containers – like 3-ring binders on your shelf.
At LiveBinders we welcome you to use not just one binder, but as many binders as you need to help organize the stuff you collect and share over the internet.
I KNOW THAT!
Includes simple to use tools to dramatically enhance children’s learning.
http://www.iknowthat.com/com
At IKnowThat.com, the mission is to ignite a love of lifelong learning in every child by harnessing Internet multimedia and social communication to produce an environment for engaging, interactive, and dynamic Learning. Tee site’s content can be categorized into five types: fun learning, open-ended creative activities with project saving and showing; user-generated content areas; educational videos; and a massively multiplayer virtual world. Activities are offered in the major subject areas fro elementary grades: math. language arts, science, social studies, and the arts. All f the activities are based on educational standards and cover hundreds of topics.
