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DoSomething.org, a non-profit organization that encourages youth under 25 to take action and volunteer in their communities, is sponsoring a campaign called Make Art. Save Art. in collaboration with Hewlett-Packard to promote the importance of art education in schools. The contest asks young people (under the age of 25) to create and submit PC wallpapers . . . → Read More: Join the Make Art, Save Art Campaign What is Art? from Joseph B May on Vimeo. Start the school year by playing this video (or a portion of it) to your students. It was produced by Allied Arts, a non-profit united arts fund and arts council in Chattanooga, Tennessee for a recent local campaign and website titled What Is Art 2 Me. . . . → Read More: What Does Art Mean to You? Some of the more interesting things I’ve discovered on the Web over the years have been found while just poking around the Web. Take this morning. I started by checking out what Scottish art teacher Davidt Dunlop has been up to on his blog, The Art Classroom. That’s where I learned about 12-year-old Chloe Livingston who . . . → Read More: Imagine a world without prejudice . . . iboy_daniel, CC Attribution License Summer is winding down, and preparations for the start of a new school year are occurring all over the U.S. right now. To mark the occasion, here are a dozen or so links for both experienced art teachers and those starting on their teacher career. To start, I want to give a shout . . . → Read More: Back to School Links |
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Web Sightings for September 2010
With Fall classes now underway, I spent some time this past week rummaging around the Web looking for resources that I can share with my students and with you’all here the ATGI. Following are my keepers.
In A Teaching Moment, Joan Wickersham illustrates how a great teacher saying the right thing at the right . . . → Read More: Web Sightings for September 2010