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Lego Explorer photo by kennymatic, CC Attribution License Let’s get 2010 rolling here on The Art Teacher’s Guide with over a dozen new sites to check out: First up, it seems appropriate to start this new decade out with a brief look back at the history of the Internet and 12 things that became obsolete this decade. While . . . → Read More: Web Sightings for January 2010 ISTE estimates that there were over 18,000 participants at this year’s National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in Washington DC. It certainly seemed that many were in line when I went to get coffee Monday morning at Starbucks in the Conference Center! Keith Jarrett described NECC as a freight train. Aptly put. He also refers to “the . . . → Read More: Reflections on My NECC/DC Experience: Part 2 I made a subtle change in the sub-heading of this blog a while back that probably went unnoticed by the causal reader: I inserted “post-digital age” where is once read “digital age.” At the time, I didn’t consider it to be a radical enough change to warrant explanation. But, the more I’ve thought about it, . . . → Read More: Pausing for a post-digital moment . . . I just came off doing two presentations at NAEA on bringing digital participatory media (aka Web 2.0 tools) into the art curriculum, each of which garnered quite different responses (at least on the surface). While the group at my Friday morning talk appeared largely supportive of my call for making more space in the K-12 . . . → Read More: On finding balance in the art curriculum . . . |
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Check out The Art Machine
What happens when two art teachers connect their classrooms via technology and combine their teaching, curriculum, and resources in an innovative way? Two Utah middle school art teachers have created one possible answer: The Art Machine.
The Art Machine is a collaborative effort between Christian Fasy and Brad Asay, two Ogden, Utah middle-school art teachers . . . → Read More: Check out The Art Machine