M6- Making a Wiki

M6: Making a Wiki (is so incredibly hard to me!)

Wiki: I hope one day to have a Wiki as fabulous as Mrs. Peterson’s from AST Elementary School. I love how you can click on the pictures on the Homepage or on the side tabs to get to the different grade levels.

http://ast-elementary-art.wikispaces.com/

 

Podcasts: I thought these podcasts from the Smithsonian Institute’s Student Podcast Series were very useful because it’s elementary aged kids discussing famous artists’ work. This would be a great tool for my students to use to learn how to talk about art. They could actually see how they (elementary schoolers) use art terms to talk about artwork!

Herbie H. on Roy Lichtenstein’s “Sweet Dreams Baby!”

http://americanart.si.edu/education/activities/podcasts/denton_ave/denton_ave_2011/herbie_h_denton_2011.m4v

Angela W. on Edward Hopper’s "Cape Cod Morning"

http://americanart.si.edu/education/activities/podcasts/denton_ave/denton_ave_2011/angela_w_denton_2011.m4v

Social Bookmarking Site: It was difficult for me to find a someone’s social bookmarking site relating to art education. This is Roy Hawkin's site. He was getting his Masters in Art Education major at The University of Tennessee a few years ago.

https://www.diigo.com/profile/roychawk

 

Widgets: This part was the hardest for me simply because none of my Widgets will work. This one listed below (likely still with HTML code visible, but not the widget) is very neat and one of my favorites I found for Elementary Art Students. You pick out different staple objects of well-known Keith Herring’s graffiti-style art work and create your own graffiti art! Very do-able & fun for K-5. I’ve also included the website address on the next line so you can see the widget if HTML doesn’t work.

http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/GraffitiArtist

“Graffiti Artist” HTML…..

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://cdn.widgetserver.com/syndication/subscriber/InsertWidget.js"></script><script type="text/javascript">if (WIDGETBOX) WIDGETBOX.renderWidget('dc93b801-ba39-4a90-a286-e6639afc65f2');</script>

<noscript>Get the <a href="http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/GraffitiArtist">Graffiti Artist by Abrakadoodle.com</a> widget and many other <a href="http://www.widgetbox.com/">great free widgets</a> at <a href="http://www.widgetbox.com">Widgetbox</a>! Not seeing a widget? (<a href="http://support.widgetbox.com/">More info</a>)</noscript>

My other widget is a Google Calendar. Now that parents are becoming more and more in sync with their children’s school lives via technology, a calendar seemed like a great idea! I can post topics & brief descriptions of what we’ll be doing in art every week so they hopefully will engage with their children and ask them, “What was your favorite thing about drawing a still life in art today?”

https://www.google.com/calendar/render?pli=1

 

The Classroom Management Documents were not only one of my favorite projects we’ve made but I learned a lot about utilizing templates in unexpected places. I honestly never would have thought to browse PowerPoint’s templates for to make a flyer. I would have used Microsoft Word. The newer versions of these programs have very nice looking templates.

I loved learning about  Zoho Show & Prezi this semester. I liked Zoho because of it’s ability to share presentations over the internet for parents, students, administrators etc. to see. What I liked about Prezi was the layout. When you look at that first image, it’s essentially a “virtual map” for the information about to be presented. I like that it zooms in on what you need it to when it’s time and it is also easily sharable.