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A blog created by art teachers for art teachers that shares tons of ideas to help make your classroom better. It focuses on technology integration in the art room and has information to keep art teachers up to date on things going on in the field currently. 

Interesting article about how technology is changing art and whether digital art can be considered art.

This amazing resources has links to a slew of over 85 art and technology resources on the web dealing not just with art education but also museum education and visual culture.

Art in content areas

"Censorship in the classroom: Understanding controversial issues\n\nhttp://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=203\n\nA lesson plan for grades 9-12 English Language Arts and Information Skills\nLearn more\n\n * Learn more about banned books, biases, censorship, language arts, media, persuasive writing, propaganda, reading, stereotypes, and writing.\n\nHelp\n\nPlease read our disclaimer for lesson plans.\nLegal\n\nPrint\n\n * Print\n\nShare\n\n * Email\n * Delicious Delicious\n * Digg Digg\n * Facebook Facebook\n * StumbleUpon StumbleUpon\n\nIt is important for young people to understand their individual rights and what they, as citizens, can do to protect these rights. In addition, young people need to understand the way in which bias and stereotyping are used by the media to influence popular opinion. In this ReadWriteThink lesson, students examine propaganda and media bias and explore a variety of banned and challenged books, researching the reasons these books have been censored. Following this research, students choose a side of the censorship issue and support their position through the development of an advertising campaign.\nNorth Carolina Curriculum Alignment\nEnglish Language Arts (2004)\nGrade 9\n\n * Goal 3: The learner will examine argumentation and develop informed opinions.\n o Objective 3.01: Study argument by:\n + examining relevant reasons and evidence.\n + noting the progression of ideas that substantiate the proposal.\n + analyzing style, tone, and use of language for a particular effect.\n + identifying and analyzing personal, social, historical, or cultural influences contexts, or biases.\n + identifying and analyzing rhetorical strategies that support proposals.\n\nGrade 10\n\n * Goal 3: The learner will defend argumentative positions on literary or nonliterary issues.\n o Objective 3.01: Examine controversial is

Incorporate art activities into your English language arts lessons, and your students will have so much fun! Use these resources to introduce new concepts or reinforce ELA topics your students have already learned.

Integrating arts into other subject areas in schools.

This article describes six creative, innovative art projects students can complete using Twitter. Students can explore how to combine content from various sources and turn words into visuals through these projects. #EdTechSN

An online portfolio maker for high school students and art teachers. This site has a ton of great resources for both parties and also features that help students look at art schools online and submit their portfolios via the site.

Several interactive art games and activities.

ARTSEDGE is the Kennedy Center's free digital learning platform for arts education. Our resources-- including lesson plans, guides, audio stories, video clips, and interactives-- support K-12 teaching and learning in the arts in the classroom, at home, and beyond.

IXL allows students to use drill and practice software for a specified amount of time for free. Students can join for unlimited access for a fee. Language Arts and Math are focused on and drill and practice activities are broken up by standards.

HS Language Arts teacher uses Prezi to tell about using Edmodo in the classroom.

Here are two examples of using Voicethread to create digital and live Art anthologies.  These examples are from 7th and eighth grade.

The author of this article compiles lesson ideas that incorporate technology into literature and language arts curriculum. Some ideas include video dialogues, using pictures to tell stories, voicethread narration, creating comics, and using video-games.

A useful resource for technology integration in language arts. The webpage links to various technology resources that focus on literature, writing, storytelling, and reading.

An amazing virtual interactive art history timeline. 

National Gallery of Art's interactive art activities to explore art concepts, skills, and themes

A collection of fantastic Art-focused websites, sponsored by the ASSOCIATION FOR LIBRARY SERVICE TO CHILDREN a division of the American Library Association