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The mission of Art Education 2.0 is to support a growing global community of art educators exploring uses of new and emerging technology in the classroom by promoting: * professional discourse * best art teaching practices * innovative uses of technology in the art classroom and studio * the production and study of visual culture * collaboration and joint creative work * curricular projects and student art exchanges * the sharing of information, ideas and experiences * other activities deemed important by its members.

Great article on Postmodern Art. It explains how many people feel about the current state of art, art theory, design, and technology.

The Take 5 series integrates art into almost any academic subject. Very intuitive and easy to use, on all sides of the art and education spectrum

An argument for teaching art.

"In one elementary school lesson, Ponton shows students a professional artist's drawing and then uses DrawPlus to break the image down into its basic shapes. Students are told to put those shapes back together, and in the process, they begin learning how basic shapes can be used to create more complicated images."

Great tool to gather some information for art lessons. You can even add your own and save it to the database.

Reports and articles on how art is changing education. This is research issued by the Department of Education to find out how art influences students' ability to learn.

This is for the Social Studies and Art fans in the crowd. Very cool site with podcasts, video, etc.

podcast: feed://smarthistory.org/podcast-xml-for-all-museums "This site is being developed ... as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the static Western art history textbook. We are looking for contributors-especially for canonical non-Western material and other survey topics we have not yet covered."

Harold Olejarz has a number of pertinent articles on integrating technology into the classroom, particularly for art education. This one teaches how to create a Web-based portfolio of student work.

This Smartboard activity is a fun way to practice identifying homonyms and working on reading comprehension. It is meant for grades 4-6.

More art webquests

A resource to find art e-zines, magazines, email blasts, etc. These are for the digital artist, fine artist, and educator. Great lists though.

podcasts, webseminars, blogs, etc. to keep the you up to date in the art & technology world

Language Arts tools for parents, students, and teachers

This lesson plan is VERY art focused. It comes from Arts Connected

Art and wiki. This is me figuring out how to use a wiki.

Adverb lesson for grades 4-6

A collection of research articles put together by the SMARTer Kids Foundation about the success of using the SMARTboard in classrooms. Contains articles from many different subject areas.

Art Webquest for grades 6-9.