Throughout the next year, we will be awarding funds to elementary and middle school teachers and their schools to help innovative art and music programs get off the ground.
Open Studio aims to make contemporary arts education accessible to teachers and classrooms across the nation and around the world. Mark Bradford explains his inspiration for the project in the video above.
Today, we are happy to announce the release of Diigo Educator Accounts, a suite of features that makes it incredibly easy for teachers to get their entire class of students or their peers started on collaborative research using Diigo's powerful web annotation and social bookmarking technology.
Visual literacy is a multi-faceted subject matter, and faculty wishing to include images in their curriculum can quickly find themselves overwhelmed by the prospect of addressing visual literacy. (looks like something that art teachers are uniquely qualified to teach).
Secure VoiceThread network for students and teachers to collaborate and share ideas with classrooms anywhere in the world.
Group conversations around images, documents, and videos
Messages can be text-based (computer keyboard, phone text), audio (computer mic, telephone call, upload), or video (computer webcam, upload)
Can be used to put "instruction" online.
Take advantage of the natural affinity children have for comics and use them as a powerful teaching tool in your classroom. The following tips, tools, and resources will get you started.