Elementary Art

Art Videos

Crafts Council of Irelan

Explore Bearden's unique fusion of artistic traditions through archival footage of the artist at work, commentaries on his relationship to jazz musicians Wynton and Branford Marsalis, and discussion of his monumental mural-collage commission at Berkeley's city hall.

Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces.""

Create your own buttons

Resources & app tutorials for creating digital stories in the classroom with iPads

Camille Dempsey's presentation: Art in the digital garden: Cultivating best practices in technology integration and art (Oct. 2010).

"Examines themes connecting works of art created around the world in different eras.  The thirteen-part series explores diverse cultural perspectives on shared human experiences."

Adobe provides free lesson plans for using Photoshop with kids- lessons, assessment tips and finished examples are provided for each lesson.

"By providing a directory of children's art collections from around the world, art educators, museum and gallery directors, researchers, parents, and children, are able to learn from, and contribute to, an international community of child art collectives. "

Guggenheim Biennial of Creative Video

Some really great stuff here.

"Ten years ago, Stanford professor Robert I. Sutton wrote a book on how to manage for maximum creativity called Weird Ideas That Work. After studying some of the most innovative people and companies, Sutton concluded that what is right for routine work is consistently wrong for creative work. The best way to manage for creativity, he discovered, is to simply take every tried-and-true management trope and do the opposite. .... "

"Students create a claymation movie about the life of a famous artist that answers the question "What If…?" After researching their assigned artist, groups decide on an alternate path for an artist and showcase that through the claymation movie. This lesson is strong in creativity and innovation. "

Regarded as a founding member of the Chicano Art and Los Angeles mural movements of the 1970's.

Technology & App blog, educational uses included.

Article on Ellis Gallagher - New York-based Shadow Chalk Artist.

A Wiki site for Arts Education information and resources - Living Sky School Division, Canada.

The sandwich technique of criticism.

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.