Elementary Art

Interactive whiteboard download for mac & windows

Create your own interactive white board using a Wii Remote. Aproximate cost: $50.

This actually works! I don't have a commercial interactive whiteboard, but I am able to get an infrared light pen and a Wii remote set up to use as a cheap substitute. I bought my infrared pen from this source: http://www.wiiteachers.com/ I prop my Wii remote up with a piece of cardboard. Tip: if you're not a tech wiz yourself, borrow a few minutes from your tech aide to help you figure out the software download and Wii calibration.

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.

Being an "agent of civilization" is one of the many roles ascribed to teachers. If we are to have any expectations of producing a well-educated, well-prepared generation of deep-thinking, resourceful leaders, then it is essential to give students an opportunity to review, respond to, and ultimately revere the power of the human imagination-past and present. There may be no better way to promote this than to study, understand, and exult in masterpieces.

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

Yoko Ono wants a smiling face snap of every single human being in the world. Including yours! http://www.smilingfacefilm.com

A Manifesto for the Planet, A Ribbon of Images to Surround the World, Created by Individuals in 43 Countries - so far.

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

Kendra Farrell's wiki for her digital imagery class.

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

Blog about installation art, performance, theater, cinema, painting, sculpture, digital art, and more.

Animations tutorials

7 minute audio file from NPR, short bio & sample images from Romare Bearden

Artist Romare Bearden: Interactive tour of "The Block." Includes biography, jazz music, etc.

31 Images of Romare Bearden's work

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.

Through this lesson plan students analyze a collage by African American Romare Bearden, investigate the impact of jazz on art, and create an original collage.

Knitted Superhero Costumes (also see Q&A in Smithsonian http://tinyurl.com/kml7be)

It's the age old question - what is art? If you live in Waikato (NZ), it's literally a load of old rubbish. (Check out the video. Great discussion starter for the classroom).

The sandwich technique of criticism.