This is a strange analogy. But just as the other secondary SBISD art teachers teach elements and principles of art using completely separate artwork projects from each other with very little collaboration, so our recent Memorial Day trip to Lake Whitney could have been greatly enhanced if we had been better informed through interactions about family entertainment located between Houston & Dallas.
I would like to use some sort of communication to share and learn from the SBISD art community about successful art lessons. Our monthly art meetings are very helpful in this way - but there's so much more I could learn from more interaction.
I think my art students could photograph their work and write about techniques, history along with the artwork - this would prepare them for IB sketchbook research and studio piece work.
I wrote comments on the blogs of: Patty Joyce, Cheryl Wegscheid, Anya Schmidt, Amy Houser & JoAnne Lee.
I think we already see evidence how learning and sharing will happen in your Personal Learning Network. Your idea about art teachers having an online sharing resource can be accomplished by several of the tools you will be reviewing. I bet you will come up with an idea to share with your group.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read further in your blog yet to see if you have come up with ideas for your blogging with your art class. My idea for using a blog in the art classroom is to make student find artistic expression within their local surroundings. For example: give students the topic (style your studying, etc), make them find an example of it, but further tell them where they have to find an example of it such as in the grocery store, front of a house, etc, they take a photo, and explain. What do you think about this?
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