Tool #4

https://docs0.google.com/document/edit?id=12twDEwXIkLOiD79BbWssP65SV4pYkzVS9VehNGbG3Zc&hl=en#

is the location my online doc. This is a grant proposal that Terry Hodges (my fellow art teacher at WAIS) and I hope to receive. We needed to collaborate on the wording and this would have been a good way to accomplish the goal. On another subject, art teachers often send photographs of student donated work and offer it for auction. Funds provide more supplies or field trips. I wonder if sending the photos as a doc would allow for everyone who participates in the auction to see the current bid and then outbid someone?

On Google reader, I subscribed to http://malloryagerton.wordpress.com/ This is a blog I have followed for 12 months already, but I forget to check on it. The author writes every few weeks, so it will be nice to be notified when there's a new entry. The writings follow the steps in painting a huge canvas which will hang in the medical center. I have shown this blog to my students so that they can see the steps involved in creating a large impression-making work of art. The author also adds her thoughts and feelings along with explaining the artistic steps involved in creating the artwork.

http://powertolearn.typepad.com/digital_smarts_blog/2010/02/kaleidocycle-your-photos.html I have recently become interested in M. C. Escher-inspired kaleidocycles. I love to integrate math & art - and the -cycles are filled with geometric shapes and corrolations. I have particularly been trying to find a hexagon 'flat' shape which is really a mobius strip - it can be flipped to form 6 patterns and demonstrates radial symmetry beautifully. I constructed one in a workshop, but lost my notes and want to recreate it and then teach my art club/class students. Does anyone know about this kind of Escher form? It is made with 9 (?) equilateral triangles placed up, down, up, down, etc. next to each other - forming a long narrow trapezoid. It is folded and overlapped and taped as certain way. I have even bought some books off amazon on kaleidocycles to find it - but nothing yet.

http://www.terrypratchettbooks.org/myblog/barefoot-blog.html
My college son has read the "Discworld" series by author Terry Pratchett several times. There seem to be 15+ books in the series alone. I have labored through 3 of the books so far - they are delightful - but I find that I cannot skip words and the characters are extensive. I'm not sure who would enjoy these books - I've only had one student who has read one of the books yet. Every third sentence is full of clever humor. As a result, my husband and I have "Monstrous Regiment" on audio IPOD for the car - we keep listening over & over because we can't manipulate the IPOD to get to the right chapter - however, we keep hearing parts we swore we haven't heard before. Right now, Terry Pratchett's discworld books are a means to communication with our son ... so on we go eating 'scubble'. If you know what scubble is - you're probably one of .000025% of the population and may not want to admit it.

http://www.bigartblog.com/
Will keep me up with current art showings around the US. However, what I would really like is a blog alert whenever there is a new exhibit at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. I am deplorable at keeping up with what is showing there and at the Menil - and consequently, miss out. Only Wayne Webb kept me up with current exhibits. Wayne & Suzanne regularly tour the museum. Of course, if I was a current up-to-date member, this information would come to me also! I loved visiting the Redbud Gallery on 11th street with my art club this year - they were so hospitable and had beautiful works of art - that change every month. Alas, no blog for them either. I realize now that it is very time-consuming to keep a blog up - so you either have to have a reason - like PDLC credit ... or an intense passion to communicate.

http://ruidoso-blog.com/community/ruidoso-events-calender-racing-shows-art-outdoors/ I did not subscribe to this - we visit Ruidoso NM often - and I always want to know when the art exhibit will occur. However, this blog was last updated in 2009! Then I looked up another - it was up-to-date, but was focusing on a video game the author had just discovered! There does not appear to exist an events blog on Ruidoso that is up-to-date.