Picassohead Digital Art
Teaching media arts and exposing elementary students to digital design does not have to be challenging in a classroom with limited technology. I have one computer and one iPad in my elementary artroom ...
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Modeling an Engaging Art Lesson
Each semester, our pre-service art educators are introduced to the development of meaningful art lessons. These future teachers are encouraged to find inspiration for their lessons from various source ...
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Don't Judge a Box by Its Cover
For this lesson, students designed the outside of a box to represent how they are perceived by others, and the inside to represent how they know themselves to be. They were encouraged to work symbolic ...
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Early Childhood Color Symmetry
One of the first early childhood lessons I ever taught as an elementary teacher became one I always taught. It combines imagination with simple color theory and bilateral or line symmetry. It also has ...
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What's Your Art Teacher Super Power?
Compared to most classroom teachers, I do think art teachers wield more power in what they teach and how they interact with their students. For the most part, we are able to create, plan, and present ...
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Celebrating PRIDE Month
The month of June was chosen for LGBT Pride Month to commemorate the Stonewall riots, which occurred at the end of June 1969. The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous demonstrations by members ...
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SchoolArtsRoom is Moving!
New Season, new website, and new blog look! It’s full Spring here in Santa Fe and more than just the trees and flowers are changing. SchoolArts Room is Moving! ...
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Recollective Echo
This year’s Hands-On Curatorial Program exhibition, Recollective Echo, opens to the public May 10, 5-7pm. ...
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Netiquette Essentials for Minding Your Manners
Scott Steinberg's Netiquette Essentials: New Rules for Minding Your Manners in a Digital World gives good guidelines for conducting ourselves online: ...
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