Maintaining a quality art program for middle-school students while learning about art in a blended model requires inventiveness, patience, adaptability, and imagination. Art teacher Lauren Conti’s video “Woven Optical Illusion in Google Drawings” (see Resource) serves as the inspiration for this lesson. Because the Google Drawings app is included with the Chromebook and can be used in Google Classroom, this art teacher and her students, no matter where or when, have the materials and resources they need to be their best artistic selves.
Art teachers share new and exciting art-making experiences in and outside the art room. Young students collaborate to paint a hanging cardboard butterfly installation, elementary students use everyday objects to create illuminating bookshelf dioramas, middle-school students use 3D-scanning technology to print lifelike portraits, high-school students address contemporary issues while creating in an outdoor classroom, and more.
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