Blogs

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The Art Teacher’s Guide To The Internet is a blog to extend upon the content of a book by Craig Roland. It has great ideas, tools and resources for teaching art and design in a post-digital age. Also included in this blog is a list of the top ten tools art educators should know and explanations of what each one is about or does.

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==== Art-Teacher-Blog was created so that she could blog about her art class, where she talks about everyday activities in her class, lessons being taught, and students. It also displays student’s art work, including a class project which they created a 3D fish using tissue paper and paper plates which I found to be innovative way to use paper plates. ====

Art With Mr. E is a blog webpage that includes several links of online art games and activities. It is site welcoming all teachers of art to come and blog. Some of the blogs are about lesson plans, Elementary Art, Photography, Landscapes, Drawings with designs, etc. that shares different experiences art teachers have witnessed and that others can learn from.

This webpage blogs about different lesson plans and activities that serve as a great resource to teach art. Here art teachers share examples of students work and how they went about teaching a certain art lesson. It also talks about painting with tongue depressors and other stuff, exploring color, line drawings and more. The Teaching Palette is a wonderful blog/webpage for Art teachers founded by two teachers from Chicago, Hillary Andrlik & Theresa McGee who teach elementary art. Their goal in making this site was to provide a collaborative and resourceful forum where art specialists of all levels can explore professional topics that impact our subject area- from classroom management to tool & techniques to integrating music.

= = ArTechTivity = = This is the classroom blog for Ms. Cynthia Gaub, who teaches art and technology at North Middle School in the Everett School District. The posts are mainly for my students to assist them with class assignments. There are often links to other blogs and websites that were found to be useful and appropriate for students in grades 6-8 []

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This blog is about art and kids. Especially the kids in the 4th grade room at a public elementary school in Long Beach CA in a school district with 50 elementary schools serving approx. 50,000 students which doesn’t have a single paid art specialist or a dedicated art room in any of it’s 50 schools. =====

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 This blog contains artwork by JoAnne, who is an artist, designer, and tecaher. She also includes art videos and activities that took place in her painting classes. One example is a writing on Palette Knife Rocks in Watercolor, which shows a picture of a students artwork and explains the process in creating such work.

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 This is an exciting blog by a 3rd year art teacher who shares photos of elementary art projects created by students in her classroom. She also provides lessons or written explanations that are helpful and inspiring! This site has easy to understand instructions that serve as a great tool for teachers and even moms.

 HotChalk is a learning environment for K-12 tecahers, students and parents that includes management system (LMS), a rich library of teacher-contributed lesson plans, premium digital content, and professional development for teachers in a Wed-based environment. Available through any Internet browser, the HotChalk Learning Environment is an easy to use system and brings teachers, students and parents together to improve education. <span style="color: black; font-family: Andalus; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msoasciithemefont: minor-latin; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidilanguage: AR-SA; msobidithemefont: minor-bidi; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msofareastlanguage: EN-US; msofareastthemefont: minor-latin; msohansithemefont: minor-latin;">  This is an excellent weblog that provides access to incredible art lessons at the Elementary level. This blog helps to spark ideas for teachers to use for future lesson plans that they can share with their students.

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