Anni Lyzenga's List: Art education

• • The Carrot Revolution  Also mentioned in the SchoolArts article and a source of art inspiration.  
  • The Art Teacher’s Guide to the  Internet On the cutting edge of art education academia.
• • NAEA Monthly Mentor A guest art  educator each month, be sure to look through the archives.
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  Art Inspiring Blogs:

   
   
  • Esty - that place where artists  sell their stuff has a “Handmade Blog” too.  Great inspiration for art  projects.  
  • Vi.sualize.us Inspiration in Imagery.  
  • Hongkiat Great for digital media and  Photoshop users.  
  • Museum 2.0 The name says it  all.  
  • WebUrbanist Great alternative art and  architecture.

• Center One: Pin the Feature on the Face (Kinesthetic)
  In  this center students take turns blindfolding themselves and pinning a feature of  the face onto a blank head. This will result in a portrait with randomly placed  features much like the look of Pablo Picasso’s cubistic portraits.

  • Really cool idea! See the video above for this

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• Odd Art Jobs

  • add to classroom
• Sort scrap boxes
• Count out paper I need for certain grade level projects
• Sort marker bins and throw out dry markers
• Sharpen pencils

  • Create bucket for sharp and dull pencils
• Empty the drying rack

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• There are several ways to create a Wordle
• You could take a student’s existing written work, a new short essay or have  students write a list of self-describing words and then copy and paste them into  Wordle

• collect twenty essays about the future of the arts and arts education, each  written by an emerging leader under the age of forty

• Boring Boy (25 seconds/5 seconds for localization)
  

  • could use for the first week of school when talking about why students need to learn about art.
• Dancing Girl (30 seconds)
  

• The Arts:

   
   
  • Improve kids’ overall academic performance.  
  • Show that kids actively engaged in arts education are likely to have higher  test scores than those with little to no involvement.  
  • Develop skills needed by the 21st century workforce: critical thinking,  creative problem solving, effective communication, teamwork and more.  
  • Teach kids to be more tolerant and open.  
  • Allow kids to express themselves creatively and bolster their  self-confidence.  
  • Keep students engaged in school and less likely to drop out.