First stop, google!
http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-make-a-wiki
is an excellent source with all the links you'll need to figure it out.
I first watched the video from that fabulous guy at commoncraft to explain it to me in dumbanese...very helpful. Then I followed the signs to the free software...
Some hard choices came into play when choosing which wiki to go with...wetpaint or wikispaces? Or Wikia--that one looks so cool too! I took the easy way out and close my eyes and clicked a tab, and ended up with wetpaint. It looks more like it's aimed for pop-culture but is a fun interface to use.
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wow that was easy--see, you didn't even know I was gone and in that space between a paragraph I made a wiki! check it out at http://greeningthecolorwheel.wetpaint.com/
Now to fill 'er up! Add any green tips--or those for any of the other colors an art teacher uses--as well as lesson plans, ideas and inspiration! See you there!
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Ideas for using Pixton in a paperless classroom...
I am a big fan of portfolios, or any other techniques that helps students see how they are learning and developing over a long period of time.
Pixton can be a fun tool to illustrate this as part of a students online portfolio, facebook page, igoogle home, student blog, or whichever paperlesshome base students choose to catalog their learning.
Once a school has an account at
http://pixton.com/schools/overview
students could make a comic a week (or over whatever time period works for you) that shows what they learned that week--not necessarily a list of facts, but ideally a comic about what the student learned about them self as a learner.
When students are metacognitive about their learning and articulate that, be it in writing, comic, or on a chart or graph (making goals and timing them, or any method of quantification you could imagine) they establish problem solving strategies that can help make their thinking more flexible.
Pixton can be a fun tool to illustrate this as part of a students online portfolio, facebook page, igoogle home, student blog, or whichever paperlesshome base students choose to catalog their learning.
Once a school has an account at
http://pixton.com/schools/overview
students could make a comic a week (or over whatever time period works for you) that shows what they learned that week--not necessarily a list of facts, but ideally a comic about what the student learned about them self as a learner.
When students are metacognitive about their learning and articulate that, be it in writing, comic, or on a chart or graph (making goals and timing them, or any method of quantification you could imagine) they establish problem solving strategies that can help make their thinking more flexible.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Friday, April 16, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
Sunday, April 11, 2010
I love quotes.
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.
Adolf Hitler (frustrated art school reject)
Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?
Ray Kroc
Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
H. P. Lovecraft
Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.
Thomas Sowell
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
Noam Chomsky
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
Martin Luther
Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
Barbara Jordan
Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.
Russell Page
Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.
Federico Garcia Lorca
Interesting to see the different connotations and uses green has seen throughout different points in history and from different points of view.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.
Adolf Hitler (frustrated art school reject)
Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?
Ray Kroc
Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
H. P. Lovecraft
Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.
Thomas Sowell
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
Noam Chomsky
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
Martin Luther
Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
Barbara Jordan
Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.
Russell Page
Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.
Federico Garcia Lorca
Interesting to see the different connotations and uses green has seen throughout different points in history and from different points of view.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
A few fun links for art teachers,,,
10 Best Image Sources For Creative Projects | The Teaching Palette
YouTube - A Typical Day of the Development of a Concept
Sketchbook Resource Main Page
www.theartmachineonline.org
Another Way to Visit the Louvre.... | Louvre Museum
The Teaching Palette | Perfecting the Art of Education
and project-based learning...
The Project Approach
No Impact Project » For Educators
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Greening the Color Wheel
Although each of the colors in the color wheel has its own magic, they all look good in green--the green of environmental activism that is. There's been so much green everywhere lately you'd think St. Patrick's day never ended. Some, like Thomas Friedman in his influential book Hot, Flat and Crowded, call green the new red, white and blue.
So how can art get in on this global green? How does art prove a mechanism for social change and patriotic ideas? And what is green--the purely formal, chorophantastic secondary color in all its nuances--all about?
This blog thinks technology is one answer, balanced with hands on experiences in service and projects based learning. Greening the Color Wheel is here as a resource for art teachers, but can also be useful for anyone curious about art, nature, and our rapidly shrinking global community.
So how can art get in on this global green? How does art prove a mechanism for social change and patriotic ideas? And what is green--the purely formal, chorophantastic secondary color in all its nuances--all about?
This blog thinks technology is one answer, balanced with hands on experiences in service and projects based learning. Greening the Color Wheel is here as a resource for art teachers, but can also be useful for anyone curious about art, nature, and our rapidly shrinking global community.
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