Yesterday I spend a long time checking out art sites. Interestingly enough, I had difficulties being able to get my art from the sites onto my blog. The difficulties were the usual suspects - no way to copy/paste from the originating site; site too complex (or used obscure vocab) to quickly and easily tranfer the image, or image transferred in an unusable manner - huge photo which couldnt be sized down. Today I will try again to get at least one of the sites illustrated in this blog.
Splashup seems and looks similar to Photoshop Elements, but I've visited it twice, trying various methods of working with only frustration, same problems as above. I expect, when it looks so similar that it act similar.
Blabberize looks fun. Here's how one teacher folds it into an assignment researching artists. That, too, was my first thought. Instead, I thought I might use it to introduce my 4 classroom tables, each named after a different artist . Here's Jackson Pollock. I wanted to have this embedded here but couldnt figure that out.
After reading Heidi's and Kate's blog, I'll have to give popplet a try.
Friday, August 3, 2012
Thursday, August 2, 2012
ART!
Time to play, and explore.
Shiddoni a cute site. seems for younger kids altho good drawing skills and tools would make this more enjoyable. You create a pet and it's surroundings using your own drawings. You gain points and increase drawing options by completing drawing tasks related to your pet. No way to copy and paste my pet, Katty, here. The only way to share is by joining the site and becoming friends with Katty.
The NGA site is one I've used before altho not for the still life activity. After trying it, it feels old and clunky- wooden movement with limited actions. Not very easy to use.
Shiddoni a cute site. seems for younger kids altho good drawing skills and tools would make this more enjoyable. You create a pet and it's surroundings using your own drawings. You gain points and increase drawing options by completing drawing tasks related to your pet. No way to copy and paste my pet, Katty, here. The only way to share is by joining the site and becoming friends with Katty.
Art!
Now to explore Art sites.
The NGA site I've seen before but I did check out the still life option. I created one, but found the technology old and clunky. There must be something better out there. This Arts Connected site is similar but with a bit more learning involved.
Squinchpix is really cool - it's a visual dictionary of historical sites and related art in Europe.
Cosketch is great for sharing visual ideas between 2 people online. The few stamps included are appropriate - for example, in 'sports' there's a field with markings - soccer?
the MOWA site, Museum of Web Art has a resources page with MORE ART sites to explore!
Shiddoni was fun but it was a game where you created characters, settings etc. and earned more options thru playing games with your created chracters. - good computer drawing skills a plus. Not something I'd use in the art classroom.
Splashup, a photo editing site ( maybe also a drawing site) had me stumped from the start 'cause i couldnt resize a photo I was gonna play with. So, ease of use is an issue for now.
Myoats is very a cool radial symmetry tool. Seems like you can also use it for regular drawing but I couldnt figure that out. I think the students would really like this site.
That's it for now. I'll check out more later.
Squinchpix is really cool - it's a visual dictionary of historical sites and related art in Europe.
Cosketch is great for sharing visual ideas between 2 people online. The few stamps included are appropriate - for example, in 'sports' there's a field with markings - soccer?
the MOWA site, Museum of Web Art has a resources page with MORE ART sites to explore!
Shiddoni was fun but it was a game where you created characters, settings etc. and earned more options thru playing games with your created chracters. - good computer drawing skills a plus. Not something I'd use in the art classroom.
Splashup, a photo editing site ( maybe also a drawing site) had me stumped from the start 'cause i couldnt resize a photo I was gonna play with. So, ease of use is an issue for now.
Myoats is very a cool radial symmetry tool. Seems like you can also use it for regular drawing but I couldnt figure that out. I think the students would really like this site.
That's it for now. I'll check out more later.
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Visual Stuff
Loved the Periodic Table of Visualization - ha ha, visual of visuals. I like this all together but as always, if you don't know the creator's vocabulary, you might spend a while searching for the type of visual device best utilized for your info. I get the impression that you have to know what you need when you do a web search for these tools.
Here are some of the Visualization tools:
Tagxedo of "Whole New Mind"
After reviewing the various word cloud tools, it seems like they primarily target lower Blooms thinking skills. That said, these might be perfect ways to review or initially apply new concepts in art to verbal visual. visual thesaurus - map of word synonyms
Graphic organizers always sound cool to me but somehow seem too complex to create - also idk how you'd best use the info documented in one.. The link below does suggest specific uses for certain types so this is a chart worth having.
graphic organizers - explore principles and elements of art in an artwork (in class) - a spider map?
here's another set of organizers - Pacific Learning (the url in the class wiki doesnt work) and Eduplace's set, Freeology's set which are cute but very specific, a set of organizers to select by their visual arrangment, and this for making your own printable versions.
OK. So the above organizers are means towards an end so you select accordingly. Mind Maps are records of ideas or relationships - and my bet is that Mind maps would be more meaningful in the art room. The link is to a scoop it site which has a great collection of ideas for using the mind maps. SO here's a mindmap of Daniel Pink's Whole New Mind , just to get an idea of how it could look. This is so awesome - Mindmap ART!!!! Here's a cool one on creative intelligence
Here are some of the Visualization tools:
Tagxedo of "Whole New Mind"- word clouds - description of artwork, descriptions of Ps and Es ( Tagul can use custom shapes!)
After reviewing the various word cloud tools, it seems like they primarily target lower Blooms thinking skills. That said, these might be perfect ways to review or initially apply new concepts in art to verbal visual. visual thesaurus - map of word synonyms
Graphic organizers always sound cool to me but somehow seem too complex to create - also idk how you'd best use the info documented in one.. The link below does suggest specific uses for certain types so this is a chart worth having.
OK. So the above organizers are means towards an end so you select accordingly. Mind Maps are records of ideas or relationships - and my bet is that Mind maps would be more meaningful in the art room. The link is to a scoop it site which has a great collection of ideas for using the mind maps. SO here's a mindmap of Daniel Pink's Whole New Mind , just to get an idea of how it could look. This is so awesome - Mindmap ART!!!! Here's a cool one on creative intelligence
http://www.mindmapinspiration.com/top-10/ by Alan and Emily Burton
and here's the hows and whys of using mnd mapping to visualize your to-do list . This is the working link to the additional Mindmappng sitesvmentioned on the wiki.
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