The first WCIDWT was posted entirely on a whim. The tech person at one of my schools gave me some interesting pieces of plastic, and the pack rat in me just couldn’t say no. Of course I had no idea what to do with them, so I snapped a quick picture with my BlackBerry and …
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What do I do with these? (Part 2)
What do I do with these? (Part 2), originally uploaded by TheArtGuy. They are scraps from old manilla folders. They measure 2.5" x 1". I have enough to supply a whole grade level with several or a single class with a lot more. (I could always cut more if needed.) I have a few ideas, …
Don’t mind the shavings.
I handed colored pencils to my 1st graders today. This was not too surprizing, as I did the same thing last week. What I have noticed, however, is that most of my teachers with younger students don’t let them sharpen their own pencils whenever they need to. I, however, do. I would much rather see …
Fluid: Less is more.
Here’s one more tool that I wish I could use at school but can’t because our computers are mostly all Windows: Fluid. Nowadays whenever my Art Club meets I send them to the art club website. In my infinite wisdom I used my academicaesthetic.com domain name to host the club’s blog, which as the year …
I’m not sayin’.
Dan Meyer seems to have come across a recent theme in his lessons: he’s not giving them the answers. I think that’s awesome. This is something you could very well expect to see in any art class that has a good teacher, since in art you will often find three or four (or more) opinions …
What’s in a name?
I have over 2,000 students (not including teachers who are also, technically, my students) spread out over three schools. This is a daunting task for many reasons, but only one of them irks be to the point that I’ll mention it at the start of this blog post: I can’t remember that many names. Oh, …
Prove Me Wrong
WARNING: I’m either on a high horse or a soapbox grandstanding with an overinflated ego right now. I’m not always this smug or confrontational (I hope…), but some recent events have led up to this post. Read at your own risk. I do the impossible. Daily. “He won’t do any work. Just let him sit …
What have we learned?
I’m spending most of this week organizing, labeling, and hanging pieces for the Youth Art Month Expo’s juried art show. It’s a lot of work, a lot of fun, and I get to be in the same room as other art teachers. Beware! While sorting the untold piles of art I couldn’t help but think …
What do I do with these?
What do I do with these?, originally uploaded by TheArtGuy. I have 4 of them. They’re hard plastic, @5″ across, and fit together. They are packing material for a printer paper that’s expensive enough to make me doubt I’ll get any more of them. But they look cool. Any project ideas? Sent from my Verizon …
Susan Benarcik’s Paper Spore
It’s no secret that I love, love, LOVE paper sculpture. Whether it’s one sheet or 2,000, printed out or made from scratch, to me there’s something aesthetically appealing about taking a planar surface and turning it into a three dimensional object. So when this showed up in my RSS reader thanks to MAKE Magazine …. …