Archive for the 'The Arts' Category
Art and Technology is a blog post on the Art Class with LMJ blog that I heard about through Deyana Matt. The post offers great ideas for using technology in the art class, but many of these ideas — Digital Photography, Virtual Classrooms, Graphic Design, Digital Portfolios, Pinterest — also apply to the regular classroom. […]
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Printing Press offers interactive, online templates for creating newspapers, flyers and brochures. Printing Press is part of the many wonderful offerings available on the ReadWriteThink website. It’s user-friendly interface allows students to choose from several templates, then add images and text. Another nice thing about this site is that it allows students to save their […]
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Teaching Kids News is a site created by a mom and her son’s teacher to help elementary aged students access and understand the news. The articles/stories on the site, written in kid-friendly language, are designed for students in grades 2-8. Each day a new article is added that relates to some news story of the […]
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Text 2 Mind Map is an easy-to-use tool for converting an outline into a mind map. Students type in their outlines right on the site. After the outline has been created, they click on the “Draw Mind Map” button, and the outline is presented on the screen in mind map format. The map can then […]
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Eric Whitacre: A virtual choir 2,000 voices strong is one of my favorite TED videos. In this video, composer and conductor Eric Whitacre shows how he used the Internet to create a virtual choir of over 2,000 singers from around the world to produce a recording of one of his compositions. This video shows the […]
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Phil Hansen: The art of the imperfect is a TED video recommended to me by Deyana Matt. In this video, artist Phil Hansen talks about how to foster creativity and work around limitations. This short video has a powerful message about getting around the ‘brick walls’ that often get in the way of our aspirations. […]
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Share My Lesson is a site created by the AFT and the TES (a worldwide network of teachers). The site allows you to use its over 200,000 lesson plans and other teaching resources at no cost (free registration is required to download lessons). It also allows you to upload lessons that you have created and […]
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Differentiation Meets Digital Technology is a blog post on the Literacy Beat blog that I just recently started to follow. Literacy Beat is a blog written by five teachers and researchers in the field of digital literacy. What I like about this particular post is how it uses the UBD model to plan for differentiation […]
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108 Ways to Use Word Clouds in the Classroom is a blog post by the award-winning blogger Michael Gorman. As the title suggests, the post offers more than 100 ways to use work clouds in the classroom. What I like about this particular post is that the ideas are organized by subject area.
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Drawzit is an online drawing website that allows the user to create a drawing using a variety of tools, and either share it with others through a URL or download and save it as a .jpg file. It is fairly easy to use and does not require a login, so it can be used by […]
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