Thing 23

This has been the very best summer class I have taken since 1968! I have learned so much, understand so much more than I did before, and have all kind of new ideas and projects to use with my students. I just know this will be a great school year!

As a visual arts teacher I now can create wonderful projects like my new picture of myself-how to do this can be found on our library resource page under curriculum (http://librestechsbisdcurr.pbworks.com/)

I can't wait to see what my students can do after going to this site.

Thank you our computer masters for giving me new respect for all those blogger out there.

Thing 22

I am already a member of a NING group, http://arted20.ning.com/ ,is a site I joined last year and I have really enjoyed the interacting much like what I saw on Educator Ning and Ning for Teachers.
I have not tried to put assignment up for students to view, do, then have me grade. I read several accounts on the Educator Ning where teachers were doing this. I thought this was an interesting way to give assignments but I wondered what a teacher would do with students who do not have a computer nor have access to one. We do interactive history notebooks at mt school and mt art students come in before and after school to use my student computer to complete these assignments. What would happen to them I wonder if I put my art assignments on a NING?I think it would go the way of the homework assignments that I post of my teacher wesite-they don't look at it.
It is a new world out there.

Thing 21

See below-I was able to finish this with help from Vaughn! Word to the wise-read your comments!!!!


I did not have the necessary downloads on my computer nor could I get photostory 3 to download.(my compter got almost throught then said it had found an error) I did a search on my computer-found what my compter said was photostory-saved it to my desktop using the directions as stated on Library2Play after I saw no where to upload to a blog. I looked through everything on the site I was using-still no upload to blog. Could send in email-upload to an mp3 player but no blog. I still have what I created from my own pictures plus text,plus music on my desktop-tried adding it through gadgets-none worked-tried the other site in library2play-those wouldn't work either. (I left it trying to upload through gadget photo for over 2 hours!) So I did the assignment-used a few photos I took in Italy but here they sit on my desktop. I loved being able to use pictures I had, add text, add music then have a finished product-BUT-I could not do anything with what I spent all afternoon on except save it to my desktop. The icon shows a photo of a cartoon family with an arrow pointing to the right surounded by a round rainbow. Does that mean anything to anyone??? If I were a kid-I would have given up-but I have spend another hour trying to figure out how to upload when there was no upload on my site nor was I able to go from Library2Play highlighted instruction to anything like what was on their video podcasts. The fact that it was stated that this was on my computer was not correct. Very frustrated but still enjoyed the creating part!
I did have the necessary things-I just didn't know where they were-I did a search and finally up popped Photostory 3 so if you have problems-contact me and I can help you. As the Beatles said "I get by with a little help from my friends!"
Thank you FRIENDS!

Thing 20 part two

Very intersting-I finally got my information to join Million Masterpiece.
Seems they are blocked from SBISD email-but when I finally got to play and paint, I discovered that this site is linked to Picasa, the site I just embedded into my blog.

Thing 20

This was a great assignment and lots of fun-this was my favorite Picasa like Picasso.
I can see a vaule in using Utube and teacher tube for getting information across to student in a way they know better than me!

Picasa

Thing 19

I enjoyed this exercise and learned a lot. I checked out the travel and food, and will go back to these sites. I will use with my students two sites, Million Masterpiece and Visual Complexity Color. These two were by far the best of what was under visual arts. What a crime that an add for a paint company (Color Blender) was ranked one and it had several suggestive advertisements on it page at the top-right where my 8th graders would have zoomed in. The last site Swivel should be under business not art. I would never have included this site nor the one ranked #1. Even though Benjamin Moore paint is the best.
Have been waiting to get an ok for Million Masterpiece so I can join in and paint-so far I have not gotten a password back-but the rest of the site is worth the look.