Thing 6

Ok ya'll have given me just one more reason to want a MAC-I tried to keep and hide my green mac that I used to have in my classroom-I loved it's old school lines! But the ipad is just the coolest thing I have seen. My son has one and I spent time playing with it this week- looking at the aps. It is so easy to use, fast, and such a sharp image. I went to the online apple store and looked under aps for art and low and behold they have the Louvre collection ap and the National Gallery ap-on my son's ipad it was an awesome experience-you can type in a word like hope and it would bring up multi images of paintings that expressed hope-I was looking under Da Vinci so hope gave me 20 Madonna faces painted by him.
I did a photostory during CEDFA on a imac which brought up all kinds of tools that I do not have on my dell-one of the other art teachers there had an iphone so he took a group picture -then using his phone he changed all the colors and made all of us look very surreal. I have been allowing my students to use their camera phones for their homework assignments and I have been blow away by the quality of pictures that they have taken and altered right on their phones. Then they just email them to me and I grade it from my computer. One girl took such beautiful pictures that I printed them out on quality computer photo paper and she entered them in Jr. Vase. Both images earned her a gold medal. I see apple as leading the way to how to engage children in the classroom. I really wish we had more mac in SBISD. Guess I will go to the store and get an ipad-I really think I deserve and need one especially for visual arts.