Yesterday, before we went to the hair salon, I told my daughter to “bring your crayons.” She looked at me with one raised eyebrow. She is ten, and doesn’t really “color” anymore. “It’s a surprise,” I said. While I was getting my hair colored, so was the two-dimensional young lady on one of the coloring … Read more
It could be my imagination, but it seemed to me that there was a sudden influx of food-related posts on the various blogs I read this week. I collected a few of them to share with you for my Fun Friday post today. I’m not sure how this relates to education, really. Sometimes I just … Read more
You know what Excel is, right? That wonderful Microsoft product for creating spreadsheets has been around quite awhile. It’s quite useful for calculating totals and making graphs – and for making beautiful artwork. For today’s Fun Friday post, I want to share with you the masterpieces of Tatsuo Horiuchi, a 73-year-old man who uses a … Read more
This week, I am focusing on providing resources to “Squash the Summer Slide” as ReadWriteThink puts it. Parents often ask me at this time of year for ideas to keep my students challenged over the summer. ArtsEdge is a great site for classroom ideas, but here are a few links to articles that might be … Read more
For Fun Friday this week, I thought I would share a few Escher posts I recently ran across. View this interactive panoramic Tribute to Escher in Out of this World.
I would be the first to raise my hand in a Superdome full of people if the following question was asked, “Who is the worst art teacher out there?” But if I can find a way to integrate art and technology, my lessons are sometimes fairly successful. This was one of those activities. To complete … Read more