Flipboard for Teaching
This is one of the key apps that helps me deliver information to my students. In seconds you can create an beautiful, glossy magazine of images, articles, websites, photos, documents, resources, etc....
View ArticleWhy do we love beautiful things?
“We think of great design as art, not science, a mysterious gift from the gods, not something that results just from diligent and informed study. But if every designer understood more about the...
View ArticleIs google bringing us too close to art?
In this fascinating post from the Daily Dot, James Elkins, Professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, explains how the power of the...
View ArticleArt Apps for Museums in Arts Education – Top 10 Apps & TED
One of the benefits of living in an increasingly connected world is the unprecedented access to resources and information we now enjoy. In the arts, we can make use of the incredible websites and apps...
View ArticleArt memes. Funny (& actually useful) if you are an art teacher…
Memes are a great way of communicating an idea with some strong words and a visual. They are really trending at the moment and ‘meme-maker’ apps are simple and easy to use if you would like to create...
View ArticleWhat is art? A collection of resources
“What’s the impulse behind art? It’s saying in whatever language is the language of your work, “If I could move you as much as it moved me … if I can move anyone a tenth as much as that moved me, if I...
View ArticleArtists Dig Deeper
When Hyperallergic shared this great poster from Lauren Purje I had to pass it on… If you liked this, check out this Life Drawing pun…
View ArticleUsing collage apps in Visual Art
Sometimes the best apps are not on the App Store in the education section. Check out collage apps! These little ‘photo organisers’ that function like digital album pages, are usually found on...
View ArticleWords to use for talking about Art
…and ALL teachers teach literacy! Literacy is about understanding the meaning of human codes. Meaning can be conveyed through words, signs or symbols. In the arts, these codes can be written, aural or...
View ArticleDon’t Hate the Selfie!
What Can We Learn From Selfies? ” A selfie is a certain type of self-portrait photography shot with a digital camera or smartphone. Selfies are typically of-the-moment images, require little to no...
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