I don't have any kid pix lessons, but I do have some thoughts on computers
and art that I would like to share with the group.
If your school is like mine, doing honest to goodness computer based art
(imaging, graphics, animation, digital video, web page design, etc) is darn
near impossible because of a lack of technology. For most of this year, the
most sophisticated piece of equipment my school has had is a scanner,
however, no computer in the building has enough memory to run it.
I use computers as an avenue for teaching Art History. I teach students how
to use Powerpoint and ask them to create slide shows (with text) on an artist
of their choosing. They gather biographical info from Scholastic Art back
issues or MS Encarta. Using the internet, they get art images from Mark
Harden's Artchive. They learn how to copy, paste, resize, and crop images.
They really seem to enjoy this more than the old two-page typed report or the
typical worksheet approach to art history.
