I had surgery yesterday and have the rest of the week off! So thought I
would do something I have meaning to do for ages!!! Send you some websites I
have found and have been enjoying.
The first is AccessArt, a UK site which is series of online workshops which
are brilliant. I met the webmaster last Easter. I'm English and was home
visiting family, and contacted them regarding some research I was doing at
the time. The workshops are a collaborative effort between art teachers,
classroom teachers, museum teachers and the web site, in Cambridge. Students
use the web site, and a team of artists visit the school, the art teacher
and classroom teacher do collaborative work together. It was amazing. There
is a great photography section on how to set up pinhole photography and a
darkroom etc, sculpture workshops etc, and more. I think you will find it
quite different. Let me know what you think?!
http://accessart.org.uk/index.html
Also, a great papermaking site- http://www.tappi.org/paperu/welcome.htm. This
is a corporate web site, but very nicely done with science and art and fun
and games links,as well as environmental concerns and educational materials.
Really swizz!
Another great site that many of you may already know but I have just
discovered is the Glencoe textbook site! Great for Middle/High School.
There is a great teacher site, advovacy site, and links page, and my
favorite, Studio Cyberspace. I just checked it, and for some reason the
studio cyberspace page is down. I contacted the site and let them know, and
asked if it was temporarily down or gone forever- God forbid. It has a
series of internet lessons, artists passports, art colleges, archaeology,
museums, a ton of other places for kids to visits, with...drum roll
please.......printable worksheets with questions to guide students around the
sites. They are great. I love the art colleges one for HS kids. It is a
great homework, extra credit or computer lab lesson.....you can send a
student to the computer and they actually have a guided set of questions, so
YOU KNOW they have to have found their way around the site to answer the
questions. Some may be suitable for 5th graders. I am praying it gets back
online. This is an adoption year in NC and I recently got a lovely box of
books and the set of softcover workbooks that come with ArtTalk and Art in
Focus, and the Internet Lessons come with these, so if you can't get it
online you can always order it from them.
I have a new web site that I have just finished which I did in HTML- I took
it as an elective for my MAEd, can you believe?! It was the only choice at
the time. Now I am glad I did it. Anyway, there are a lot of links in the
art history sections, (The Lascaux cave site blows me away- if you haven't
see the "flash light opening" of the web site you need to see it! In the
Prehistoric Art section) and none of the Artist Links are up yet. The Art
and Technology page has some lengthy links, especially the first link, it
links to a HUGE page of links.
This was my first attempt at HTML so it pales in comparison to some of your
very professional looking pages.....Judy, I feel quite humbled after visiting
your site. It is amazing. http://www.personal.ecu.edu/smg0306
That's about my lot for today. Time for a Percocet and a lie down. (I had
kidney stone blasting surgery yesterday, compliments of the gallons of Diet
Pepsi I have consumed over the years. Now I am a recovering soda addict,
drinking......water. LOTS OF IT!!)
