tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53194438426465686022012-01-28T11:55:50.680-06:00Teaching, learning, and being digital in the trenches with the real kids. I am one of the few people on earth who says "I love my job."Brandi Martinhttps://profiles.google.com/113948621057929761520noreply@blogger.comBlogger1561100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5319443842646568602.post-32676168910781023732012-01-20T10:03:00.000-06:002012-01-20T10:03:55.169-06:00

Three things you want your students to experience on tour: Contemporary Art Urban atmosphere. Artsy fartsy or scenic aspects of our neighborhood tours.  TIME TO TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS. Golden hour, the 2-3 hours before sunset, is the most photogenic time of day. If possible, that's when we want to be outside. I understand it's not always possible. I also understand sometimes it rains. Please know that

Brandi Martinhttps://profiles.google.com/113948621057929761520noreply@blogger.com01201 W New York St, Aurora, IL 60506, USA41.766687 -88.34327541.7652065 -88.3457425 41.7681675 -88.34080750000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5319443842646568602.post-34422653968163616032011-12-08T21:17:00.001-06:002011-12-08T21:17:31.423-06:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Visiting my mom. For the last time., originally uploaded by elephantsgerald. I abandoned my classroom the week before exams to be with my mom. She passed away today at noon. We will celebrate her amazing life led in the

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } art-is, originally uploaded by elephantsgerald. I was doing a project with photo club, (which is a pain to do- the school doesn't pay me) and I decide to document it. As i move the transparencies from table to table, I'm

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This song is my biggest Proust Cookie ever. EVERY time I hear this song I am on the seat of a bus rolling through some mountains in the South of France. It's a tour bus, and the other 42 art students are all asleep. Not me. I am JOYOUS, and I am bouncing along to THIS song so hard my seat mate moved. The sun is breaking, and I am listening to a mix tape from my boyfriend. It has endless liner

Brandi Martinhttps://profiles.google.com/113948621057929761520noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5319443842646568602.post-8948332938023609752011-09-14T10:56:00.001-05:002011-09-14T10:59:16.193-05:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Photo 1 takes their elements photos, originally uploaded by elephantsgerald. I briefly blogged about this yesterday, but today the New York Times serendipitously backed me up.Failure evokes the emotional response most

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } hand held- obvious camera shake, originally uploaded by elephantsgerald. Today the photo ones were eager to take photos. They've waited for weeks. They couldn't listen to 10 more words of instruction. That's fine.But don't

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Photo 1 working on their Elements of Art photos. a video by elephantsgerald on Flickr.Students have to create 7 totally different photos of one sculpture. A negative shape, emphasize 1 color, a line moving through the frame, fill the frame, make the sculpture look lost in the frame, make it look 3D, make it look flat.What they are discovering is that most of their photos are blurry. They are

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } It's a set-up, originally uploaded by jazmine20. Here's a gallery of my student work responding to the movie Marwencol.

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Note From Chelsea, originally uploaded by elephantsgerald. Students who go out of their way to make sure you know how they feel about learning with you are attuned to human nature. This is a teacher's favorite gift. Bar

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September 11 is my daughter's birthday. It is the tenth anniversary of her 6th birthday. She does not recall any media images, only that her mother could not stop crying. For a week. We had cake, but we put it off. On her actual day of birth in 1995, we both almost died in a horrible horrible hospital. That obstetrics ward was closed down two months after her birth. Two weeks before

Brandi Martinhttps://profiles.google.com/113948621057929761520noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5319443842646568602.post-11864922978159544192011-09-01T15:19:00.002-05:002011-09-01T15:33:01.647-05:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } This student was so moved by marwencol she wrote the artist a letter., originally uploaded by elephantsgerald. I have many successful former students. I take a lot of pride in their accomplishments. But taking the world by

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Marwencol Promo on Vimeo by Ethan Miller Productions, originally uploaded by elephantsgerald. I just showed this film to my AP photo students today. They thought it was 'weird' but inspiring. Personally, I thought it was

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } ARG, originally uploaded by elephantsgerald. I am not a super hokey type, I am a pragmatist. I know that as an art educator, or frankly a teacher of any stripe, so much of my job is selling; if I don't fire up the desire to

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, Carnegie Hall, originally uploaded by elephantsgerald. I think a crucial role here, and I'm prepared to take flack for this, is selling. When I teach, I make quite a bit of a big deal

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Groupies, originally uploaded by that one doood. Read this fabulous post in this great shot by a departing senior. Kids are great, and social networking lets them share their greatness.

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } DSC_0044, originally uploaded by elephantsgerald. Wednesday I took 37 High school photo 2 students to spend the day at an elementary school in our district. Job? To document the full range of life that occurs everyday in

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I deeply appreciate the good job Donorschoose does, and the genius of the design of the giving and receiving. I only bring up my dissatisfaction with your new vendor, because you seem to strive for real excellence, and AKJ Books is not anywhere close to mediocrity. Almost every single book costs more than amazon. Actually, all but one. Trying to browse or find art books, or any non fiction is

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Stills for Art Commercial, originally uploaded by elephantsgerald. Thank you so much for your generous contribution to expand our design library! These books will be used for years with our best and brightest kids, many of

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } frozen motion2, originally uploaded by skater_kidd94. Over break, my photo 2 students are photographing frozen and blurry motion. One of the advantages of having a socially networked classroom is that I can see some kids

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } DSCN0175.JPG, originally uploaded by elephantsgerald. Today a girl Keith knows gave him this candy bar. She said it was from her cousin. She also said he had to open it now. "Why?" "JUST OPEN IT." He did, and inside was

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Still from my upcoming advocacy video, originally uploaded by elephantsgerald. This is a still from a very simple video I'm working on to explain pensions. I will post here when finished. It should make very clear who pays

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"To begin with, many states are considering revamping worker pensions. Currently, most states have a defined benefit plan where workers get a legally protected payout regardless of what happens to the economy or how their contributions change. By contrast, most private sector 401(k) style plans let benefits fluctuate with the economy to help keep funds actuarially sound." You do know that

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } alison, originally uploaded by alison_richard. This is from a student new to me, but obviously not new to art. Kids need to learn the basics. But some only show up for school because of how in art class, you take what you

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As a teacher, I have a serious problem with incorrect information. First of all, Mr. Anonymous Programmer, you said you send your kids to public school, but I think you meant private. Secondly, I think you said private school tax when you meant 'tuition'. So maybe you aren't totally sober, or maybe your story is made up. That's ok. I'm going to proceed as though its true. I think its great if

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Dear Senator Cullen; Teachers currently pay 9.5 % of their income and their district pays .54% of the teachers income towards their own pensions. In comparison most people pay 6%of their own income towards social security and their employer pays 4% towards social security. Teachers do not pay into nor do they collect social security. If Illinois switched to SS next year it would cost an

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Truth in Advertising, originally uploaded by elephantsgerald. Dear twitter users boiling with anger about forced subsidization of unionized teachers:I've taught art for seventeen years. I've complained about certain things

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2011_art_ad_testOriginally uploaded by elephantsgeraldBased on an idea from the hope change video for the Obama campaign, is this too fast or slow?

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } ArtBrochure-2011, originally uploaded by elephantsgerald. first draft of our art recruiting brochure for JR high next year. What do you think?

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } purpose, originally uploaded by elephantsgerald.To 'B**' and Peter ***** - From your post- "The preferable solution is for teachers and all local government employees to voluntarily relinquish these egregious and unfair bonanzas

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[ ] Boys and girls at target [ ] Do round things roll? Yes. Yes they do. [ ] Fine arts jobs fine arts thoughts why are we alive? [ ] How Illinois funds schools in plain English [ ] Is gov Quinn courageous? [ ] Kids have terrible music tastes [ ] Kids waste taxpayer money [ ] Late & teaching responsibility [ ] Lazy questions don't really want answers. [ ] My graduate degree. [ ] My

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } purpose, originally uploaded by elephantsgerald. Kids are willing to discuss what they can do better if you do the same first.

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AP Studio Art – 2-D Design Portfolio Syllabus AP Studio Art Syllabus C Examination Grade Studio Art 2-D # % 5 1,494 11.1 4 2,861 21.3 3 4,665 34.8 2 3,674 27.4 1 716 5.3 Total Number of Students 13,410 Scored 3 or Higher 9,020 67.3 Mean Grade 3.06 ourse Overview

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Very nice little video that is instructive without being didactic. I plan on making more in this style myself.

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Hi, originally uploaded by elephantsgerald. Here I demo to my photo ones how I can take a cell phone photo and directly upload it to Flickr!

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Today we did my favorite classroom invention "musical chairs critique". First I ask students what the word 'critique' reminds them of. Then I talk about how at art, writing, architecture, music, and theater schools people actually REQUEST critiques from visiting artists, because the idea is to get better for your 12k a year, not just get warm fuzzies. Then i explain how it works. -Draw a

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } DSC_7080, originally uploaded by Barack Obama. I wanted to go to this rally but i just took 3 weeks off because my mother was so ill.

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Oiled Bird, originally uploaded by Greenpeace USA 2010. Stuff likeClorox WipesDuct TapeSafety goggles/glassesBug SprayAveeno face sunscreenSpray sunscreenZip Ties/Cable TiesHeavy Mil Lawn Trash BagsHand SawsBlue

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Cute Baby Possum, originally uploaded by BoggyBayou. The Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge is Helping animals. Their wish list: * Monetary Donations for medical supplies * Gift cards (visa, Lowes, Home Depot, local

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I find that the systems aren't mutually exclusive. I have kids who love to learn, and let the curriculum change their lives, but they *also* make sure that their grades are right. I have some kids who work only for the grades, and some who work just enough to pass. What I'm most proud of though, is that I convince many kids who don't care about grades or school at all to get involved because the

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } An awkward people watching moment at MOMA, originally uploaded by elephantsgerald.Kara Walker creates silhouettes in scenes that caricature how Americans romanticize our problematic slavery ridden past. This couple took turns

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My new best friend is one of the best things about Full Sail. I sent out this tweet on my way to meet her in Chicago: "After being friends for almost a year, I'm off to meet @amytwhite for the 1st time!" That might seem to be some sort of snide comment, but it is not. Full Sail made this possible! They created a program that gathers like minds together, gets them to interact, work and create

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } No:33 Lion Hearted Girl, originally uploaded by Kate Banazi. Great effect, and excellent use of a so so photo.

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"2.Creating small learning communities that will function in a homeroom capacity. This is actually related to my thesis. Students would be grouped with a teacher for a homeroom for the entire four years of high school. We would need a lot of planning time to create lesson plans for every teacher for the whole year. But it would really amount to two things: a small collaborative learning

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Jumping Brain - Prototype, originally uploaded by "lapolab".This blog post is my assignment for my grad class, but since I already read the book, Art of Possibility, I created an alternative assignment, writing questions for

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Holy Mother of not for profits, you know who just left a VM on my iPhone? The founder of Donorschoose.org Charles Best called me to say how great my post about grant writing was, and how all 52 employees were reading it, impressed, and they were honored to serve teachers like me. Whaaaa...? .flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left;

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Find a children's book. Cross out all the words that don't make the poem. Redact add and subtract to the imagery as well. Remember- viewers want to solve the mystery themselves. Don't be a spoiler. Don't spell it all out for them! You don't have to be 100% sure what it means yourself, as long as it creates an aura of mystery. See also: Joseph Cornell, Robert Rauschenburg.

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I have gotten all of my projects funded,including $13,000 for AP Art History textbooks (although my current one is taking forever) Here are my strategies; Its all in the writing. 1- WORK WITH WHAT THEY GOT look for any big grants that might apply to you, (gates foundation, HP etc) and see if you can overlap your goal with theirs. 2- FOR THE WIN! Sound like you and your students are doing great,

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I use creative commons to create my own works, i credit the original artists, I then [post the work, and the original artist comments upon it. This isn’t possible with google image search. It provides the perfect place to teach kids to respect authorship and copyright law while still getting AWESOME images for their own projects. If we want to teach students to not steal, giving them a

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First some quick definitions: "Metadata - data about data - allows systems to collocate related information, and helps users find relevant information." Normally professionals and content creators would be in charge of this, but as we all know, the information flies on the web faster than it can be categorized. User-created metadata, tentatively called "Folksonomies" is one of the few methods

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Mia Kyra said... Illinois, Georgia feels your pain. In Georgia educators have had to take three furlough days and we have recently learned that we will have to take an additional three days in the upcoming months. On top of that, the state has decided to increase class sizes to 35 for high school classes. (As an English teacher with five classes of 35 that equals 175 papers per assignment to

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#edchat is where I got the title of today's blog. #edchat 'meets' every Tuesday from Approximately 6:30-7:30 Central in Twitter. Anyone can attend. At the allotted time, set up a search column in Tweetdeck, or what have you, with the term #edchat as your only term. The tweets come thick and fast. You can't possibly read all of them, so you read and respond to what you can. Moderators have set up

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Really, this is all Heather's fault. I screen shared with her and showed her all the things I use Flickr for in the photo classroom, and how it grows classroom community. It took almost an hour, and God bless her, she listened patiently the whole time. I realized I had been collecting data and writing this paper in my mind for years. Learning Management System: Unmanaged from Brandi Martin on

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My Critique of Full Sail University's FSO online learning platform from Brandi Martin on Vimeo.This is part of an assignmen t for a graduate class I took at Full Sail University, Jan. 2010. Farmer, J. (2005, January 21). Un-managing learning management systems – a possible future for online learning incorporated subversion. Retrieved from incsub.org/blog/2005/

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All too often we, as humans, put limits on successes and the things that we can achieve. These limits can be debilitating in so many ways. This crash to our self-worth can cause us to give up, stifle passions, and loose interest in ourselves. I have a deep passion for the arts and find my busy life getting in the way with my one true passion. When this takes place my creativity feels stifled and

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It's important to have high standards- and we want so badly to communicate this to kids. I think the approach you are advocating here is not driving them on frenetically at the finish line, but getting them to internalize those high standards ahead of time. Flow. If they've already internalized what you've taught, at showtime it should just arrive to those relaxed and ready. The best thing

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I was thinking I'd love to attend TED next year, as the videos have meant a lot to me. Not only is it competitive, it costs $6,000. However, there are independent TED events, that TED assists with. http://www.ted.com/pages/view/id/343 Full Sail should totally host one on creativity, education, technology, and loosening up filter restrictions. In fact, district IT decision makers will be

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I got this email via flickr today from a former student (2000!) Subject:Hey You!! Soapy and The Baby sure have grown into beautiful young ladies. I just signed up to this site a few days ago and thought surely you'd be here, and indeed, here you are. How is the best Photo teacher ever? (I never, ever make my kids say "cheese." Thank you for that!)

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } front lighting, originally uploaded by elephantsgerald.I love pedagogy. I never thought I’d say that when I was an undergrad. I went into teaching for all the wrong reasons (for the money!) to support myself as an artist. It

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Public Relations If they won't come see me, somehow I have to take it to them. Art up in the halls even more, More art contests/shows, maybe I should even have the kids invite some admins to our room, or to a show. Or I could invite them down to 'model' for us during our lighting or drawing with light projects, then display the results in the hallway for other students to see their deans/

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } missyou@thriftstore, originally uploaded by elephantsgerald.I used my cell phone to take this photo of these thrift store mix tapes. "I MISS YOU! I LOVE YOU!" In all caps, as if the writer already knew how this story would end.

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If Caterpillar or Toyota lays off 50-400+ workers, it makes the airwaves. Every school in Illinois is owed money by the state, and as a result each has layed off hundreds of teachers during the last three years. As a whole, it amounts to thousands of educated workers statewide that were riffed. Where are the news stories about this huge impact on unemployment and educational quality? Where is the

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and they sent me a note on facebook. Here is the note to me, and my response: so i am gettin a lil frustrated at college right now... seems us future art teachers and outcasts and nomads... the education people just don't think, talk, teach in any way addressing how art differs in standards, assignments, grading, everything it seems and i am getting the feeling at least from the other art majors

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I. The Thesis An online private group within the photo sharing website Flickr can strengthen a regular art classroom’s sense of community, as well as redefine and broaden the classroom community to include multiple class sections, graduated alumni, and sister schools. II. Introduction Every class is unique! Every classroom is an island. But islands are known for isolation, which is not how

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I am tired of my blog being blocked from school. This blog will continue to be about my teaching and my education, but I now have a specific blog for my classroom support. http://brandimartin.edublogs.org/

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } I HAVE A SIGN-Westboro Baptist Protest of Twitter, originally uploaded by Sir EDW.Possible letterpress project of the future.

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I have redone my ancient website that I have not touched in years. I have made it house all or many of my media spread all over the web. Old Site New Site The new site shows: A favicon! (thanks) videos from Vimeo Slide show searches from my students' flicker pool based on tags (so they self update!) my blog rss feed on the teacher page. Took forever. embedded documents (reducing paper) I have

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I couldn't resistGive the kid your cellphone number!22 10 2009Photo 19Most people would consider giving students your cell phone number an easy open door for students to enter and mess with your private life. Why would any teacher in their right mind encourage phone calls from their students? Isn’t it a little idealist to think that teenagers won’t abuse your privacy?.......Brandi (19:35:26) :

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Show Me What You’ve Learned (Wk 4) October 18, 2009Posted by jlhawkinson in MAC Wk 4, Technology and Business.Tags: Education, MAC Wk 4, Technology and BusinesstrackbackWith the different blog entries I have read, the blog entries I have written, and the discussion board posts I have definitely learned a lot.The one thing I did this month that I have never done before is vodcasting for my classes

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The story of changing the dynamics of needing 50 cents for a flat tire by changing the way things are done reminded me of another story of mine. I am sure it doesn't take anyone very long to figure out I'm a flaming leftist liberal. But one conservative idea that I agree with is not just giving people things, but giving them another option to be self sufficient. I came up with a novel way for

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I can see how stickam and web pages like it would be useful. I was a little distressed about the delay between images and words- I realized that when given visual and verbal clues together, I much prefer the visual, and when I would joke and not see an instant response, it stressed me! Like any technology, the first or second use it is used for is porn. CREEPERS! abound on that site. I like how

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Pre-watching video Questions: What is your favorite media with which to express yourself? What new media would you learn, if you could learn any form of media? What is the most best lesson at school you can recall that used technology in an interesting way? During the Video Questions: Ron Smith says that students really enjoy which media the most? flash animation Which media does Ron Smith say

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Week 3: Reading chapter 1-3 Interestingly, chapter 3 of The Art of Possibility has my favorite ideas and a quote that made me roll my eyes and gag a little. The quote that I didn't like was, "This A is not an expectation to live up to, but a possibility to live into" (pg. 26). I hate quotes like this. I know that they are meant to be inspirational and all that, but, really--gag. That said, I

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The Art of Possibility : Transforming Professional and Personal Life is certainly a best selling book, and the reviews on the back cover got me pretty excited about reading it. I have mixed feelings about it as I pore through, however. The strengths of the book are the stories from the orchestra pit, and the authors' direct experiences. The weaknesses are how those strengths are watered down by

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Fairey admits he lied., originally uploaded by elephantsgerald.Well, it's true. Shepard Fairey is officially a dirtbag. This image based on a creative commons photo. Don't struggle with photoshop like Shepard did. There's an

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Creative Commons doesn't replace copyright- it works in addition to copyright to 'pre-approve' some re uses of one's creative work, while retaining ultimate ownership. What do all of the licenses have in common? Attribution. Giving original credit. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Here are the variables: Share Alike- Whatever you make with

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JOANN'S MAC BLOG THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2009 Thoughts? I would like to know your thoughts on allowing former students to be friends on Facebook. I have a number of former students- 6th grade and up, who keep requesting me as friends of FB. By the way, I am no longer teaching. I have a personal account and a Full Sail account. I don't want to hurt their feelings and they are sweet kids, but I

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I knew the subject of my blog the second I came across the sidebar mention of the pxl-2000 on page 153 0f Convergence Culture, Where Old and New Media Collide by Henry Jenkins. The pxl came out in the eighties, and really, it is the first digital camcorder. It was the first ccd ever commercially made. It recorded onto an AUDIO cassette that was run through at a much higher speed than for

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As I read these answers, I am sensing a theme in the schools. Is it lack of funds? Or is there something more? Lack of understanding? -Amy White Based on Amy's experience and my own, I think so much of the problem is administrative turnover. The lack of consistency from year to year, of ever changing platforms and policies based upon the temporary egomaniac in charge takes its toll. Each

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Aghh the THESIS( Week 1 post) I thought I would take the first post this month to focus a little bit on my thesis idea. My initial thesis statement was:Twenty-first Century learners are not engaged in their learning. The use of social networks within the classroom would greatly increase student involvement in their own learning. Now, as stated in the first weeks Wimba, I have been asked how I

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Tubes have feelings too. NEW version from Brandi Martin on Vimeo. Made during my TICA fellowship. Also see my (recently unloved) Web site.

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Blurry Photos? It's Camera Shake.After each slide plays, click the next arrow. You can apply for a free teacher account here, but you have to use your school email, and wait a few days for them to review and accept.http://voicethread.com

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I am frustrated because suddenly My school district is blocking Blog sites just as I decided to integrate it into my classes. Here is an email exchange, followed by the videos I sent in response. -----Original Message----- From: Brandi Martin [mailto:bmartin@sd129.org] Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 4:16 PM To: Jeff ******* Cc: Luanne ***** Subject: Re: blocked site I am wondering why all

Brandi Martinhttps://profiles.google.com/113948621057929761520noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5319443842646568602.post-69883814831091320852009-08-31T20:03:00.004-05:002010-11-08T16:15:35.649-06:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Live With Art It's Good For You poster, originally uploaded by Cranky Pressman.Solid blocks of color printed first. Then they type a second time later. Students, take note.

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Photo 1 how many negative shapes here?, originally uploaded by elephantsgerald. gassing up the car

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It seems like a confusing waste of time, helping all my students sign up for flickr, find me on the site, befriend me, I befriend them back, I invite them to join the secret discussion board. But I think it will pay off. For some of the kids this is new. I even like helping kids steal some sports icon for their avatar. they ask how to upload a photo to their avatar from the internet. I explain

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Hi Elephantsgerald, I know you are an art teacher, and I myself am attending Seattle Pacific University as an illustration major. I'm getting worried, though, that I may not be able to find a job in illustration and so I was thinking of switching to art education so I could feel more secure in finding a job. I guess what I am wondering is how you like teaching art? I love teaching art. I am

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Join Us! Getting Started in Flickr.We have a group for all sections of photo online. Here you will post your photos, comment on other students’ photos, turn in assignments, and participate in discussions.  Find Flickr. At http://www.flickr.com/ If you already have a Yahoo account it will be very quick to join.  Find your teacher (and friends!) by asking their username.  Search for them.  

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I flipped to your article first in the Studies art ed journal because, as a SAIC alumni, I'm familiar with Kevin Tavin. I have not read his paper to which you are responding. I found your article very validating and readable. As I finished I wanted to write you, because I have questions and some responses. I teach high school art. I confess that while I care deeply about what I do, I don't

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Your video is what I love about the Internet- it goes two ways- instead of regular people just looking at celebrities a celebrity saw you (ashton kutcher) and shared it with like a million people. you and your friends didn't care that you weren't skinny anorexic models, didn't care if you weren't the smoothest dancers, (though some of you are SO smooth) and didn't get the best cameraman, but

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } 'Count Basie' letterpress poster, originally uploaded by Phil Abel.Using a short quote, and choosing which word to emphasize, is a great letterpress design assignment for AP Students. First a discussion about emphasis- repeat a

Brandi Martinhttps://profiles.google.com/113948621057929761520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5319443842646568602.post-5050028718877229152009-07-23T14:12:00.003-05:002010-11-08T16:32:50.024-06:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } My letterpress project I printed today, originally uploaded by elephantsgerald.This has some faults, but this is a really gratifying thing to do. I can't wait to do more.

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Often students tell me that you can’t judge art, since art can be anything, since it’s an expression, and you can’t judge other people’s feelings. I nod, as if actually considering this. After a pause I throw back my head and scream a blood-curdling screech. They jump. “Why’d you do that?” they ask. “That’s my art.” I reply. “That’s just screaming.” they answer. “But I’m expressing myself. So

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Annotated Bibliography Assignment Information, originally uploaded by elephantsgerald. This is the screen I read when i uploaded my assignment. Hours after emailing the professor about it, the last paragraph disappeared. It

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Never in my wildest dreams did I expect a child to publicly thank me for driving them to the art show to collect their prize. And if I did, I didn't expect it in the form of a vlog. Maybe now my school will unblock youTube?...... No?

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