World War II Relived through Sand Painting

Thanks to Open Culture Blog for writing about this incredible artist.

How did the artist Kseniya Simonova win the Ukrainian version of Britain’s Got Talent? By using the art of sand painting to recount the story of Germany’s invasion of Ukraine in 1941. Life was somewhat ordinary, then it all fell apart. And, by the war’s end, an estimated 10 million Ukrainians were left dead. It’s a difficult story to tell. And I’m referring not just to the story’s content, but to the actual medium too. Thanks Steve for the heads up on this one.

For more sand painting, check out the work of Ilana Yahav.

Learning History of the World

Thanks to Richard Byrne for writing about this amazing resource

The BBC and the British Museum have partnered to create an excellent interactive timeline called A History of the World. A History of the World presents images of artifacts from various eras in world history. The objects are displayed in rings arranged to match each era. Click on any object in the ring to see a larger image and to read about the significance of each artifact. You can browse the collection by clicking through the rings of images or you can browse by location, by historical theme, or by dates.

A History of the World

Online Posters!

A glog is an online poster that allows students to add images, video files, sound files, text, and hyperlinks. Glogs address multiple learning styles and easily incorporate student research and educational content into a web publication. They are free, use no ink, and are fun!"Jan McGee

I've written about Glogster before in the Amschool Web 2.0 Blog. I found this Web 2.0 application to be so amazing and fun for students and teachers.

Here are some related resources that may be of interest to you:

• I found this wiki with information about using Glogster in education. Toolkit4Blog Walker Wiki
• Traci Blazosky has already put together an excellent Glogster tutorial
• Glog On!

  View more presentations from West Monroe High School.
• Glogster Presentation

  View more presentations from digitalmaverick.
  
  

Fun Art Web Pages

Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo for sharing this 2 cool art websites.



Your mouse is the brush and your voice the ink when you create an online painting. Then send it to the site’s gallery to get a unique url address to post on a student or teacher website/blog, and then give a description.



thissand.com, lets you create a drawing with virtual sand, then save your creation to the gallery.

Just follow the instructions by clicking on the gray square

Sketchbooks in Schools

I read about this website in the the art teacher's guide to the internet blog.

Sketchbooks in Schools aims to promote the creative use of sketchbooks in schools through this co-created conversation space managed and directed by AccessArt. Is going to be directed at teachers in the UK but as written by Craig Roland- I’m sure teachers elsewhere who are using or considering using sketchbooks with their students will find this site of interest.

Odyssey

Odyssey Online, is a journey to explore the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and 19th - 20th century sub-Saharan Africa. In Odyssey Online you'll find museum objects from the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia and the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, and the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas. You can make your own discoveries through cool puzzles, games, and worksheets.

Hondurasart.com

HondurasArt.com es un portal de galerías de arte en linea que presenta el trabajo de artistas hondureños.

El portal le da la oportunidad a todos los artistas de cualquier nivel (principiante, intermedio o profesional) con una propuesta innovadora a exponer sus trabajos en el portal siempre y cuando reuna los requisitos y sea aprobado por el mismo.

Entre las ramas de arte que puede exponer (fotografía, pintura, dibujo, diseño, escultura, etc..)

Es una buena herramienta para que los estudiantes que se dedican al arte puedan promover y dar a conocer su talento por me dio del portal.

Vale la pena que nuestros estudiantes puedan conocer el talento artístico propio de nuestro país.

The Teaching Palette

is a blog authored by art educators for art educators.

The Teaching Palette is a blog dedicated to the teachers who constantly work on perfecting the art of education. The heart and purpose of this site is to provide an environment where the love and knowledge of art education will be advanced.

The Teaching Palette features ideas for incorporating technology into art instruction.

Anciet Rome in 3D

Google Earth was the first tool I worked with in technology integration. It just gets better and better that you can explore more than 6000 3-D drawings of buildings in Ancient Rome.

If you want to review on how Google Earth works go back to my post.

Conecting ART with SCIENCE

Jim Gates was the 2007 Edublog winner for best resource sharing blog. I usually spend quite a time reading his post because he shares lots of computer tips. On his May 21rst post called "Chemistry Lesson Idea" he writes about a periodic table of elements where artists created new symbols for each element. Their work included woodcuts, silk screens, linotypes and more. All sorts of colorful images, one for each element.

The idea behind this is to make the student work on a project so he can see the conection between the element and the painting.

Check it out!