Update about my Embedded Widgets

It appears that at least one of the two embedded widgets that were on my blog were causing all kinds of problems. I was able (not easily) to delete the two widgets, and my blog appears to be working OK now. To delete a widget, go to the "Layout" page. Click on "Edit" by the widget you want to delete. When the change page comes up, you will have to click on "Remove" and then "Enter" (and very quickly if your blog has already been affected.) I had to try this several times until I did it quickly enough to get the widget deleted. The "bad" widget causes the page to go off somewhere to other sites, that is why you have to accomplish the edit quickly. If your blog has not been affected by one of these "bad" widgets, I would recommend that you delete widgets that you are not sure about anyway. My blog was not the only blog affected by embedded widgets.

Thing 23

The video has quite an impact. It really makes the point about how the internet, and all the technology that supports it, has evolved and is continuing to evolve. The rate that technology is evolving is quite literally too fast for any one individual to keep up with. I think this rapid march of technology is possible because of the "new" collaborative and interactive internet.

One way my thinking has been changed is that I am now wondering if we are adequately preparing our students to live and prosper in this 21st century technology. Do high schools have staff who are trained and current in teaching technologies that probably change before the semester is over? How would staff keep current--given that teaching is a full-time activity already? The way we teach technology will probably have to change--with more interactive and actual on-line training in real time. All staff will have to use technology as an integral part of their content areas--just as we have tried to incorporate writing skills into content areas.

I will most likely use screencasts for "make-up" lessons for students who are absent. I will definitely go back and use Flickr to bring images into my lessons, and for organizing my own personal photos. I will also learn more about the wiki and continue to fine-tune mine. Videos from YouTube and United Streaming that demonstrate art (clay) processes might be used in my high school classes. I have made copies of all the text in 23 Things and most of the tutorials so that I can re-study them in the future--"practice makes perfect," so it is said.

I am not intuitively a "techie" kind of user--but this course has given me a bit of confidence by refreshing skills I already knew (but had sort of forgotten,) and given me some really cool and current new skills. I have become really excited about what I have learned and am eager to do more exploring on my own.

This has been a great opportunity, and I would like to thank the district for offering it and the two moderators for a job well done. I feel this course really needs to be taken by every staff person in the district at some point.

Site Directory for Web 2.0

This link to the site directory for Web 2.0 will be very handy.

Web 2.0 click here.

Thing 22

This Thing was fun! It will take a lot more playing with my wiki to really get it going, and I especially need to explore other wikis that are similar in nature to mine to garner ideas and tips. A wiki offers quicker responses/communication than a blog, and is definitely more interactive. Wiki members can edit or collaborate on the information that appears on the wiki. Blog viewers cannot edit content--only post comments. A blog is more a passive activity for the viewer. A blog is probably more appropriate for presenting information when no real interaction with the viewer is expected.

So far I have only invited a few people to join my wiki--it's still in its "beta" stage. Click here for a link to my wiki: http://cabernetcabaret.wikispaces.com/

Thing 21

Wikis are great. I registered on Google Earth and then tried to download Google Earth here at school, but only an administrator can do it. I plan to download it at home later. (I want to zoom in on my house from space!) The educational links on Google Earth seemed outdated. Does this mean that educators are not using it much? It is not the best wiki for my content area anyway.

I did find a useful wiki at "Examples of Educational Wikis" set up by an elementary art teacher. She uses the wiki to inform and plan with the classroom staff and administrators in her building. This is a great idea to collect info on what each classroom is doing in other content areas (curriculum maps) so that art projects could become more relevant to students as well as interdisciplinary. Teachers could add ideas for projects and also pick up ideas from the art room on topics for writing activities in their classrooms. A wiki like this would make my planning of the annual grade one field trip to the Wadsworth Atheneum so much easier--eliminating emails all around with the five, first grade teachers. A wiki like this would take a bit of time to set up, and it will definitely have to get put on the back burner for now--my time from now through May is pretty tight.

My favorite/most fun wiki (and the one I spent the most time exploring,) was wikiHow. I searched all kinds of topics--and thought the "Howcasts" were great. One of the topics that gave me an idea for a fun/personal wiki was "wine"--how to learn to appreciate wine, how to taste wine, how to store wine, how to decant wine, how to remove and use wine bottle labels, how to use wine corks, how to open a wine bottle with no tools, etc., etc. My husband and I are really into wine and belong to several clubs and a tasters' group. (The tasters' group meets infrequently because we all live busy lives.) It would be great to have a wiki where all our friends (and other wine lovers) could list what wines they have tried, where they purchased it, and review it for the whole group. Others who have tried the same wine could add their ratings also. Bargain hunters could share tips. People could trade wines. Members could share thoughts on pairing specific wines with specific foods. Etc., etc. This wiki would be easier to get going and not as formal.

Well, with Thing 21 "under my belt," I am heading home. I hear a Pinot Noir calling my name!

Thing 20

One could spend a lot of time browsing here, as I kept clicking on related links. Looking over the NHS eBook collection did not turn up any books specifically devoted to art. However, I was able to uncover many resources within other books. Searching under "Mythology," I found an article titled "Painting the Story," which described Aborigine bark paintings and Navajo sand paintings--both of which I use in my elementary classes as inspiration for art projects.

In "North American Indian," I found an article titled "Art Second to None," and found images of the Kwakiuti tribe's shaman's elaborate ceremonial masks. Clicking on the "List of illustrations" showed several other images of Indian artwork.

The Gale Virtual Reference Library site seemed easier to use than the Marshall Cavendish site. The Gale site was less cluttered and it was easy to skim the titles. Many of the items in the NHS catalog had links directly to one of these other sites. An initial search under "artworks" at the Marshall Cavendish site under "World Cultures" produced "no results." I searched again for "pottery" and found 148 results. I liked the feature at each of the links where clicking on the "Image Gallery" produced thumbnails of the pottery featured. I was able to get larger images and to print them.

Browsing under other headings ("Photographs," "People of Eastern Asia, Australasia and the Pacific,") produced other images and information on pottery. In the past it has been difficult to get students to do any kind of research on art topics. However, I think it might be possible to have my Ceramic students search for and create a personal collection of images that would serve as ideas and inspiration for the clay work that they are asked to produce for me. I have magazines and other hard copy images available in my room, but these are mostly ignored by students. If I required students to save a collection of pottery images to a folder that I would check, this would certainly increase their exposure to visuals that would enhance their clay work. One of the greatest problems students have is coming up with ideas for shapes and forms, textures and details--mainly because they lack a background of visual experiences. I think students would be more inclined to search for images online than to thumb through magazines--and I am sure their "searches" would be more productive and interesting as well.

PS--Thing 19

Still no luck uploading my screencast to Twitter on the second day of trying. I may try to record a new screencast on my home computer, and I will try to upload the screencast manually later. But I must leave Thing 19 behind for now in order to finish my remaining Things.

Thing 19

OK, I have been working on Thing 19 for a total of 7 hours, and cannot get my screencast to upload. I used Screenr and made a first screencast--(not too bad)--but every time I tried to upload it I got a message back that said "Whoops, having trouble uploading right now, try again later." Well, I tried for more than 3 hours on my school computer with the same message. When I tried to make a second screencast (thinking that there might be a problem with my original attempt,) my original version kept popping up--I finally realized I had to delete the first one before I could attempt a second. After completing the second screencast--(much improved over the first one,)--I got the same message about having problems uploading my screencast. I tried every 10 minutes or so on my school computer until 8:00 pm. Earlier, I went to the other free recording sites, but the tutorials were over my head, and the attempt I made on Screencast-o-matic did not upload either. Every time I re-signed in to Twitter, my screencast was still there on Screenr, so I assumed that I could log in on my home computer and try uploading from there.

However, when I logged in to Screenr here at home, my screencast was not there. I am moving on to Thing 20 (actually already started 20 and 21,) and will make another attempt on my school computer tomorrow to upload--assuming that my screencast is still on that computer. This Thing was actually pretty easy, and I enjoyed recording. But the technical problems turned this Thing into a real bummer.

Thing 18

I have never been a huge fan of listening to radio--I guess that I am more a visual learner than an aural learner. This is probably the reason that I am not very into podcasting--I would rather read info. Most of my students are elementary level, and I cannot imagine them sitting still long enough to benefit from listening to informational podcasts. However, it would be great to have podcasts with lively storytellers for these students. Although I couldn't find any, podcasts that have creative and lively narratives, which also include/teach content material in social studies, science, history, etc., would also give young students practice with listening and concentration skills. Another way to use podcasts with young students would be to have them record their own stories, book reports, and ideas to share with peers and the school community. The school computers could access a site which contained a whole library of student podcasts on reviews of books in the school's media center. Students could listen to the podcasts to help decide if they wanted to read the books for themselves.



I listened to 5 podcasts, none of which I felt would be useful in my classroom. I listened to a talk given by a Panamanian artist, Isabel De Obaldia. This was episode 11 of a series called "Meet the Artist," sponsored by the Corning Museum of Glass. I choose this particular podcast because I am interested in glass as an art medium. Below is a link to De Obaldia's talk:

http://www.epnweb.org/player.php?podshow=http://www.cmog.org/podcasts/meet_the_artist/cmog_mta_011_isabel_de_obaldia.mp3&podcast=Corning



Museum of Glass - Meet the Artist&program=Meet the Artist 11: Isabel De Obaldía (audio)

Thing 17

I actually embedded two slide presentations. One is an excellent resource for any art teacher on the basic elements and principles of design. (from Slideshare) The other slide show (from Zoho) I chose because the photographs were clever and interesting. Slide presentations from Slideshare would be useful to introduce lessons and give overviews to students. Outside of the classroom, these presentations could be used to provide information and programs at all kinds of meetings. And because these resources are easily shared, they could be e-mailed to colleagues, and to family and friends for their information or enjoyment. In fact, I e-mailed two of the slide shows to two fellow art teachers.

The Elements and Principles of Design

This slide presentation is basic for all art classes. The graphic exemplars are excellent.

Elements & Principles of Design

View more presentations from Z M.

This slide presentation is from Zaiba Mustafa at www.digiartport.net.

Fun with Altered Photos

I love looking at interesting photographs. In the slide presentation below, the photos are cleverly manipulated. Hope you enjoy them, too!




This slide presentation was created by R.K. Chennai, and taken from Zoho.

Thing 16

I spent some time looking at LibraryThing, but decided it was a little more than I wanted to bite off right now--it was busy and sort of complicated to get started. I do have several friends who are big readers with whom I trade books, so this is a tool I will go back to later.

I ended up spending the most time exploring the MANY templates on Google Docs. I first tried the photo album, but discovered that it was actually a very simple version of PowerPoint. After browsing pages and pages of templates, I did a search for "award," and found a couple of good ones to use with my elementary art students for excellent art work. A search for "certificate" produced a couple more that were good. All of these templates were in a PowerPoint format as well, and took four or five various clicks to get to a place/screen that allowed me to print the cerificate out. There are other sites that offer free templates, which I think are actually easier to use. I did fill out and print three certificates (two styles) for students. I also found a template for a gift certificate, which I printed out for my daughter-in-law's upcoming birthday. I no doubt will use this template again, as I frequently give "certificates" to family members for services and "time" instead of material gifts.

Thing 15

I think Cloud computing is great for people who need to work "on the road" or at several work locations. It has been cumbersome to email documents from school to my home computer so that I could work at home. Then, after editing the document at home, I had to email it back to school and replace the original version with the edited version. Also, we could only email files, not folders. When I am working on a lesson unit or some other document/project for school, it makes sense to create it at Google Docs.

Does SkyDrive have the option to create new documents at that site? I uploaded two documents to SkyDrive, but couldn't find a way to create a document at SkyDrive, so I went to Google Docs and uploaded the same two documents. I then created a mini-document and saved it at Google Docs.

I am not sure that I would use Cloud tools with students.

Thing 14

I am already on Facebook, but I made a copy of the "5 Steps to Stay Safe on Facebook," and will carry out these steps to increase the safety of my account.

I chose to join Ning initially because it included an area for educators. I also found a site for ceramic/clay artists that was good.

I was definitely made more aware of privacy and identity theft issues since working on Thing 14. I have made a copy of the "11 Tips for Social Networking Safety" for continued reference. Some of the 11 "tips" were eye-openers for me--especially the ones about fake sites and not letting the networking service scan your e-mail address book.

I can see that joining one of the art sites could put me in touch with other elementary art teachers who might want to share lesson plans. If contacts were made this way, I would think that asking them to share lesson plans through the Delicious site would be more efficient.

Thing 13

I created my account at Delicious because it seemed simpler. Diigo had so many features that it was a bit confusing. While trying to get the Delicious "buttons" on my tool bar, I somehow ended up with my Delicious bookmarks on my netvibes start page--and my other widgets on my start page had disappeared!(Maybe I shouldn't be doing this so late at night!) Anyway, I will see about fixing my start page later. Delicious buttons are installed on my tool bar.

One could definitely spend hours searching tags! I am always looking for new art lessons for my elementary students, and searching this way is definitely more productive than searching with Google. Because the bookmarks are on Delicious, I can work on lessons while at school or at home. Delicious will make it easier to share sites with my colleagues as well.

About Delicious

I have embedded this video about the features of Delicious so that I may review it in the future as I begin to use social bookmarking on a larger scale.

About Diigo

This video is great for explaining what Diigo can do. I have embedded it here for future reference.

Thing 12

Tagging is certainly much more efficient than bookmarking or creating favorites on your own computer. Already my list of favorites is so long that it is difficult to find the site I am looking for. In addition, if I don't visit the "favored" site often, I usually forget what is on the site, or why I "saved" it in the first place. Tagging would eliminate these problems. Tagging is sort of like "googling" information that you have already spent the time to find. Advantages: (1)saving time re-searching for information that you have researched before; (2)having access to other people's searches; (3) access to your resources from any computer. I can't think of any major disadvantages.

Assigning tags should be done carefully--make them clear, efficient and truly helpful. Don't be too vague or broad with tags, avoid run-together tags and investigate to see if others have used the same tag (or a different version of that tag,)and how often.

Thing 11

I seemed to have the same trouble with these widget things that I did way back when we were supposed to put some on our start page! I did manage to get two on my blog page: a mini-piano that can be played, and some swimming fish that follow where the mouse points--which I thought young kids would like. When I tried to embed Art Painter, (one of the widgets on Google's list,)I got an error message when it was published on my page. I think maybe the code was not copying correctly. I deleted this widget, but may try to embed it again later. I think Art Painter would be a good addition for my students to interact with. They could create pictures and put them directly on the web.

Thing 10

I think for me, that Twitter would be a colossal waste of time. I already use Facebook, and the 3 or 4 times a week that I use Facebook keeps me in "enough" touch with those people that I want to keep "connected" with.

I explored 3 of "The Best of the Web 2008:" ColorBlender, DonorsChoose, and CocktailBuilder. CocktailBuilders was the most "fun." I spent quite a bit of time listing all the ingredients in my home bar, then reading and copying all the mixed drinks that I could "build" with ingredients on hand. I can hardly wait for my next party! Seriously, though, I don't think this site would have many educational applications unless you needed to work as a bartender while putting yourself through school.

DonorsChoose was very interesting. School teachers from all over the country list "projects" that they would like to do with their classes, and donors can click to donate any amount to help that teacher. Donors and the teacher-recipient can also post comments back and forth. When the teacher's "project" is fully-funded and completed, photos and "thank-yous" are posted online. Donors can go back to the site and see how the fund raising is coming along, and donate additional amounts if they choose. This is a great resource for teachers in under-funded districts. It could also be used to teach students about sharing whatever resources we have with the greater community.

Thing 9

The Disney video, although clever and probably a lot of work, was difficult to listen to, and was not much help. The comic book by Duke Univ. Law School was full of information--but much of it was irrelevant to me in my job. The Creative Commons website was very confusing--with all the "letters" and no explanation of what these letters actually referred to. The short YouTube video was better. While on 2 of these sites, I clicked on links and found that Flickr had the best explanation of the Creative Commons licenses. I also found a link to a document put out by "The Center for Social Media," a part of the School of Communication at American Univ. in Washington, DC,that was an excellent guide that identified five principles that represent the media literacy education community's current consensus about acceptable practices for the fair use of copyrighted materials. This document was titled, "The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education."

I definitely see teaching and learning becoming more technology-based. But whether this is necessarily a good thing is not truly clear. Of the 6 emerging technologies discussed in the "Horizon Report," the grassroots videos is probably the one technology that I would see using in my classroom. Tutorial videos and art process demonstation videos would definitely be helpful and probably reduce my planning and prep time for certain lessons. The collaborative webs and collective intelligence are two things that I could see using in the future--but I have the feeling my career may be over before these technologies are commonplace.

Elementary art students are rarely expected to do research, and opportunities to teach about the ethical use of interactive resources would also be rare. But as a user of someone else's work, I must remember to set a clear example for students by acknowledging the creator/author of anything I use in my classroom. I feel fairly confident that the use of copyrighted materials in my classroom, would definitely meet the "fair use" standard.

Thing 8

I have listened to this video over and over again, and I never get tired of it. Aretha Franklin has always been my favorite female vocalist, so that is why I put her name into the Search box when I was first exploring YouTube. I was really surprised to learn that she had performed operatic music, and was awe-struck at what a moving rendition she performed. Hope you all enjoy this video as much as I do!
PS--I never realized embedding videos was so easy!

Amazing Performance by Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin, with only 22 minutes advance notice, filled in for Pavarotti with this opera piece--infusing this famous piece with her own unique style.

Thing 7--YouTube and Video

Whoa! One could spend hours and hours viewing videos on YouTube! I guess that it would be very useful to "catch up" on any happening or event that one might miss--somebody probably videotaped it! I enjoyed searching for and finding old (really old) TV segments. I like the way that related videos are displayed also. After viewing the video "In My Language" from the suggested list, I was drawn into viewing about a dozen more videos on autism. I really learned a great deal about this disorder. Watching/viewing symptoms of autism really put a face on this disorder--much greater impact than merely reading a book.

Searching for videos for elementary art lessons didn't yield anything very useful.

I was able to accomplish Thing 7 on my computer at Reynolds School--YouTube is not restricted in our building, at least not on my teacher computer. I had no trouble viewing the videos.

I viewed a performance by Aretha Franklin singing an aria from the opera "Tarandot"--"Nessun Dorma." She was filling in at the last minute for Pavarotti, who was supposed to sing it, but was ill. Her performance was stunning--and I have copied the comment I left below:

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I have always loved Aretha Franklin--but this performance makes me realize why--so strong, and her interpretations of the music are unique. Like any artist in any medium, the same subject matter can be portrayed in astoundingly unique ways. I loved this version as much as Pavarotti's--both wonderful and so moving, and yet so very different.

Thing 6

I uploaded 5 photos that were already on my computer. But did I understand the limits correctly, that I can only upload 10 pictures a month? If this is correct, then Flickr will not be any help to me at all with my travel photos, which number in the hundreds!

I did not right away figure out how to establish the privacy level for individual photos, but did successfully label one "public." I will check back in a few days to see if a search with the "Newington23" tag will show my photo.

I could see where this would be great for doing a drawing lesson with a class by showing each step of the process. I will have to wait to try something like this until I get a SmartBoard, however.

I tried several of the "extra" features--played a Photo Sudoku and several Memory games.

On to Thing 7!

Thing 5

Thing 5 was great. I had no idea that Flickr had so many facets. It is a great new resource for doing image searches for my elementary art classes. I got "stuck" for several hours just looking at photos! Now all I have to do is upload all my photo memory cards to Flickr so that I can erase all those cards and use them again, instead of buying new memory cards for my camera! So now, instead of fretting over not finding time to get prints from my photo cards and "albumatizing" them, I can now fret over not having time to upload, label, and digitally organize all my memory cards! However, if and when I actually do this, my family and friends will not have to keep bugging me for my photos...

I downloaded 5 images from Flickr. Three were of a fourth grade art project, and two were third grade art projects. I did a search for "elementary student art" in the hopes of finding some new ideas for projects with my own classes. These three projects were different and so I decided to keep them for possible use with my classes. I hope I can upload these images to my blog successfully. Later...actually it took me awhile to figure out how to upload the photos--had to use the "Help" section. I finally figured out how to delete the first photo from my home page (where I didn't want it posted,) and actually create a new page for my 5 photos. Took me awhile to get how to "edit" stuff also.

Frustrated by Thing 4

I already had a home page at Windows Live, just didn't know it was a "home page"--just thought it was some sort of default opening page. My husband fixed it so that I could follow the weather in 6 cities--where my kids live, etc. I should have left well enough alone! When I tried to create a page with Netvibes (to impress my husband with my new "tech" knowledge,) the problems began. After I (think) saved a page with Netvibes, I was never able to go back to change anything. I could never find the "Add Stuff," couldn't access any drop down menus for wallpaper, themes, etc.--only for column layout. Finally, I went to iGoogle and started over. Now I know it is me because the Google page got created (somewhat,) but doesn't seem to work right either, and I can't seem to change stuff. If I knew how to just delete both of these home pages, I would start over--or better still, just keep my old default page!
What I did add to iGoogle: weather (I could do all 6 cities, but couldn't get them to show all at once like on my Windows Live page;) several news sources; calculator; calendar; time; Art of the Day; Dilbert comic; facebook (although it never seemed to load;) twitter; classic solitaire game; Smithsonian National Gallery of Art; Orbitz travel; Expedia travel--and maybe some other widgets that I can't remember. I think it was just too much "stuff," because after clicking to add all these widgets, I had a hard time finding them, and the page just seemed to keep loading forever. Plus, now everytime I try to go to just plain ole Google to do a search or find an image, this home page comes up and takes forever to load... I am going to consider Thing 4 done so that my head doesn't explode, but I would love it if someone could tell me how to undo all the mess I have made on these 2 pages!

Thoughts on Thing 3

This "thing" was quite alot to digest! It brought home the reality of just how many blogs are "out there!" (The video in Thing 1 said "millions!") I guess one would really have to zero in on specific topics to follow. Time to read/follow all these blogs is something to consider. The blog about "Teaching Learners with Special Needs" made this "time" factor come to mind when the gal(teacher) writing the blog had a list of about 100 "blogs that I read!" Whoa!

The many different examples (suggested list) of how blogs could be used was amazing. I copied many of the ideas and pasted them into a word document to save for use later. Several suggestions were ideas that I had already thought about, and I came up with many other ideas: 1) using my blog to post examples of student artwork; 2) using the blog to serve as a way for parents and other staff to see what students are doing in the artroom; 3) posts serving as an education/learning tool for parents and other staff to expose them to art curriculum, standards, concepts, media, etc.; 4) students could comment on what they liked/disliked about a particular project, and also restate the learning from the lesson; 5) I could provide links to activities that the students could do at home--such as virtual museum visits and art games; 6) I could post an "artist of the month" (such as Pablo Picasso,) with in-depth biographical and art info, and provide links for students to see examples of the artist's work--and then space for them to write an opinion of the artist/works; 7) I could post optional "quizzes" after units are completed on the blog and let students post their "answers."

Another idea that I had was to have an exchange with other art classes--in Newington, in Connecticut, in other parts of the country, and even other parts of the world--where we could share student art work and special projects. I have contacts with art teachers in all parts of the U. S. and also in Japan and Thailand. Now I just need to find the time to get started!

Speaking of the "time" thing, one of the comments that I left as part of completing Thing 3, was a comment/question for the special education teacher: Just how does she prioritize and organize her time to keep up her own blog (which was very impressive,) and all the other blogs that she follows? I left a second comment on "Corneau's Place."

Lastly, I looked at all the "settings" for my blog. One of the things I changed was the "time zone." I noticed that Maureen's comment to me was posted at 5:00 am! I thought, wow, she is up and at it early! Then I noticed that the blog was on Pacific time. Changing it to Eastern time automatically updated the correct time. I also added the email address "newington23" to my blog, so that all my posts will automatically be sent to you. The video clip was very helpful, but I still did not understand all the options or what they were about.

On to Thing 4!

Thing 1 and Thing 2

I have always had an interest in computers and technology, although I am not a "natural" or a "fast learner" with this medium. I make up for an intuitive aptitude by taking as many tech workshops as I can (repeating many of the same workshops,) and practicing with the technology available to me.



Thing 1 was interesting--in so far as seeing what the possibilities are with all these new tools, but was a bit overwhelming at the same time. The article by David Warlick seemed somewhat unrealistic, given the technology currently available to me, but it contained alot to think about.



Because I have just recently learned a little bit about Discovery Education's United Streaming, this is one Internet tool that I will try in my classroom soon. I do not have a SmartBoard, but I have a TV monitor connected to my computer that students can view from our "listening carpet."



Having a blog for elementary level children might be a challenge, but I might try it with our fourth graders. If given access to my new "23 Things" blog (which will showcase some of their own artwork,) they could provide feedback on what they liked/disliked about the project, and restate learning from the lesson.

ReynoldsArtSpot

This bulletin board displays fantasy animal mobiles that first graders created during a visit to the Wadsworth Atheneum Art Museum in Hartford.

ReynoldsArtSpot is a site to check in on what the students at Anna Reynolds Elementary School in Newington, Connecticut, are doing in art. The art teacher is Mrs. Kathleen Martin, who has been teaching art in Newington for 15 years. Reynolds School has approximately 450 students in grades pre-K through grade 4. Students in grades kindergarten through grade 4 visit the art room for one, 45-minute session every week. Check in to ReynoldsArtSpot often to see what each grade is doing!