The Elements and Principles of Design

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

Elements & Principles of Design

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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.