Facebook: Lynnsey Nicole (https://www.facebook.com/lynz.nicole)
When I think of Facebook I do not think of a professional development tool. It is a place where I connect with friends and family and metaphorically hang my dirty laundry for the world to see. This is not unusual behavior for Facebook either; many of my friends do the same thing. On the other hand, I have come across many great resources that have helped in my classroom. I follow The Art of Ed, artistaday.com, The art people, artistsnetwork.com, artistic art teachers, and the working artist and they have been so valuable to me as an artist and a teacher. The art people group has been a great resource for finding new artists and techniques. Thanks to that group I found out about Aurora Robson’s recycled art installations and other great programs and techniques for a unit on redimade sculpture that I complied into a playlist on youtube.
Link to playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnuVcWWMzkB879Nm1UP72hRCkI-JLdqu_
Twitter: @lpatter6 (https://twitter.com/lpatter6)
Twitter reminds me of how Facebook used to be: A constant stream of status updates. I am new to twitter but I can already see this will be a valuable professional development tool. I am already following the MOMA, the met, and the Denver art museum for further discovery into new artists and art forms. My favorite person to follow so far is Olivia Gude; her online presence is so colorful (pun) and fun. She has got me thinking about different ways to introduce color in the classroom. Another favorite is Tricia Fuglestad, an elementary art teacher who is a wizard at integration technology in the art room. She was the initial inspiration to create demonstration videos for my classroom over a year ago. It is great to see what other great ideas she comes up with.
Flickr: lpatter6 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/31740087@N02/sets/)
I have been on Flickr longer than anything else. I mostly use it because it gives a terabyte of free space allowing me to automatically sync photos from my phone to the site. In the past year I have used it as an alternative method for giving online presentation in these UF classes. On there I have several assignments from the maps class and alternative settings (that one may be set to private now). I am a follower of many groups on there but my favorite right now is double exposure. I started following it this summer after I purchased an old camera from the 1920s. Nearly every photo that comes out of that thing is double exposed giving a very interesting ghostly feel.
In my classroom I was always a big fan of compiling and obnoxious variety visual aids for every unit. Flickr streamlines this process. All I have to do is type in a theme or idea and BOOM! visual aids galore.
Pinterest: Lynnsey Nicole (http://www.pinterest.com/lpatter6/)
Pinterest is a visual bookmarking/hording site. This has been, like Flickr, a tool I use as an alternative method for giving presentations. Instead of powerpoints I will sometimes just project a pinboard on whatever it is I’m teaching as a way to show a lot of content (images mostly) all at once to enhance discussions. What I like about pinterest is how I can pin anything from anywhere on the Internet. Every time I see something on Facebook that I need to hang onto I go straight to its website and pin it for later use. Because each pin is given visual representation it is easier for me to recall what each pin was about.
Scoop it: Lynnsey Nicole (http://www.scoop.it/u/lynnsey-nicole)
Scoop it reminds me of pinterest but with a more professional feel. I like all the content available in each topic but because the free version only allows me to scoop to one topic I’m not so crazy about this site. Id rather see a lot of adds than pay for something as simple as a bookmarking site. Currently I am following Abstract Expressionism, Art, design, and technology, Artist opportunities, and technology in art and education.
We’ll see, I’m not in love iwht this site yet but it may still win me over in time.
Art Educaiton 2.0: Lynnsey Patterson (http://arted20.ning.com/profile/LynnseyPatterson959)
I love this site. It is basically a database that connects every art teaching in the country, which is kind of a big deal. I am following design thinking, write for school arts, arts and the common core, and STEAM. I have not played around as much with this site as I would have liked so far but I can tell this will be valuable for me for professional development, research, and networking.
The biggest challenge for me being online and globally connected is maintaining professionalism, especially when it comes to facebook. Facebook is my online playground. My other challenge is staying engaged in so many sites. Up until this class I only used pinterest, flickr, and facebook and they took up a lot of my time and focus. Having all of these feels like too much. I can see it becoming kind of repetitive if I follow all the same people and similar groups on each network. Time will tell.
When I think of Facebook I do not think of a professional development tool. It is a place where I connect with friends and family and metaphorically hang my dirty laundry for the world to see. This is not unusual behavior for Facebook either; many of my friends do the same thing. On the other hand, I have come across many great resources that have helped in my classroom. I follow The Art of Ed, artistaday.com, The art people, artistsnetwork.com, artistic art teachers, and the working artist and they have been so valuable to me as an artist and a teacher. The art people group has been a great resource for finding new artists and techniques. Thanks to that group I found out about Aurora Robson’s recycled art installations and other great programs and techniques for a unit on redimade sculpture that I complied into a playlist on youtube.
Link to playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnuVcWWMzkB879Nm1UP72hRCkI-JLdqu_
Twitter: @lpatter6 (https://twitter.com/lpatter6)
Twitter reminds me of how Facebook used to be: A constant stream of status updates. I am new to twitter but I can already see this will be a valuable professional development tool. I am already following the MOMA, the met, and the Denver art museum for further discovery into new artists and art forms. My favorite person to follow so far is Olivia Gude; her online presence is so colorful (pun) and fun. She has got me thinking about different ways to introduce color in the classroom. Another favorite is Tricia Fuglestad, an elementary art teacher who is a wizard at integration technology in the art room. She was the initial inspiration to create demonstration videos for my classroom over a year ago. It is great to see what other great ideas she comes up with.
Flickr: lpatter6 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/31740087@N02/sets/)
I have been on Flickr longer than anything else. I mostly use it because it gives a terabyte of free space allowing me to automatically sync photos from my phone to the site. In the past year I have used it as an alternative method for giving online presentation in these UF classes. On there I have several assignments from the maps class and alternative settings (that one may be set to private now). I am a follower of many groups on there but my favorite right now is double exposure. I started following it this summer after I purchased an old camera from the 1920s. Nearly every photo that comes out of that thing is double exposed giving a very interesting ghostly feel.
In my classroom I was always a big fan of compiling and obnoxious variety visual aids for every unit. Flickr streamlines this process. All I have to do is type in a theme or idea and BOOM! visual aids galore.
Pinterest: Lynnsey Nicole (http://www.pinterest.com/lpatter6/)
Pinterest is a visual bookmarking/hording site. This has been, like Flickr, a tool I use as an alternative method for giving presentations. Instead of powerpoints I will sometimes just project a pinboard on whatever it is I’m teaching as a way to show a lot of content (images mostly) all at once to enhance discussions. What I like about pinterest is how I can pin anything from anywhere on the Internet. Every time I see something on Facebook that I need to hang onto I go straight to its website and pin it for later use. Because each pin is given visual representation it is easier for me to recall what each pin was about.
Scoop it: Lynnsey Nicole (http://www.scoop.it/u/lynnsey-nicole)
Scoop it reminds me of pinterest but with a more professional feel. I like all the content available in each topic but because the free version only allows me to scoop to one topic I’m not so crazy about this site. Id rather see a lot of adds than pay for something as simple as a bookmarking site. Currently I am following Abstract Expressionism, Art, design, and technology, Artist opportunities, and technology in art and education.
We’ll see, I’m not in love iwht this site yet but it may still win me over in time.
Art Educaiton 2.0: Lynnsey Patterson (http://arted20.ning.com/profile/LynnseyPatterson959)
I love this site. It is basically a database that connects every art teaching in the country, which is kind of a big deal. I am following design thinking, write for school arts, arts and the common core, and STEAM. I have not played around as much with this site as I would have liked so far but I can tell this will be valuable for me for professional development, research, and networking.
The biggest challenge for me being online and globally connected is maintaining professionalism, especially when it comes to facebook. Facebook is my online playground. My other challenge is staying engaged in so many sites. Up until this class I only used pinterest, flickr, and facebook and they took up a lot of my time and focus. Having all of these feels like too much. I can see it becoming kind of repetitive if I follow all the same people and similar groups on each network. Time will tell.