art ed digested

Our third graders started their stop-motion preparations today, making backdrops, creating storyboards and dance moves for their puppets. Here’s a very quick example that using one of the student puppets and my demo puppet:

(includes what not to do- my hands make too many cameos! must practice more!)

There are so many choices available to teachers now to share ideas and ponder the various trials and triumphs. The blog is a format I began using in early college life, and since then, the blog seems to have morphed into something infinitely more useful and meaningful in our culture.

I am inspired by the work done through the fabulous edublogs familiar to me, especially NeverEnding Search, which happens to belong to my very talented mom.
I will endeavor to make this blog a place to find inspiration, controversy and general musings on the art world, the education world and where those two worlds meet.