Edutopia

Seems like an interesting website. The only thing I had an issue with was that there were too many things posted everywhere on the website. It makes it feel really cluttered. The post that people put up about teaching and questions about school from different grade level was interesting and its great that people can comment on post that other educators have put up. It is not just for teachers, parents  can look at the site as well and students. Overall, the website is good, and how can you not be surprised and happy when you see that it is funded by George Lucas? Its good to see the director join in the support for a better teaching and learning space for students of all grade levels.

Chicago Artists Resource

The website is very easy to navigate around. There is not too much being piled into the home page. I like the stories of the artists that they posted on the web site. I love that they have a space where they posted notices for upcoming events that artists can apply and submit their art works in! Very helpful, especially if we want to get noticed more as an artist. I liked that they had a place for space listing for artist's studio and etc. Pretty cool website and I think I will start to use it.

Tygogrphic self portrait

My typographic portrait of myself using the letters in my name. I really stretched out those letters to create this image.

Art:21 Yah!

Art:21 is such a an interesting and helpful website. Where else will you go to watch clips of artists at work and explaining their works and process at same time. You can just roam down the list of artists that they have and watch a clip of them at work or you can also write their name on the "search box" to find a specific artist. I also like that for each artist they give a background of where they come from and a description of the type of work and themes that they focus on. One of the artist that I found and love now is a man name Pepon Osorio. He does a lot of detailed, collage based installations on the idea of identity and culture. He wants people to react to his works and give their own interpretation of what the work means to them. He also did this project where he created for a family he knew a collage doll house that went through fire, with items knocked about the place and the family standing outside of their home in grief. Basically he is trying to portray a narrative piece of this family's life experience. What makes this project so cool is the "home visits" that he does where the art piece would be display within a person's house for a week, and they would have people come over to view the work that is one display at that person's house.  After a week passes, the art work move again to another home and stays there for a week to again allow people to come into that person's home to view the work, and it keeps going on, hence the term "home visit."I just find the idea of home visit to be really cool and would like to try something within that nature in the future.

Mess Hall and Three walls

Well, Mess Hall looked like it was a great place for to create art, talk politics, just an all around cultural creative place! It would have been a great place for me and my best friend to go if only we knew about it before hand. Too bad they are not of existent anymore. The website for Mess Hall is really white, bare and plain. I didn't find it so interesting.

Three Walls website is a little more interesting. I like that they had pictures of the upcoming events in a slide show format once you go to the website. I got a little confused as to where the links were until I clicked on the page and the website with the about, home, and etc links pop up. It was easy to navigate around the site. There was a lot links under some of those tabs on the left side of the site, which kind of overwhelms me a little.

Which is Better? ArtsEdge of PBS teachers?

In looking at both websites, format wise, they both seem fairly easy to navigate aorund. PBS teachers offers lesson plans, discussions, and even professorinal developments for teachers to look at. In the lesson plans for each topic, it gives a full format plan on how to go about teaching it. It also gives lesson for other subject matters as well. It is great that they have a discussion group, but you need an account in order to read it them all. Although the idea that they also encourage teahcers to bring in PBS Kids shows in their classroom is cute, I feel that is still missing a few items. This site is obviously just meant for teachers to look through and not parents or students. In comparsion to ArtsEdge whose website was also easy to navigate around, they also provide lesson plans, they also have how-tos and even show the standards for teaching different grade level for all visual, performance, and musical art. It also give you sections for parents and students to use the website in order to create their own fun art projects at home. So which one is better? They are both good places to look at, but I sort of want to side with the ArtsEdge's website just because it provides more options for teachers to look at. But I admit that the LearningMedia Center that is linked to PBS is pretty good and it offers more lesson plans, standardsand other options for teachers to look at too. It be a tie for me.

Street Level Youth Media and Teaching channel

First off, I am happy that such a site exist! Teaching channel is a blog for teaches where one can talk with a fellow teacher and get advise from for us first time teachers... hint, hint. It also a great place to see how other teachers came up with great lesson plans in teaching different subject for all grade levels. I like how organized the blog or website is too. The Street-level is also a great site for kids to take free art clases in different types of media. Wish I knew about this place before. It sound like it is similar to Marwen with its free art classes, only they have more and different art classes though.