I checked out some useful Web 2.0 Tools that classmates from our UW-Whitewater course researched and provided links to. Three that I found very interesting were: Collaborative Drawing Tools, GoogleEarth and Polling and Quizzing Tools. I tried each of the activities that these tools provided and I wanted to share with my followers what I discovered!
While trying out the Collaborative Drawing Tool called ImaginationCubed, I found I could use this tool with my art students to do freehand drawing and my kids could express their thoughts via pictures. While teaching art, this tool would help my students get ideas flowing for sketches. I discovered, while doing the suggested activity listed under this wiki, that kids could also do a "group" drawing project. Art products can be edited form various computers. I tried out the neat drawing applications of this tool and realized that it would be a nice collaborative way for my students to invite friends and classmates, via email, to join in on a group drawing.!
Another interesting Web 2.0 Tool that I learned about was called GoogleEarth. This would be a nice tool to help younger students learn their address and to become familiar with their surroundings in relation to where they are located compared to friends, neighbors and their school. Science teachers at my school could use this to teach students about the moon and planets. In art, this would be an awesome tool to help kids see buildings etc. from an aerial perspective and as 3-d forms. After downloading GoogleEarth 5, I saw some really beautiful 3-d images of buildings, maps and landscapes. GoogleEarth5 would serve as an image resource for my art students!
The last Web 2.0 Tool that I checked out that some of the students in my class researched was called Polling and Quizzing Tools. This would be a nice tool for teachers to use to gather information about what curriculum is being taught within their grade level/content area and/or to compare one school district with another. Online polls and surveys would be useful in art class with my upper-elementary students to get feedback from them on what they learned from various lessons throughout the school year. In trying out "Survey Monkey", I realized that I could get very valuable information from my students about my art lessons and teaching that they might not be willing to share with me verbally, in person!
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I'm interested in hearing how you'd use the collaborative drawing tools in art. It's so different drawing with a mouse than with a pencil or paintbrush. It's also interesting to hear how you would have students collaborate on artwork. That's not something we ever did in art classes.
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