On b.a. profs and high expectations

I heart teachers with attitude. High expectations yield high performance. Seeing it happen reminds me why I want to teach. I gotta be "meaner"

Brooklyn Museum blog/ NAEA

check out these 2 posts! Wonder if the album cover could be adapted for the classroom? The coolest part though, I think is the total lack of direction and people's willingness to engage anyway. People like to make stuff!

oh, and play I spy.

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/blogosphere/bloggers/category/education/

the NAEA site is so well-designed. It's organized, I know what I'm looking at, and it's easy to find the tabs I want to look at. The colors are great. My favorite is the e-portfolios. So nice of practicing teachers to post their mission statements, especially since we hafta write one soon... I'll be bookmarking this.

On the subject of table saws and time limits

20 minutes is not sufficient for changing a Dado blade, and cutting a rabbit if you've never done it before.

aic and museum two resources

I wish Blythe and I had done our homework in the opposite order! We came up with ideas similar to these sites, but it would've been a lot easier to let them do the work for us! I particularly like the interactive aspect of the blog where visitors can ask questions, and i love that whenever a museum is mentioned, it's a link to the museum site.

Valentine's Pancakes

You'll hafta check FB. The images take too long to upload to here. Any suggestions?

Root Canals

There is bleach involved. Yes, Clorox bleach. Hey, it's a disinfectant. And actually, you're not supposed to know that.

What's the BIG IDEA?

No really, help me out here. Does anyone know what the "big idea" is?

Seriously?!

The nauseating side of art.
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/giacometti-bronze-breaks-world-record-auction-price/?hp

This is a Secret

Once, I made an art project where I published my scandalous secrets on tee shirts and gave them to the class as gifts. There is at least one person in Chicago who has (and wears) one.