• Email Listservs • Getty Art Education listserv• Art Teacher Exchange listserv

• Internet Chatboards• Art Teacher Chatboard

• Online “groups”• Yahoo groups• Google groups

• Web 1.0 websites• Yahoo/Google groups• KinderArt etc.• Incredible Online Art Department• Artsonia

History of the Online Educational Community

Why is the Community Changing?

• Email Listservs• Spam and/or off topic issues• Limitations (pictures, participation, etc.)• Information isn’t “vetted”

• Internet Chatboards• Similar limitations as listservs

• Online Groups• Group is poorly or overly updated• Similar limitations as listservs

• Web 1.0 websites• Non-collaborative• Poor organization• Similar limitations as listservs• Some are STILL relevant

How is the Community Changing?

• Blogs• Blogger• Wordpress

• Social Networking• Facebook• Tumblr• Google+• Wikis and Nings

• Interactive World– Sharing– Questioning– Seeking

• Emphasis on education and life-long learning– Sites developing educational uses– Using “old” technology in “new” educational ways.

Sites and Programs• Sharing/Collaborative-Based Sites to Create Your Online Presence

– Blogs– RSS Reader– Slideshare– Scribd– Pinterest– Webs– Wix– Flickr

• Educational Tools (may also be used for sharing)– Smarthistory– ArtBabble– Glogster– Voki– Tagxedo

Participating: Blogs

• Do not need to author a blog to participate– Comment on blogs– Recommend favorite blogs to other teachers

• 2 popular services for blog publishing– Blogger –easier interface but with limits– Wordpress –can develop websites

Participating: Reading Blogs

• Going to the url of each blog you read can be timely and hard to track

• Use an RSS Reader to read favorite blogs– a web application which aggregates syndicated

web content (news, blogs, podcasts and vlogs) in a single location for easy viewing.

– Google Reader – FeedDemon (designed for Windows)

Participating: RSS Reader

• How does an RSS reader work?– You “subscribe” to blogs and “tell” the reader– The reader aggregates all new posts into one place

Creating: Blogger

• Blogger is powered by Google– Use your gmail to login– Easy set up with templates that can be customized– Limits to embedding pictures– Limits to privacy

Creating: Wordpress

• Wordpress– More complex options, but you need to be savvy– Lots of privacy options– No template editing– You own your content

*See a blogger vs. wordpress comparison chart by clicking here.

Creating & Participating: File Sharing

• Use the internet to find templates, worksheets, and various other “written” aids– Scribd

• Share .pdfs, .docs, and .jpgs with other users• Can be glitchy depending on browser platform

– Slideshare• Primarily for sharing .ppts• Share .pdfs, .docs, .jpgs with other users• Has a button selection to prevent downloading

• When sharing, consider using pdfs and/or making your documents “read only”

Participating: Pinterest

• Easiest way to participate without a blog or website

Creating: Websites

• Why create a website?– A website is like creating your ultimate online profile– Adds professional clout to your online presence– Use to direct visitors to your web “haunts”– Important for sales

• Popular online platforms for website creation– Webs.com (offers free hosting)– Wix.com (flash based, offers free hosting)

Creating: Webs.com

• Simple platform for creating websites• Great for simple, information-based sites• Offers free website hosting

Creating: Wix.com

• A flash-based platform to create websites• “drop and click” style interface• Offers free website hosting

Participating & Sharing:Flickr

• Flickr is one of many photo sharing sites – Powered by Yahoo– Join different groups to share photos – Share 200 photos free, 200+ photos $25/year– Easy to have photo misappropriated

Tools: Smarthistory.org

• An online, free, non-profit, interactive art history timeline

• One of Time Magazine’s top sites of 2011• Possible applications– Student research projects– Quick in-class art history reviews

Tools: ArtBabble.org• Considered the “YouTube” of the arts scene; compiles videos from

museums and modern day artists.

• Partners include: – Indianapolis Museum of Art– Art Institute of Chicago– J. Paul Getty Museum– Hammer Museum– Los Angeles County Museum of Art– Museum of Modern Art– The New York Public Library– San Francisco Museum of Modern Art– San Jose Museum of Art– Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum– Smithsonian American Art Museum– Van Gogh Museum

Tools: Glogster.com

• An interactive, digital poster-maker– Alternative engagement for students– Great project option– Sample

Tools: Voki

• Create customizable avatars that include voice– Use for engagement– Use for projects

Tools: Tagxedo

• Online app that gathers popular words from a text to create an image– Can use your own image or a pre-saved – Use to introduce ideas – Use as a project

Online Etiquette

• Once it is online, it is there forever

• Always link to info you use that is not yours

• Do not publish how-to guides that are based (not inspired) by the work of someone else

• When you blog about a project you/your class did that was inspired from another art educator, it is courteous to link to the source of inspiration

Questions?