Tools for Teaching Art Online is a guide that helps you teach the art of drawing to your students while taking full advantage of the Web. This book covers topics ranging from interactive lesson plans to interactive whiteboards. Author Ron Larson provides his take on the state of teaching visual art today, including why he thinks web-based teaching should not be considered second-rate.
Students love to create artwork—and teachers love to see their students engage creatively. The Tools for Teaching Art Online online course takes a fun and interactive graphic design approach to teaching art basics that build student confidence and creativity through both visual and movement experiences.
Seesaw
This app allows you to create activities and lessons to share with students and families.
Google Classroom
Organize and share content directly with students. Plus, it connects all the other cool parts of Google with it.
TikTok
Why not get in on the fun of the short-form mobile videos? Make a silly one for your students. Listen to see how these videos can be beneficial. Let them know you are thinking about them. Plus, this app can be monitoredby families and parents.
Remind
Reach students, parents, and colleagues where they are via their phones. If your community can text, they can use this app.
Pixel Art with Google Sheets
“Pixel Art” is a style of drawing where you make images out of a small grid with limited number of colors (sort of like the old video game graphics from when I was a kid). This can be a neat art activity for students as is forces them to be creative within the limitations of a small area and color palette, and consider what is really essential to illustrate an item or idea.
One way to create pixel art is by coloring in the cells on a spreadsheet. This can be done with the “paint can” button in Google Sheets, but to make the process quicker and easier, I created a spreadsheet template that uses conditional formatting. All you have to do is type letters into the cells and corresponding colors will be filled in.
You can get the template there or make a copy of it with the link below.
20-Color Pixel Art Template – Google Sheets link
Self-Portraits with Google Drawings
Anyone who reads my blog knows how much I love Google Drawings . Recently I came across an awesome activity from Julie Lyle on using Drawings to create self-portraits.
In short the idea goes like this:
- Create a Google Drawing and insert a photo of yourself.
- Next use the “Polyline” tool and the “Curve” tool to make colored shapes for all of the different portions of your picture.
- When done, you can then delete your original underlying photo and you will be left with a digital “clipart-style” image of yourself.
Screencastify
Easily record, edit, and share videos with your students. All from your desktop computer.
ClassDojo
Build a whole classroom community, the best part is, it’s free!
Edmodo
Send messages, share class materials, and make learning available anywhere.
Educreations
Record your voice and iPad screen to share lessons and ideas.
Google’s Arts and Culture
Android mobile app
iOS mobile app
Google Arts & Culture is a website from the Google Cultural Institute dedicated to collecting and sharing art, photographs, and primary source documents from all over the world and throughout history. Items are organized by themes, artists, mediums, movements, historical events, historical people, places around the world, stories of the day, and more.
With Google Arts & Culture (https://artsandculture.google.com) students can get closer to works of art and historical artifacts than they ever could in a museum. The digital items were scanned or photographed by Google using an ultra-high resolution camera so you can see every brush stroke, letter, or detail. Some of the collections even feature 360-degree videos and photos to immerse you in the experience.
In addition to the amazing website, there is also a mobile app version of Google Arts and Culture (Android or iOS) that adds another fun tool. The mobile version includes the “Selfie” option that lets you take a picture of your face, and then it searches thousands of artworks to see if any look like you.
Art Palette
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Overview – https://experiments.withgoogle.com/art-palette
Launch Tool – https://artsexperiments.withgoogle.com/artpalette/
Color is one of the fundamental aspects of art, used to communicate mood, style, and ideas. So Google decided to create a search engine based on color! Art Palette allows you to search through thousands of paintings, drawings, sculptures, and more, based on colors you choose. Students can then use the results to explore similarities and connections between the color-matching art. Here’s how it works:
- Go to the Art Palette site at: https://artsexperiments.withgoogle.com/artpalette/
- Use the color bar at the top to select the colors you want to include in your palette.
- Google will now display a grid of artwork that use the colors you have chosen.
- Alternately you can click the “From an image” button to upload a picture or use your webcam to take a picture for the site to match against.
Dialpad
Dialpad has a VoIP for education solution that provides an easy to use application for schools where teachers & students can meet, text, chat, and interact online.
Students can engage with teachers within virtual classrooms using screen sharing, whiteboarding, and chat features. Teachers can also set office hours, share class recordings, and connect with the faculty all within the same platform.
Dialpad is accessible on a variety of devices, including tablets, smartphones, computers, and laptops. Using Dialpad helps to reduce IT overhead for schools, and removes the requirement for hardware.
Teachers can meet students remotely, and create online classes instantly from anywhere in the world. They can also send out bulk SMS messages to check in with students on assignments, send updates, and announcements. Schools can set up advanced call routing rules for students to reach the correct department or desk, so teachers never have to worry about missing important phone calls.
There are so many features available on Dialpad, that we couldn’t even fit all of them here. For teachers interested in an all-in-one application, Dialpad offers a free 14-day trial.
Gnowledge
Gnowledge is an education platform teachers can use to create and share tests, quizzes, and exercises. It emphasizes a simple and easy-to-use interface, so you won’t waste time trying to learn how it works. There are thousands of quizzes on numerous subjects available on the site, and once you’ve chosen one to give to your students, you can distribute it to the whole class or only specific students. They’ll then be graded automatically. You can also store frequently-used assignments so you have ready access to them.
Cost: Free
Conclusion
Color your way to artistic success with these excellent online art supplies. Watch, listen, learn, paint and share bold palettes of color palettes with our step-by-step fundamental lessons. Whether you are a beginner or an established artist, you will find everything you need to teach art online.