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Aesthetic Education Resources

1.) www.Pinterest.com www.pinterest.com



 With this new and innovative website, users create a member login and password to create categorized boards that share important, creative ideas and inspirational thoughts that revolve around the user, through pinning. One of the great features of this webpage is the excessive amount of ideas that teachers can grab from other Pinners and ultimately gather an unlimited amount of ideas. For example, if I were to look for a lesson plan incorpirating art and reading, I could search the webpage and find a pin from another member. I would then click the picture and it would instantly direct me to the users blog, or a website that the user used to create something that is relevant to my search. Then, if i wanted to save this blog or webpage for future reference, I could pin the idea to my board and then share with other members. Overall, it is a continuous cycle of pinning and sharing. Take a look at this picture that I grabbed from my Education Board: So here we have a 52 different painting ideas for children to experiment with texture and miscellaneous objects. While I am on the webpage, all I have to do is just click on this picture and it will direct me straight to where this idea was made! This could make for a very fun classroom activity while incorporating aesthetic education principles! 

This is a very creative project to do with students. There are different herbs and spices for students to use for painting. Along with this idea there is a website connected to the picture on Pinterest that allows the user to click it to find the recipe and other creative ideas to go along with it.

This is a very clever idea for any teacher expecting a quick and easy cleanup when illustrating writing or using coloring materials in the classroom. Each student will have their own DVD case to enclose coloring materials. Not only will this be  to store in a classroom but it   will also give students peace of mind   where all of their coloring tools are located!

This resource is very beneficial to any teacher and more importantly, those who wish to incorporate the creative side of learning. Trying to find teacher blogs and ideas through Google.com is OUT! These teacher websites are everywhere (and can be hard to find) but with Pinterest, the creative minds of others can be explored! Happy Pinning :)

2.) www.Tumblr.com  www.tumblr.com

I have recently just became a member of Tumblr! While most people do not have enough time in the day to constantly be on the computer reading and reseraching, Tumblr is an amazing tool that I believe every teacher should own! Alike the Pinterest website, Tumblr allows its members to search and re-blog helpful, interesting, creative, powerful ideas! Being curious, I decided to do a couple quick searches. While searching aesthetic education on Tumblr today, I found members who have created blogs about the Lincoln Center and even some of the authors that we have been reading and studying in class. Next I was able to search student art and find an ENDLESS amount of ideas. Finally I searched early education and found articles that members have posted that lead insight to ideas that may be found helpful in the classroom. Overall, Tumblr may be overwhelming (with the endless amount of ideas, readings, members, and information that can help an teacher reflect her philosophy of education in the classroom), but utilizing this website will allow me and other individuals to build quick and efficient ideas in learning. So as you can see, this is just some of the ideas that I found under student art. Easily you can see here that this is simply just special ways to display student's art in an inexpensive way!

Next I was curious to find a way to involve dance in the classroom. After searching (for about 2 minutes) I found a blog that a girl posted about using your body to make the shapes of the Alphabet! This is very creative and helpful because she also shared the book that you can use, her reflection of the activity, and how the students responded!

SO COOL!



3.) www.Youtube.com YOUTUBE   EVERYONE knows about youtube these days! Whenever we want to try and explain something, learn how something can be done, share ideas, find ideas, ETC ETC, we instantly go to Youtube. For the classroom, teachers can use this website to demonstrate, teach, learn from, or share, with just about anything and everything. While thinking of youtube and aesthetic education, I immediately thought of it as documenting students theatrical performance. The teacher can first show a quick video of a theatrical event. She could then connect the idea to a core subject such as history. Then the next step could be video taping the students and document their performance! Overall, the students will be able to look back and view their performance in class and reflect upon their performance. **Keep in mind that the students would need permission slips from the parents!!** Utilize this awesome resource whether you are researching, playing music, studying a topic...

4.) www.StumbleUpon.com <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%; text-align: center;">Stumble Upon  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Again, this is another great teacher website for inspiration and raw information. Designed for spontaneous findings throughout the internet, users are given the opportunity to stumble upon selected interests. Being so spontaneous, members of this program and stumble throughout different webpages that otherwise may have never been encountered. I would use this website when I am looking for something interesting and super creative to use in my classroom. Alike Booth's ideas, Art should be spontaneous! It may take a little bit more time to //Stumble// across something but all in all, its fun and creative :) This can be used in the same intended purposes as #1 and #2

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%; text-align: center;">www.Teachertube.com <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%; text-align: center;">Teacher Tube <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> TeacherTube.com is another website that is closely similar to Youtube.com and GOOGLE. After exploring this website I found it even more helpful than Youtube.com when exploring educational topics. Its Modo is Teach the World, and truly, this is the intended meaning behind this website. With this website, a teacher can explore all areas of aesthetic education and incorporate its effects into the lesson. One idea that I wanted to highlight was the ability to learn songs that students can learn that help teach something. So for example, if I wanted to teach the 50 states, I could have my students listen to and learn from a video posted, and practice each day. Overall, this webpage can be used in multiple ways to gain access towards utilizing different tools to support aesthetic education in the classroom environment.