- I'm a visual artist so I would like it to be visual with a good clear layout
- It needs to be contemporary about the art world and/or teaching and/or ILT
- Not too heavy on text as I find reading on-line totally draining
'Teachers toolkit' gets the vote as the UK's favourite teaching blog
If you want information and
opinion about teaching then it is a really good blog. However if you are like me and feel exhausted
by trawling through electronic information overload, this is a bit heavy
going. Another recommended teaching blog
comes from Thomas Starkey, a FE teacher in the North of England,
On the art side of things, a
popular blog is the intriguingly titled 'Sleep drunk I dance' which has by far
had the most page views of any artist blogs on the a-n website (formerly the
Artists Newletter journal). While it is
extremely popular it is not for me.
Emily Speed struggles with
the lack of money as an artist at
Set up as she says "to
explore some of the issues facing artists trying to make a living out of this
business" (Speed, 2009), a link from there takes you to a very interesting visual blog
on tumblr.com where artists are invites to upload mind maps on this idea.
Linking with the earlier blogpost of mine on
mind maps, take a look at this  |
| Gordon Dalton's mind map on being an artist |
And here follows the two blogs I will be following, as they seem to me to compliment each other in regards to my Art & Design teaching practice and PGCE study.
'Jonathon Jones on Art' blog for the Guardian definitely meets my criteria: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog
'Jonathon Jones on Art' blog for the Guardian definitely meets my criteria: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog
It is well laid out and
easy to see what's going on. The
blogposts are contemporary, informative and thought provoking with titles that
get you interested for example 'The art world's shame: why Britain must give its colonial booty back' and 'Will gay art tour of the Vatican get the Pope's seal of approval?' These two blog posts would
make excellent starting points to a student group discussion on the
contemporary understanding of art and culture.
Perhaps it could be given as an 'advanced organiser' as proposed by
Ausubel, to connect to the learners' prior learning and to prime them for the
lesson (Curzon, 2000: 104)
This next blog I wish I had seen before starting my own blog:
This next blog I wish I had seen before starting my own blog:
http://www.bettshow.com/blogs/
This is the blog page of the BETT show (formerly known as the British Educational Training and Technology Show). This blog has extremely relevant information on the subject of ILT in learning and teaching, with blogposts such as: 'Tablets in Education - The Pros, Cons and How to Manage them' and 'How best to integrate technology in the classroom'. I highly recommend this blog to all teachers looking at using technology in teaching and learning.
This is the blog page of the BETT show (formerly known as the British Educational Training and Technology Show). This blog has extremely relevant information on the subject of ILT in learning and teaching, with blogposts such as: 'Tablets in Education - The Pros, Cons and How to Manage them' and 'How best to integrate technology in the classroom'. I highly recommend this blog to all teachers looking at using technology in teaching and learning.
Bibliography
a-n The Artists Information Company. (2014) 'Blogs'. Available at: https://www.a-n.co.uk/blogs [Accessed: 20th January 2015]
Curzon, L. B. (2000) 'Teaching in Further Education' (5th ed.). London: Continuum.
Speed, E. (2009) 'Getting paid'. Available at: https://www.a-n.co.uk/blogs/getting-paid. [Accessed: 20th January 2015]
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