Comments on: art-depart-mental

By: Sheree Rensel

Sheree Rensel — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:49:27 +0000

LOL LOL LOL Don’t you LOVE educational “systems” and bureaucracy!! However, I must admit during my day job routine, I have to deal with both entities. I should be thankful because the exasperation and duress it causes me makes me realize I am not insane. If I was, I wouldn’t see the idiocy of these situations!
The wiz

By: Cheryl Colan

Cheryl Colan — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:14:19 +0000

Yes! We tried to buy a Jasper Johns print of one of his flag paintings – great minds indeed! Someone in the administration put the kaibash on it. So we have to get it out of next semester’s budget.

By: Sheree Rensel

Sheree Rensel — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:29:07 +0000

Ah yes! The “Elements and Principles of Art” posters. I have the same ones in my classroom. My degrees are in fine art and I came into teaching through the back door. When I first started teaching I was unaware of some art ed speak. I kept hearing art educators talking about the “elements and principles”. I never heard of that! When I found out what they were talking about, I thought “Oh, I never read about those, I just USE them!! (Great Minds)
For your flag, would a Jasper Johns print of a flag painting do?
Also, MACS RULE!! I am “bilingual”. Have both Mac and PC. My PC is the meat and broccoli. My Mac is the dessert!
wizzlewolf

By: Cheryl Colan

Cheryl Colan — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 07:38:54 +0000

@Heath, you crack me up! They do look a bit like giant poops. But they’re really sidewinder rattlesnakes. And they’re cast in bronze. You don’t shit bronze, do you? That would be a pretty impressive superpower.

I think it’s cool to have the Declaration of independence – and I’d like to have a copy of the U.S. Constitution around too. The reason I’m disdainful is that the AZ legislature made a law that says every classroom in the state has to have the U.S. flag and the Declaration on display. Not like one in every school. One in every classroom. I don’t think they offered schools any funds to help buy these things. So they basically forced all the schools to waste a huge sum of money buying flags and posters, money that could have been spent on things students actually need for their education. i wonder if the flag and poster people are giving kickbacks to the AZ government. It’s just a stupid law – and they wasted time drafting and voting on it when they could have been solving real problems in education. Oh, you got me started. Don’t get me started.

By: heath

heath — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 05:25:09 +0000

when I saw the screen shot of the video, I thought it was giant poop on the floor and I got excited becauase I wanted to see the beast who did that…..then I found out it was “art”….apparent’ly I make “art” 3 times a day…. I’m sorry, I am cracking myself up…loved the post and I think it’s kinda cool to have the declaration of independence actually….

By: Clintus McGintus

Clintus McGintus — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:48:53 +0000

I want to come to school!

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:39:51 +0000

Ha! I suspect Jay was around there somewhere. It was definitely one of his.

Fantastic classroom. I’d love to sit in there for a few hours. Maybe you see things differently having to teach there all the time, but I’d love someone to show me how to use Final Cut Pro properly.Steep learning curve. I sort of grope about on instinct . Not always the best way to proceed. I need instruction.

More tours please.

By: Cheryl Colan

Cheryl Colan — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:37:15 +0000

Ha ha GoGen – some of my students do melt down when they have to use these beasts. One in particular this semester just hates the Mac. I have to keep reminding him it’s just a tool and that he is the master, not the other way around. And that it’s good to be competent with more than one operating system. He still whines lake a grumpy old man though. At least the screaming has stopped.

By: GoGen

GoGen — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:32:34 +0000

Being a PC/Windows user, I’d melt down screaming like a vampire on a sun, if put among those Macs, LOL