Miss Art of Teaching

I love board games and I have a growing collection. I purchased a board game called 'Dixit' but never ended up playing it. Instead, I took out all the beautiful graphics cards from the box and used it to develop my own  Art theory lessons . These cards are drawn with dreamlike features. The following ideas can be adapted with real artworks. I prefer using Dixit cards with my junior classes as it is easier for them to hold and it is visually appealing to them.  Above: Some of the cards from the Dixit box. Dixit  is a card game created by Jean-Louis Roubira, and published by Libellud. Using a deck of cards illustrated with dreamlike images, players select cards that match a title suggested by the "storyteller", and attempt to guess which card the "storyteller" selected. Teaching students how to describe, analyse, interpret and make a judgement can be difficult.  However, these are valuable skills that students need t...

I need to do more lessons outside. Give students a break from the four walls. It also gives them a nice dose of Vitamin D. Besides teaching Visual Arts to Year 7-11, I also teach one class of computers. It is part of the Technology Mandatory syllabus. I am a trained Visual Arts, Technology Mandatory and Design and Technology teacher. With the computers subject, we are using the program 'Illustrator' to make a game logo, five game items and three game sceneries. I will include some pictures in this post. My school's network has been down for two days. Although most of the computers are now ready to be used, they need to re-download all the programs. I've already spent some lessons with the students drawing out possible ideas for their game design and completed a few theory lessons. Instead of punishing the students with more work, I decided to take them outside. Friday was pretty sunny so we ended up spending half the lesson outside and half inside. I have been clea...