History Lesson

        When learning about the boarding schools in AMIS class I got touched by all the stories the teacher experience and from the stories I read. How they were treated poorly and had to work, pray and then go to school made me sad. Also how they were separated from their family.
Another thing that shocked me, I forgot which part of the video that tells us this but, the male teachers back before woman taught was the men who couldn't do other work that helped the village or men who were bad which was interesting.  

Tech ToolKit Numero Uno

So the tech toolkit I am talking about today is, Tumblr. Here is a link to one of my art blog http://thycompanion.tumblr.com/. Basically what tumblr is it's a blog website where you can follow people and they can follow you back. You can post anything from pictures, videos, and quotes. When you post something, anybody that follows you will see it on their home page. You can like a post or you can reblog that post.  I like this website because this is where I get my inspiration to do art from. I follow a lot of art blogs so they will post up their art and that will motivate me to do my own. I think this would work for me as a teacher because I can make a class blog and the students can get the opportunity to follow me and I can reblog art, links to other artist, and even videos on how to do art. What I like about Tumblr is that when you reblog something there is always a link to the original blog that posted it so there is no stealing credit. Also what I like is that there is an option where you can make tumblr notify you when someone is posting, so that can be very useful in a classroom. What I don't like about tumblr is that their is no privacy setting, so anyone with a tumblr can see what you post. I feel like tumblr is one of the easiest to understand, it is not that hard. Basically what you do, is that you follow the blogs you like, you can either like or reblog the post if you like it, and if you want you can post you own stuff. I personal don't post a lot. If I do, it's my own art. How I will use this in my classroom is that the students can follow me if they want to, it won't be "a you have to" thing, and it will just show art that the students can get inspirational from, For example, If we were doing a project on expressionism, I can reblog or post pictures and videos that has expressionism in it so it can help the kids understand and see how it looks like outside of the classroom. Also their are many people who do different types of art so there are many different arrays of styles out their on tumblr from professional to just regular people doing art. Also they have the freedom to follow their own blogs, they can post and reblog the stuff they like, and I can see that and understand what the students like, and also to keep up in culture as well. This is a big step from using books in the art class because in text they show us popular art, art from famous artist, but from tumblr it shows us art from all types of people and they are so many different types of styles in art that people can share online through tumblr.
So this is why I like tumblr.      

EDUC 1500, Why Teach?

"What brought me to teaching? How do I see myself in the work I do? What are my blind spots?"

   I want to specialize in art education. The reason for that is because of my high school art teacher. She influence me to become a teacher. The main reason I chose to pursue to become an art teacher is because when I was going up, into my high school year I had a hard time expressing myself. So I bottled it up inside, which is very unhealthy for my well-being. I want to show the kids that art can help you release you of stress, anger, sadness, and many more feelings that you bottle up inside. I know this is cliche but I want the kids to make a different in their community, I want the kid's art to make people feel uncomfortable, to make feel many different emotions through the arts.  

  I can see myself inspiring the youth and the youth inspiring me to be the best artist we could be. Also to help our community grow, to help the kid's grow as artistes. Also to teach these kid's the roots of the arts, to show them the original message was and how they can create and use art as a medium for change.

  I'm not going to lie, I am very emotional. I feel like my weakness is being to passionate to a point where I will go easy on the kids and they might take advantage of me because I'm to nice.