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| School Arts Magazine featured Sands' innovative project for students. |
Emily Lindesmith
Editor-in-Chief
Art teacher Ian Sands attended the National Art Educator Association conference in New York in Feburary. Last year he published an article in School Arts Magazine showcasing his “sticky note” project. Sands along with the Media Coordinator of Davis Publications, the magazine’s publisher, presented curriculum focused on integrating technology with traditional art lessons.
He met with the School Arts Magazine Editor-in-Chief and the president of Davis Publications and is now working on two additional articles. Sands said, “One is on the masking tape project and one is on digital grading.”
Sands is pioneering a new form of student evaluation – blogging. He has his students create a blog at the beginning of the semester then add more posts throughout each project. Sands prefers this method of grading because he “gets to see the process of the project not just the final product.” He notes that “when you have projects all over the place, it is much easier to go on the blog to grade.” Students receive a combined grade on the blog and the final product.
Sands is incorporating technology into each of his lessons. “There is a separation between traditional art and computer art and I want to merge the two,” he said. He will speak at the conference again next year on the progress of blogging. Sands states, “The future of art is to merge with technology.”
To see projects by Sands’ students, visit: http://apexhsart.blogspot.com/
