It’s a New School Year!

For the best professional development this year, start twittering and get a strangle hold of your RSS feed/Reader. I find Google Reader the easiest. If you already have a gmail account, you are pretty much set.

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Everyone asks me for good blogs to follow in order to get information, tools and ideas etc. Some of my choices are:

Art Education Blogs:

• The Art Teacher’s Guide to the Internet
• The Carrot Revolution
• The Teaching Palette
• Modern Art for Kids

Art/Design/Culture Related Blogs:

• Art Threat: a web magazine about politics and the arts. They write about political art of all genres, discuss policy as it pertains to culture, and showcase artists whose work inspires social change.
• Better Posters: a resource for improving poster presentations.
• Drawn!: an illustration and cartoon blog.
• Hongkiat: tips for tech users, designers and bloggers.
• IllustrationClass.com: provides info on the illustrative design process.
• Jilian Tamaki Sketchbook: An online collection of doodles, sketchbook work, and occasional process sketches.
• Just Creative Design: offers tips on graphic, web and logo design.
• Presentation Zen: Garr Reynolds giving tips on design for better presentations.
• Slide:ology: Design blog
• Smashing Magazine: Offers advice, tutorials and inspiration on design and technology.
• Toxel: Offers great thematic pictures on culture, graphic design, art and lifestyle.
• WebUrbanist: Offers pics on urban design, culture, travel, architecture and alternative art.

IT/Educational Blogs:

• 2 Cents Worth: David Warlick
• Always Learning: Kim Cofino’s blog
• CogDogBlog: Alan Levine’s blog

• Digital Ethnography: a Kansas State University working group led by Dr. Michael Wesch dedicated to exploring and extending the possibilities of digital ethnography.

• eLeaning Infusion: some good information here especially if your considering using digital portfolios.
• Free Technology for Teachers: (the title should say it all)
• Moving at the Speed of Creativity: Wes Fryer’s blog

• Remote Access: Clarence Fisher’s blog

• The Thinking Stick: Jeff Utecht’s blog

Other Great Websites/Blogs/Nings I follow/belong to: Tuts, Art21, Flowing Data, Art Education 2.0, Daniel H. Pink,

I hope this helps and you find what you are looking for. I’d love to hear any other recommendations you might have as well.