What is art? Fun with Wordle.

(Image from Wordle.) This past week in my Theory of Knowledge class, we attempted to define art. Several examples were given until I re-directed the students and told them what we really needed was a definition of art, not examples of it. We sent out an email, Tweeted it, sent it out on Facebook, text messages, and any other way we could think to get our question out there. I told my students in my freshman and sophomore classes that they could get in on it if they could. Once we got our responses, I created word cloud to add to the blog as a means to help us see what the "big words" (literally) were when it came to the definition of art. It was quite an experiment, and as I've never used word clouds before, it was a good exercise for me as well. Our results are here... check it out if you get a chance, and feel free to add your definition via our comments!

Doodle 4 Google

Calling all artists, grades k-12. Google is sponsoring a fun doodling contest complete with lesson plans, idea starters, templates, and prizes. We could have an aspiring student out there who could have their doodle for Google displayed to the world. Check it out. Don't forget to take a look at the video of the original Google doodler, 29 year old Dennis Hwang, what a cool job he has.