Hello, my name is Kathy Grimm. I’m an artist and a teacher living and working
in St. Louis, Mo. Art Education Daily is my online journal dedicated
to the art
and design interests of my older art students, colleagues and family
members. Most of
the posts included here will list artifacts that I use in the
development of elementary age
students, middle school students and high school students. This blog represents a collective listing of
teaching resources, observations, articles and lesson plans I developed
during my state certification, summer internships and professional
development programs.
Although not all of the content found here is unique or original, it is sometimes
necessary for art teachers to adapt the contents of a web journal for easy
access by their students and colleagues. Teachers may feel free to utilize
these resources in their classrooms as they wish. However, I ask that you not
propagate the jpgs. on alternative public websites because many of these are
either my own original materials or have been significantly restored by myself
for the expressed purpose of resourcing the materials to teachers. This does
not limit, however, the number of copies that artists and crafters may produce
apart from of the internet for their own private or creative interests.
Some
school districts have very restrictive policies concerning the number of
websites that may be visited by students within their own private libraries and
classrooms and it is for this reason, I have begun to write several online
journals for own classrooms: Thrifty Scissors, Easter Egg Crafts , Crayon Palace and The Doll Coloring Book are a few examples of my online journals for the classroom. In addition to
these, I also have a Bible coloring page website and a very popular Christmas blog called, The Belsnickle Blogspot.
I include
methods of practice mixed together with themes among my entries. This is because art educators
very often design lesson plans under the method or practice of art instead of
the theme alone. However, this blog may be very helpful
to those teachers developing lesson plans based upon math, science, history or
literacy as well. Artifacts here may be used to integrate subjects into a wide
variety of agenda and should not be seen as limited to those practices or
interests of art teachers alone.
Virtual/Educational artifacts are listed according to theme on the left hand
sidebar. Artifacts on this blog, may be used by teachers to construct or
further extend lesson plans without the worry of violating copyright laws in
the United States. Although most all of the articles posted here are written by myself there are also articles from the public domain. I have meticulously researched and have
represented these public domain materials here specifically for the purpose of free use under
American copyright law for educators. Patterns, templates, graphics and
worksheets etc… not created by myself are listed under the designer's name and may be propagated by teachers within the context of a classroom environment according to American copyright law.
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Where do the materials come from and how may these be
used?
Some of the
articles, all of the craft instructions and those original materials by Kathy
Grimm are copyrighted. Make sure that you know what is what before presuming it
to be public domain resource. All of the coloring pages, worksheets, puzzles,
cartoons and illustrated poems are either cleaned and restored here or are
created entirely by myself or my family members.
The
photography with copyright notices used in the craft articles is the sole
property of Kathy Grimm and may not be used elsewhere on the web.
Google also sometimes uses our photos to link to our site through images or by
maintaining web history through their archive.org
searches. By submitting our content to Google we agree with the practice, however,
this does not mean that we have similar agreements with webmasters who claim to
have search pages that do not provide a direct link to our blog with every
image or post listed. Search pages at pinterest
do provide direct image linking to our blog, so this search software is a good
example of a company software using a correct and ethical linking practice.
The
videos posted on this blog belong to their prospective owners and are not in
the public domain! These videos are provided by the youtube services freely in order to promote
viral searches that are related under the category of education on this blog. When
you upload a video at youtube, you agree to this practice.
Some of
the content redistributed on this blog comes from the generous people at wikipedia.org. Wikipedia freely distributes
both encyclopedia articles or current articles that have been both dedicated to
the public domain or have passed into the public domain by default. These
articles may be freely printed by all school teachers. However, the articles
should not be misrepresented as belonging to people who have not actually
written them. If you include these in a publishing hard copy, you must
reference their original authors in the back of the book, assignment, or report
as you would for any resource used or quoted when compiling a book or turning
in a paper.
All poetry transcribed on the blog
is in the public domain. If the
author is not listed with the poem then I do not know who wrote it. I am,
however, certain that the poetry is in the public domain. If I know the author of the poem, I note him or her with the
poem.