Journals+in+the+Classroom

=Journals in the classroom=

Links to info about journals: Using sketchbooks with students in schools Lesson plans, handmade sketchbooks and journals, etc.

=Links to blogs that serve as online journals:=

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=Links to groups that act as journals, provide journal prompts, provide tutorials for specific journals, etc.:=

[] Illuminations: Visual Journaling Inspirations http://maryshunt.blogspot.com/ Altered arts and journals [] Exploring Journals as a Creative Tools [] Unique handmade journals [] personal approach to journaling. Soul Journaling prompts [] How to Collage in Your Art Journal [] Keeping an art journal and Art Journaling [] What You Need to Start Creating an Art Journal. A list of useful supplies for art journaling. [] Art Journal videos with Suzi Blu [] How to Use an Art Journal [] How to Keep a Journal [] Want to keep an artist's journal? That's an illustrated diary or journal, usually (but not always) related to the creative process [] Aisling's Personal Art Journals, 2000 - 2004 [] __ Art __ journals generally combine visual journaling and writing. Every imaginable style, media and technique is used by art journalists. There are no rules! []

How to Add Fold-Out Sections to Art Journals & Altered Books [] online meeting place for artists [] blog about one persons journals [] How to Create Booklet Inserts For Art Journals [] suggestions for getting started [] journals created from textiles [] demo of journals with layer [] journals of //**Roben-Marie Smith**// [] mixed media journal tutorial [] circle journal tutorial Easy Peasy Journal Part 1[| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud5c8OOkkN0&feature=related] Easy Peasy Journal Part 2[| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRAvqjxLGcM] Soul Journaling Prompts:[| http://www.souljournaling.com/prompts.php] flickr Art Journal[| http://www.flickr.com/groups/37622761@N00/] =Yahoo Groups:=

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SoulJournaling/ Art Techniques Art Techniques ATCs Artist Trading Cards Altered Books AB Altered Books

=**Image resources:**= AlphaStamps Lisa's Altered Art www.artchixstudio.com www.alteredabbey.com store.doverpublications.com

=Books:=

//**Artists' Journals & Sketchbooks Exploring and Creating Personal Pages**//, Lynne Perrella, 2004 Quarry Books, ISBN 1-59253-019-2 //**Book +Art - Handcrafting Artist's Books,**// Dorothy Simpson Krause, 2009 North Light Books, ISBN-13: 978-1-60061-154, ISBN-10: 1-6061-154-0
 * //Making and Keeping Creative Journals,//** Suzanne Tourtillot, 2002 Lark Books a division of Sterling Publishing, ISBN 1-57990-387-8
 * //Visual Chronicles - The No-Fear Guide to Creating Art Journals, Creative Manifestos & Altered Books,//** Linda Woods & Karen Dinino, 2006 North Light Books, ISBN 13: 978-1-5810-770-7
 * //Collaborative Art Journals and Shared Visions in Mixed Media,//** L.K. Ludwig, 2009 Quarry Books, ISBN-13: 98-1-5253-520-0, ISBN-10: 1-59253-520-8
 * //Living The Creative Life-ideas and inspiration from working artists//,** Rice Freeman-Zachery, 2007 North Light Books, ISBD 978-1-58180-994-7
 * //Taking Flight - Inspiration Techniques to Give Your Creative Spirit Wings,//** Kelly Rae Roberts, 2008 North Light Books, ISBN 978-1-0061-082-0
 * //Creative Awakenings - Envisioning the Life of Your Dreams Through Art//**, Sheri Gaynor, 2009 North Light Books, ISBN-13: 978-1-660061-115-5
 * //Jounal Spilling-Mixed Media Techniques or Free Expression//**, Diana Trout, 2009 North Light Books, ISBN-13: 978-1-60061-319-7 (pbk.: alk. paper), ISBN-10: 1-60061-319-5 (pbk.: alk. paper)
 * //Making and Keeping Creative Journals//**, Suzanne Tourtillott, 2002 Lark Books, ISBN 1-57990-214-6 (hbk), ISBN 1-57990-38-8 (pbk)
 * //Altered Books, Collaborative Journals, and Other Adventures in Bookmaking//**, Holly Harrison, 2003 Rockport Publishers, ISBN 1-56496-995-9 (pbk.)
 * //Painted Paper, Techniques & Projects for Handmade Books & Cards//**, Alisa Golden, 2008 sterling Publishers, ISBN-13: 978-1-4027-3193-8, ISBN-10: 1-4027-3193-0
 * //The Complete Guide to Altered Imagery, Mixed-Media Techniques for Collage, Altered Books, Artist Journals, and More//**, Karen Michel2005 Qurry Books, ISBN-10: 1-59253-177-6, ISBN-13: 978-1-56253-177-6
 * //Image Art Workshop, Creative Ways to Embellish & Enhance Photographic Images//**, Paula Guhin 2009 Creative Publising International, ISBN 978-1-58923-450-5
 * //Paper, Building Great Designs with Paper//**, Lesa Sawahata, 1998 Rockprt Publishers, Inc., ISBN 1-56496-514-7
 * //The Creative Edge, exercise to celebrate your creative self,//** 2009 Nort Light Books, ISBN-13: 9781-60061-111-7

=Other useful sites:= www.art-e-zine.co.uk www.alteredbookartists.com

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=How other teachers are using Journals:= My husband started a sketchbook exchange on Flickr. It's called MolyX and the artists involved all use a Moleskine, Japanese fold journal. The sketchbooks are exchanged, physically, all over the world and images are posted on Flickr. Perhaps this will interest you. Here's a link: http://www.flickr.com/groups/moly_x/ Victoria Thor

On vis sketchbks/jrnl--I use for process...I analogize with the [|students] that their sketchbooks are like practice is with athletes(place to work out things, try things, to improvise, to note, to cut loose, to record, to save,etc. Also, a few sketches (outside projects--do not use the word homework), and periodic reflections. And of course the more experienced the student gets, the more divergent/expectant the book goes. And anyone from Leonardo to danny Gregory prove to be strong exemplars. I do not put the pressure of these books being 'showcase-y'(unlike some)...that keeps the focus on process. Ralph Caouette

I'll be doing a presentation on Visual Journals in Baltimore. I have the kids use their sketchbooks and produce double paged artwork including comments, poems, ideas etc. I'd love to meet you face to face. I mainly have the students use the images to produce their work in printmaking. Donna Anderson

Hi! I teach Art Ed Methods at Keystone College in LaPlume, PA. My teacher candidates [as I like to call them - esp to distinguish them from "[|students]" they teach] create journals and I encourage them to "USE" the journals for brainstorming, collecting ideas,visualizing, writing about various themes that I give to them. I only require that they keep up with the assignments and weigh the journal between 5 and 10 points on their grade. I do not want to have them making "artsy" journals just for the sake of getting a better grade. I just want them to become more reflective and find a way to make a journal useful to themselves. The content is uppermost. However, I would like them to be involved in the making of an art work that involves a book. One of my "TC's" gleaned a wonderful outline from the PAEA conference two years ago, I believe, from a a Professor Nordlund at Kutztown. It is an "Enduring Ideas" book assignment. They must each come up with a "Big Idea," create this book format, create a cover and one page and then we switch each week. I am also participating. We each must create a page in this each others' book. There is high energy and interest about this, in spite of the extra work it involves. I have been seeking ways to concretize the idea of Enduring Ideas and themes for them. This is reaching my goal. Also, part of the assignment is to each take a "Post-Modern Principle of Possibility" [Olivia Gude] and illustrate it on their one page [and elsewhere, if desired]. They must also journal about this process and, at the end of 8 weeks of exchanges, get the book back and then "unify" and respond to it. Their reflective journal should include comments and reactions to the assignment and also ideas about how this relates to [|teaching]. One student asked if this would be a good assignment for high school or middle school. I am leaving it up to them at this point and I am about to review their journals for the mid-term. I am acutely aware that they have very limited time as students - but this Big Idea Book project has allowed me to integrate two concepts in contemporary Art [|Education] theory and allow them to practice and have discourse about them. So far we have taken a few minutes at the beginning of class to share progress. I will report back about how things are going. I will also send them Martin Rayola's link - thank you very much! another great example of a working journal. Please let me know if anyone out there has done such a Big Idea Book and any tips for success you can give to me. thank you! Beth Burksauser

Kris talked about journals and I wanted to add that the journals of Guillermo del Toro, the director of Pan's Labyrinth, are something that everyone should see. They can be seen, along with del Toro's comments at [] We often spend more time making journals in class than we do helping students get in the habit of keeping journals. Martin Rayala

For Kris Troxell- Hey, I am going to NAEA. I use journals with my 7th and 8th graders. They decorate the covers and I laminate them. Then they create pages on their own and with weekly assignments on various subjects. I use the journals to help them reflect on who they are as artists and decide what they want to say about the world through their art. Many of my students love the tool and continue it even after they graduate from my school. Hope this helps. Linda Conti