Artsonia

= = [|Artsonia]

...the world's largest kid's art museum

Resources

 * [|How to Create a New Account]
 * [|How to Publish Artwork]

Strengths

 * Free to upload art work
 * Creates a gallery for your school
 * Art project lessons are available for teachers
 * Provides artist award certificates for download
 * Art work is only publish with a child's first name and a random number - last names are never published
 * Parent moderates all comments made on a child's artwork via email notification
 * Working parents and split family members can take part in their kids' education.
 * Provides a printable permission slip to send home to parents
 * Ad free site
 * Can be used by teachers in all grade levels, including prekindergarten.
 * Can be used as an enhancement for a school's art program
 * Motivates students to put forth extra effort into their projects

Weaknesses

 * Artwork takes a few days to be published after upload
 * Uploading can be time consuming for teachers
 * All schools listed, not just the ones with submissions, so looking at local schools is often a wild-goose chase.

Opportunities

 * Provides an authentic audience for student work
 * School earns 15% when parents and relatives purchase custom keepsakes featuring their student's work
 * Create online portfolios for students
 * Students are able to share their artwork with anyone online (parents, grandparents, friends, neighbors)
 * Increased parent involvement in student's work
 * Participate in a themed project or contest

Threats

 * Need to make sure students do not put identifying objects or words in their artwork

Ideas for Use in the Classroom

 * Create year long (or school long) student portfolio
 * Share work with sisters schools
 * Art project lesson planstarters
 * Learn to critique peers' art work
 * International art projects by looking at work from other countries
 * Pair art work with a story
 * Sell copies of art work for a school fundraiser
 * Issue awareness campaign using art work and share with the community

Examples of Use in the Classroom

 * [|Ceder Creek School]
 * Black Hawk Artsonia Gallery
 * [|St. Thomas the Apostle School]
 * Liberty Elementary School
 * Job Crusher Review