Because I typically Google search everything that I wish to find out about, I began looking for feeds via Google Blog Search. I entered "art education" in the search engine which yielded lots of great articles. At Huffington Post I read about a Principal Dancer in NYC's Ballet and her take on the importance of arts education. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ashley-bouder/arts-education-preservati_b_826311.html) I also learned about a national exhibition sponsored by VSA, the Organization for Arts and Disabilities out of California. This article was about a little girl who was selected to participate from California. (http://www.prlog.org/11335479-stardust-arts-student-is-selected-to-represent-california-in-vsa-nationals.html)
While these (and several others) were great articles, they did not seem to be part of a continuum that could be subscribed to in an RSS reader. I searched the entire post along with entering back into the greater website to find a way to subscribe to them as a feed. These two examples seem to have come from a larger hodgepodge that would be presented to me upon searching for "art education" rather than picking out blogs exclusive to the topic. For example, the first article from Huffington Post (which contains articles on a plethora of subjects) was probably chosen for me out of the masses because of its relevance to my search. I would not, however, wish to subscribe to the Huffington Post because it would simply send me too many (unrelated) articles. I began to get frustrated that I would not find any good feed to subscribe to concerning art education.
Then I stumbled upon The Carrot Revolution: an art education weblog and a resource page for art educators, art students, and artists in the digital age. (http://carrotrevolution.blogspot.com/2011/02/comic-artists-do-perspective-better.html) The first post that popped up pertained to a refreshing new book that is out on teaching perspective. An earlier post introduced me to the Google Art Project (http://www.googleartproject.com/) where you can take a virtual walk through several art galleries and even zoom in really close on some of the paintings. As a future art teacher, the Carrot Blog is a great feed to subscribe to. The feed will deliver lots of valuable information right to my RSS reader.
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