“Born to Draw” iBook Series are viewable on Mac Laptops and Desktops with Mac OSX 10.9 Mavericks

What a gift from Apple iBooks

Both iBooks in the Series are now viewable on mac laptops and desktops

Anyone with Mac OSX 10.9 Mavericks installed on their laptop or desktop can now view iBooks right on their computer.

“Born to Draw” and other LIONap iBooks are now viewable on your desktop and laptop!

The MAC OS X 10.9 Mavericks upgrade is a free download that allows you to view iBooks. You can now view, click on the step-by-step illustrations in the Born to Draw iBook and project the assignment in the classroom for your students to draw.

This Common Core aligned drawing program allows teachers the interdisciplinary advantage of offering drawing with their lesson plans via Apple Laptop, Desktop, iPad, Mini iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Read more →

INTERNET SAFETY

Protecting Children’s Privacy Under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)

Below is a video link that outlines the rules of COPPA and our privacy policy links can be found in the footer of every page on the website.
In order to for your child attend the Born to Draw Virtual Online Classes parents need to register and fill out and return the Registration form that allows their children to attend the online art classes. This is a strict rule that conforms to the law in order to retain compliance and integrity for the Born to Draw program, in order to lawfully obtain your email link and allow you access into the classroom. Please follow the directions on the Virtual Art Room page. Please be sure to read our Privacy Rules.
Protecting your children is our responsibility, as well as, protecting the privacy of our client’s information.

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Registration for the Born to Draw Saturday Morning Classes Begin on Saturday January 26 for the first Session.

Born to Draw Saturday Mornings

Jacob age 11 completed charcoal drawing is the Summer Session of Born to Draw

2 sessions:  Total length of class time 2 hours including set up and clean up

Session 1: January 26 – March 2, 2012 10 am – 12 noon

Session 2: March 23 – April 27, 2012 10 am – 12 noon

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Here is a great article from guest blogger Lisa Pemerton on art education. Sharing ideas like this is important because it relates to interdisciplinary common core subject matter. This project is showing what is possible and how art can be made to have a lasting impression.

Mariah Art: 25 of program’s students help create ‘vibrant’ mural for wildlife refuge center

LISA PEMBERTON | Staff writer • The Olympian—Published September 04, 2012  Creative Commons License 4.0 Attribution

Mariah Art students installed a mural about the life cycle of a salmon last week at the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge’s Environmental Education Center.

“I’m really proud of it,” said 12-year-old Ellison Roycroft, a seventh-grader at Griffin School. “The colors are really vibrant.”

About 25 students worked on the project that involved 180 4-inch-by-4-inch hand-painted ceramic tiles, said Diane Gaile, the school’s owner and director.

“The children drew individual pictures and the teachers put together the composition,” she said. “It’s all original. They painted all of the animals that are on it.” Read more →

Using the Born to Draw Children’s Drawing program From the New iBooks series, participants will learn observational drawing through mark making, line, shape, placement, textures, value, color and perspective. Each class is geared for a child to complete a drawing of an animal or a still life during class time. Other activities include making a portfolio, learning about the color wheel, and more. Materials will be provided.
this class is a more formal drawing class that children will develop skills that they will have all through life.

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We invite you to read the NYT article by Nicolas Kristof. There have been other studios that Elaine Cimino Studios has been working with who have seen the Born to Draw iBooks and have commented on the environmental aspects of the books and said they would not want to stress these type of issues in their children’s educational programming. I am glad to see that this article was published and that it gives others the courage to teach sustainability in their classrooms.

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Reprint of NYT Article February 2, 2010 Creative Commons license 2011
Op-Ed Contributor
By SUSAN ENGEL
New Marlborough, Mass.

THE Obama administration is planning some big changes to how we measure the success or failure of schools and how we apportion federal money based on those assessments. It’s great that the administration is trying to undertake reforms, but if we want to make sure all children learn, we will need to overhaul the curriculum itself. Our current educational approach — and the testing that is driving it — is completely at odds with what scientists understand about how children develop during the elementary school years and has led to a curriculum that is strangling children and teachers alike.
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