1.+Introduction

= Hello my fellow educators! =

My Name is **Emily Metz** and I am training to be a **Visual Arts and English** teacher within a High School setting. My aim is to encourage teachers and students to explore my pages, in particular the **student place** which has three student work examples. Another one of my aims is to help people learn more about recycling, and how to be creative with objects most people would consider rubbish.



I have chosen to base my wiki on **Visual Art** because I really love the subject and have found some interesting resources that could be used as part of my wiki. My aim for this wiki site is to create an interactive and creative site about **recyclable art.** There is also an interesting article on **e-waste** which sits well with the recyclable art theme and will be one of the links I use in this wiki so that both teachers and students can learn more about computer wastage and recycling in general. Teachers (or anyone else for that matter) who view this wiki site will notice the three student samples located in the **student place**, these activities are a Bubbl.us brainstorming activity, a survey on Survey Monkey and a Blogster page. I have not previously worked with any of these forms of software before this year, but have found them to be quite helpful. I hope that by viewing my site other teachers will be inspired to use more of the free online software available, I certainly had no idea how much was out there! **NOTE:** This Wiki is primarily designed for junior high school art classes, (grades 8 - 10). However it could also be beneficial for senior Visual Arts classes.