I LOVE Artsonia! And so do my students, their parents,
grandparents, aunts and uncles! I teach at a small school (350
students) and I started posting work last February. My school
got about $400 last year. You get to pick how you want the
money (Artsonia giftcard, Blick giftcard, or a check). I just
requested the check that will be sent to my school and the
financial person at my school set up a special account for the
money so that it can only be spent by me for the art program.

I went through the process of sending home the permission slip
that Artsonia has available on their website and only posted
work of the students whose slips came back signed. This way I
cannot get into trouble for posting their work and I got a lot
of the parents registered in their students' fan clubs. I
think that the permission slip is a great way to go for 2
reasons: 1. It negates the possibility of posting work of kids
whose parents don't want you to. and 2. It builds up your fan
clubs which then leads to more parents buying stuff which
raises money for your program. My principal really likes that
this helps extend my budget for supplies and he and I have both
gotten positive feedback from many families.

Good luck!

On 11/06/09, Marge wrote:
> Has anyone had any success with artsonia.com?
>
> I brought the idea of an "online student museum" to my
> principal and he loved the idea. He just wanted me to run
> it by administration first. I tried that but no one would
> ever get back to me. I'm a small fish in a big district. My
> principal told me to start with one grade and we would see
> how it goes. He seemed real worried about me getting into
> trouble for putting the student work online.
>
> Is this as big of a deal as he is making it?
>
> I also did not really mention the fundraising part to him.
> I didn't really go into this with the idea of selling much.
> More to promote the art my kids make. Do most school
> districts have rules or procedures for fundraising? Does
> artsonia give the check/gift card to you or your school?

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