World History
Maine teacher, Richard Byrne, has put together a site called ?Free technology for Teachers.? In March, he posted ?7 Good resources for Art Teachers and Students.? One of the sources he posted is called the Art Project and I love it. It?s powered by Google and ?features interior tours of seventeen world famous art museums.? Once in the site, I clicked on collections and found the Acropolis Museum, a great site for the Greece unit in World History.
You can also save each piece of artwork that you want into a collection you create. For example, if you find Buddhist artwork from three or four different museums, you can move the pieces into a collection of your own and share on twitter, email, Google+, etc. Here's one I created very quickly for Buddhist artwork.
It has great images that you can click on and zoom in and out for detail. The site might make for a great web quest. Some of the other museums in the collection include the Frick, the Denver Art Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
It's really cool the way the images are presented and the way you can zoom in and out on them.
- Artwork For One And All
The National Gallery of Art and other museums like the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam have begun uploading and offering their artwork to the public to view and and download as they like. In a statement in The NY Times, National Gallery spokesperson, Deborah...
- Google Launches Art Talk Series
Google's Art project, which I wrote about last year, allows you to create your own art collection using their library of museums. For example, you could create a gallery for anything you're studying, like Hinduism, or Greece. Tonight, according...
- Famous People Painting With Zoom-it
This is a cool painting called "Famous People Painting - Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante." If you go here, you can use your mouse and scroll over the people for their names. Kids love figuring who the people are. The other cool thing is the zoom...
- Medieval Art At The Met & Getty
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has an interesting exhibit on Medieval art. I developed a simple lesson, which you can see here, in which the kids examine the artwork, watch a short video explaining the exhibit, and create a five-slide...
- Can't Get To The Museum? Bring The Museum To Your Kids!
Many museums these days have excellent online presences. I particularly like the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which has a great section on their site that's a timeline of art history. You can search by time period, region of...
World History
Acropolis Museum in Greece
You can also save each piece of artwork that you want into a collection you create. For example, if you find Buddhist artwork from three or four different museums, you can move the pieces into a collection of your own and share on twitter, email, Google+, etc. Here's one I created very quickly for Buddhist artwork.
It has great images that you can click on and zoom in and out for detail. The site might make for a great web quest. Some of the other museums in the collection include the Frick, the Denver Art Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
It's really cool the way the images are presented and the way you can zoom in and out on them.
- Artwork For One And All
The National Gallery of Art and other museums like the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam have begun uploading and offering their artwork to the public to view and and download as they like. In a statement in The NY Times, National Gallery spokesperson, Deborah...
- Google Launches Art Talk Series
Google's Art project, which I wrote about last year, allows you to create your own art collection using their library of museums. For example, you could create a gallery for anything you're studying, like Hinduism, or Greece. Tonight, according...
- Famous People Painting With Zoom-it
This is a cool painting called "Famous People Painting - Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante." If you go here, you can use your mouse and scroll over the people for their names. Kids love figuring who the people are. The other cool thing is the zoom...
- Medieval Art At The Met & Getty
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has an interesting exhibit on Medieval art. I developed a simple lesson, which you can see here, in which the kids examine the artwork, watch a short video explaining the exhibit, and create a five-slide...
- Can't Get To The Museum? Bring The Museum To Your Kids!
Many museums these days have excellent online presences. I particularly like the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which has a great section on their site that's a timeline of art history. You can search by time period, region of...