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educators4art.blogspot.com exists to provide educational resources for art and media teachers working in a Canadian, specifically Quebec, High School. The site offers a number of sample, completed, lesson plans, as well as, some inspiration lesson plan ideas or thought provoking activities. The site also has a number of post categories, like "Real Life Art" which critically explores how art influences our everyday life. There is also the "spotlight" section that features a website, resource or educational tool and aside from the lesson plans, the site also offers some ideas for projects that use and integrate technology. As a side note, each of the lesson plans and posts has a comments section where I encourage educators to voice their opinions on the lessons or any comments on how well they were implemented (or not) in the classroom. Of course, any rude or hateful comments will be deleted.

Thursday, 29 November 2012

Lesson Plan: Virtual Museum Tour


60 minute lesson
Features of day two:
·         Conducted in the computer lab
·         Individual assignment conducted online using Google Art Project
·         Objective is to develop autonomy in their exploration and critique of artistic spaces (i.e. museums) as well as re-affirm their knowledge of art vocabulary and develop critical thinking in an arts context
·         Materials required: Computers for each student (or in pairs if resources are limited) with internet access
·         Materials required for homework: Computer with internet to complete any unfinished work and to upload their critiques on the class’ blog

60 minute work period to work on their assignment
·         Using their Google Account they log into Google Art Project (http://www.googleartproject.com/)
·         Students will find their chosen artist’s collection and view the work in both
o    “Museum view”: to analyze their placement within the museum in terms of sub-collections or coloration etc.
o    “Slideshow view”: to compare the works individually and as a part of the artists’ whole collection of works
·         From this exploration Students will prepare a critique of one work and its specific elements as well as a critique of the artists’ style, situating the selected work within a larger context (meaning the entire body of work, relevant art movement[s] of the time, the artist’s lifetime etc.)
·         The individual critiques will then be uploaded to a blog (created by the teacher on Blogger) to feature the class’ “gallery” of critiques in a collaborative online forum to compare,  contrast, and comment upon their peers’ critiques
HOMEWORK: Complete any unfinished work and upload their critiques on the class blog

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