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R. Byrne: "A featured resource on MoMA Learning is this video containing five tips for teaching with works of art. The video not only lists the tips, it contains examples of using these tips to teach art history and art appreciation lessons to students." Most of the great art museums and natural history museums of the world have websites with instructional materials of very high quality. It's worth some time to explore what they offer and figure out how to adapt their resources for your classes. One of the other excellent resources on MoMA Learning is this glossary of art terms. In many cases the definitions in the glossary contain links to multiple examples of each term. You might also like: Three Good Places to Find Art Lessons Art Babble - Videos and Lessons In Art History Read and Download 250+ Art Books from the Getty Museum 390 Free Online Art History Books Linkwithin 33 at 7:05 PM Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Labels: Art, Art History, art lessons, Free Technology For Teachers, MoMA, MoMA Learning Links to this post Create a Link Newer Post Older Post Home LinkWithin Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger... TW FreeTech Banner Dark Blue (1) freetech4teachers HelloTalk new seesaw-468-60 Midwest Teachers Institute Banner 468x60 isd-richard-byrnes-ad-2014 ettipad-boston15-CFP-200x200 prepfactory DE_WILKES_EDGE_AD_200x200.jpg Browse The Archives ► 2015 (707) ▼ 2014 (1243) ► December (115) ► November (86) ► October (112) ► September (116) ► August (102) ▼ July (114) ► Jul 31 (5) ► Jul 30 (4) ► Jul 29 (2) ► Jul 28 (4) ► Jul 27 (3) ► Jul 26 (2) ► Jul 25 (5) ► Jul 24 (5) ► Jul 23 (4) ► Jul 22 (5) ► Jul 21 (5) ► Jul 20 (2) ► Jul 19 (2)

Many art museum websites offer users the ability to choose favorites from their online exhibitions and create an online exhibition. The best also let you write captions and describe these individualized collections, and then allow you to post the link on a website or blog. This kind of activity provides lots of language-development opportunities for all levels of English Language Learners. so I thought it would be a good topic for a "The Best…" list. You can find links to all the sites on this list, and other "art collection" sites that didn't quite make the grade, on my website under Student Art Collections. Of course, students can also create collections of art work they've have created online. You can find those sites at The Best Art Websites For Learning English.

"The Google Art Project puts some of the most important art museums, and their collections, online with amazing features, including being able to create your own art collection. I've embedded a very short video from the site that shows what it can do - I can't do justice to it just with words. I'm adding it to The Best Ways For Students To Create Their Own Online Art Collections." Really neat for content-based or project-based learning.

"See the Arts Impact program in action as teachers participate in the summer institute and teach the arts in their classrooms. Hear comments from participating teachers and artist mentors." This is a very nice teacher training video if you are using drama and/or art in the classroom. Great ideas.

This is a great way to learn about art and is now connected to Khan Academy for additional practice and assessment or self-assessment. Created by two art history professors. Also pages to help you teach with Smarthistory.

This is a huge collection of images from the US National Gallery of Art. Nearly all can be downloaded and used for free. Register first and create your own online collection or "lightbox." A magnifying glass icon allows you to enlarge and get more information about the artist, or search for related images. Not just for art classes, the collection would be great for digital story-telling projects and writing prompts.

"Wikipaintings is a great resource not only for Art teachers for all other teachers looking for some highly quality images of public domain artworks. Wikipainings is a project that aims to create well-structured online repository of fine art. The artwork featured in this platform includes both classical and contemporary art." Talking about and then writing about images is a great way to get the creative juices flowing produce better quality writing from your students.

Teaching culture in the context of art. Middle school students integrate curriculum with other subjects.

This archive site has recorded talks about art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. You can subscribe via iTunes. Would be very good in a listening/discussion class, as the paintings are quite moving, e.g., Marc Chagall's "I and the Village."

This is a magic place where students can add to a drawing and write about it. One additional activity might be to explore some of the cultural assumptions expressed in the drawings. You will probably need Google Chrome to use all the parts of this wonderful creative site. See also http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Art%2C+Craft+%26+Design for similar creative art sites. Thanks to Martin Burrett at Diigo in Education.

"The Council of the Great City Schools' parent roadmaps in English language arts/literacy provide guidance to parents about what their children will be learning and how they can support that learning in grades K-8. These parent roadmaps for each grade level also provide three-year snapshots showing how selected standards progress from year to year so that students will be college and career ready upon their graduation from high school." These roadmaps should be very useful for teachers as well as parents. Also available at the site in Spanish. Roadmaps are for math and language arts, K-12.

For projects and presentations. These are not copyright-free, but a great educational resource.

This blog has a series of lessons using different media to help kids experiment with painting. Have students write about their work and the process afterwards. Appropriate for K-5, but lessons are adaptable to adults, who also have fun making art.

Argues that art is not a luxury, but a crucial part of the scientific processes that lead to innovation and invention. Send this article to you school board and congresspersons.

"A project based learning method is a comprehensive approach to instruction. Your students participate in projects and practice an interdisciplinary array of skills from math, language arts, fine arts, geography, science, and technology. .... "To help you start using PBL, we've created age-appropriate, customizable project checklists for written reports, multimedia projects, oral presentations, and science projects. The use of these checklists keeps students on track and allows them to take responsibility for their own learning through peer- and self-evaluation. " This site contains numerous rubric starter templates for each of the grades and for a wide-variety of topics. A way to get started.

A great resource for content- and project-based learning for your classroom. Many museums have outstanding lesson plans that engage students in all the language skills as they use the world-class art collections.

Eventually, schools and colleges are probably going to fall in step with the trend toward digital portfolios as a way to assess applicants. Schools of art, music, and writing are already using them. Give your students a chance to learn this valuable skil.

"The online royalty free public domain clip art" The search engine works pretty well. A good place for adding illustrations to student projects.

Online journal of literature and the arts, semi-annually.

Online journal of the arts, semi-annually.

"Finding images in the Museum of New Zealand's gallery isn't the most intuitive process. You can enter a keyword to search, but if you're too specific you might not find what you're looking for. For example, enter "fish" and scroll through the results rather than entering "salmon" or "trout" to find images of fish. The other way to search is to open the advanced search settings in which you can choose a collection to browse through." Images at the Gallery are labelled to easily find creative commons or other licensing. T/H to R Byrne