Technology, Entertainment, Design conference talks

podcast: feed://smarthistory.org/podcast-xml-for-all-museums "This site is being developed ... as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the static Western art history textbook. We are looking for contributors-especially for canonical non-Western material and other survey topics we have not yet covered."

Free audiobooks - public domain works, read by all sorts of people. There's a pretty wide selection of (mostly older) books that are out of copyright, and you can always volunteer to work on adding eligible books that aren't yet available.

discusses adding outside research components

makes nice use of a variety of activities

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"Sandbox Studios works with museums to plan, create, manage and assess education programs and technology projects. With over thirty years' combined experience as museum professionals and independent consultants, Sandbox Studios staff have created everything from classroom materials to Web portals encompassing multi-museum collections. Sandbox Studios creatively applies tested technologies and innovative educational strategies to bring museum collections and people together." Look at the 'projects' page.

"In one elementary school lesson, Ponton shows students a professional artist's drawing and then uses DrawPlus to break the image down into its basic shapes. Students are told to put those shapes back together, and in the process, they begin learning how basic shapes can be used to create more complicated images."

Harold Olejarz has a number of pertinent articles on integrating technology into the classroom, particularly for art education. This one teaches how to create a Web-based portfolio of student work.

The mission of Art Education 2.0 is to support a growing global community of art educators exploring uses of new and emerging technology in the classroom by promoting: * professional discourse * best art teaching practices * innovative uses of technology in the art classroom and studio * the production and study of visual culture * collaboration and joint creative work * curricular projects and student art exchanges * the sharing of information, ideas and experiences * other activities deemed important by its members.