Museum Resources

Presented by Steve Feld
Computer Graphics Instructor
John F. Kennedy High School
(718) 562 5500 ext 464
sjfeld@erols.com

The workshop will demonstrate and explore the ways in which students can use the rich resources, capacities, fluencies and tools of our digital multimedia world, in service of responding to, analyzing, creating and participating in the arts. Specifically, the John F. Kennedy High School student art research centered web sites, will be presented in detail.

Objectives
1. To demonstrate the ways in which the Internet can be used as a research tool to facilitate art learning.
2. To explore how students can tap digital technology capacities and web design for reflection on art products and processes.
3. To actively engage students in creating, participating and contributing to the arts through technology.

Vocabulary:
Science Inquiry - process by which theories from differing perspectives are compared and contrasted from which conclusions can be drawn.
Morf - an animation technique which presents a blending of two images.
Link - web page mechanism where a line of text or image will lead to another page or to another web site with a mouse click.

Key Questions
1. In what ways can technology help us to examine and reflect on the identity of Leonardo's Mona Lisa?
2. How can Internet research resources, particularly museums, be used to create web sites that examine art history?
3. How can students express their responses to works of art using the vehicle of web page design?

Learning Standards addressed
1. Students will actively engage in the process that constitute creation and performance in the arts.
2. Students will be knowledgeable about and make use of materials and resources available for participating in the arts.
3. Responding to and analyzing works of art.