>From my limited experience, I feel that they do not. It's not that the institutions don't want to, they just don't let faculty know the resource is available.
-----Original Message----- From: Susan Patterson [mailto:spat...@slam.org] Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 5:05 PM To: mc...@listserv.mcn.edu Subject: Re: teaching and technology Do institutions with resources available online offer professors/teachers instruction on how to use the tools to best advantage? Susan Patterson The Saint Louis Art Museum spat...@slam.org ----- Original Message ----- From: Leslie Johnston <johns...@gsd.harvard.edu> To: <mc...@listserv.mcn.edu> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 3:30 PM Subject: Re: teaching and technology > When I was working with both the Cantor Arts Center and the art history > faculty at Stanford I undertook a needs analysis where faculty members > claimed that they wanted/needed/would use the museum's collection resources > if made available on the web. After the public database went live, as did > some topical guides, I can verify that there was no integration of the > resources into the curriculum, at least during the first year that the > material was live and I was still at Stanford. The only way in which > museum collections and the associated information showed up in a course was > as a slide or the digital surrogate of same in the electronic reserves for > the course. > > I find it interesting that, now that I am at the Harvard Design School and > working on creating digital resources based on visual resource and archival > collections the faculty seem more willing to both ask that certain topical > resources be created for their courses and to use the more general > resources that we have live. I don't know whether it's some difference > between teaching art history and teaching architecture/landscape > architecture, or if its a perception of the usefulness of image and > archival collections over museum collections. > > Thoughts? > > Leslie > > At 01:08 PM 4/26/00 -0700, you wrote: > >Thanks Chuck. This would be interesting. However one scary thought occurs > >to me; who IS using the information and resources we're working so hard to > >provide. The telecollaboration I'm helping out with does not use museum > >content (even my own museum's), but does use museum methods and languages. > >So I opted to use museum processes rather than museum things. When I think > >about it, the other faculty I know (mostly digtial media/art types) also > >do not use museum content in their teaching. > > > >I don't mean to create a picture of empty "content" lots with no visitors > >- because I know that instructors, faculty, teachers, and students do use > >our sites, but I'm wondering about the nature of that use right now. Is it > >limited to individual research (especially in college level education)? Or > >is museum content (or processes) being integrated more substantially into > >any curriculae or assignments? Does anyone on this list have any evidence > >(and better yet, names :) ? > > > >Rick Rinehart > > > > > >>Rick, > >>A session on pedagogies involving art and technologies, or for that matter, > >>any academic specialization involving technologies that use museum and/or > >>archival data in interesting or novel ways would certainly interest me. I > >>tried to pull together a session last year on visual anthropology and fell > >>flat on my face, but I still think it would be interesting to go to a > >>session made up of (one or more of) our "audience(s)" and find out what they > >>actually DO with the information we provide. > >>Chuck > >> > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: Richard Rinehart [mailto:rineh...@uclink4.berkeley.edu] > >>Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 4:33 PM > >>To: mc...@listserv.mcn.edu > >>Subject: Re: Wired Rick > >> > >> > >>Thanks; I'm blushing. I never thought of this as subject for a > >>session! Something about pedagogies involving art and technologies? > >>(I have thought of doing this again, but using our museum > >>collections). Hm. I do know some other art/digital faculty I could > >>invite - but then again I invited them last time and they failed to > >>show :( Anyway, it turns out that I'm going to teach digital media at > >>UC Berkeley this summer in the Art dept. and maybe ongoing, just part > >>time, in addition to the museum, so this project really fired up some > >>energy! Thanks for forwarding it :) > >>Rick > >> > >> > >> > >> >MCN Board Member and SIG liason Richard Rinehart makes Wired > >> News *again*. > >> > Really Cool! And do I detect here a great presentation for Las > >> Vegas...? > >> > > >> >Congratulations! > >> > > >> >----------------------------------------- > >> >When Art Imitates Art > >> >by Terence Chea > >> > > >> >WIRED NEWS 3:00 a.m. Apr. 25, 2000 PDT > >> > > >> >BERKELEY, California -- Art students at two California universities are > >> >learning that art takes on a life of its own when it's hung on the virtual > >> >gallery walls of the Internet. > >> > > >> >Students at the University of California at Berkeley and Sonoma State > >> >University have teamed up for the online art exhibit CU: A > >> >Tele-collaborative Art Inquiry. > >> > > >> >Berkeley students are displaying their work on the Internet while Sonoma > >> >State students evaluate and criticize its digital representations on the > >> >Internet. The originals are not digital. > >> > > >> >"We are using the Net as our medium instead of print," said Richard > >> >Rinehart, an instructor of art and technology at Sonoma State. "The > >> idea is > >> >that they get them to interpret their own work through another medium." > >> > > >> >CU was developed by Rinehart, Kevin Radley, an instructor of new genres in > >> >the UC Berkeley art department, and Tony Le, a Berkeley student who serves > >> >as the project's technical manager... > >> > > >> > > >> > <http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,35810,00.html> > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> >Amalyah Keshet > >> >Head of Visual Resources, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem > >> >Board of Directors, the Museum Computer Network > >> >Chair, MCN Intellectual Property Special Interest Group > >> >akes...@imj.org.il > >> >akes...@netvision.net.il > >> > >> > >> > >>Richard Rinehart > >>---------------- > >>Digital Media Director > >>Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive > >>@ University of California > >>www.bampfa.berkeley.edu > >>---------------- > >>& Board of Directors > >>Museum Computer Network > >>www.mcn.edu > > > > > > > >Richard Rinehart > >---------------- > >Digital Media Director > >Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive > >@ University of California > >www.bampfa.berkeley.edu > >---------------- > >& Board of Directors > >Museum Computer Network > >www.mcn.edu > > ------------ > Leslie Johnston > Head of Instructional Technology > Graduate School of Design, Harvard University > johns...@gsd.harvard.edu > >
