ARTstor is pleased to announce that the Cleveland Museum of
Art, The
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Whitney Museum of American Art,
and the
Littleton Historical Museum, Littleton, CO have all been
selected for
the ARTstor Museum Education Project. As part of the project,
these
four museums will explore the integration of ARTstor into an
already
existing education program or design a new project that makes
use of
ARTstor with museum audiences, museum staff, or volunteers. In
collaboration with ARTstor staff, an evaluation of all four
projects
will take place during the spring of 2005, and a final report
will be
published during the summer of 2005 to benefit the entire
museum
education community and add to the understanding of using
digital
resources for teaching and learning.
The Cleveland Museum of Art will include ARTstor images in
their
distance learning program for K-12 schools, in addition to or
in place
of images that are currently used. The project will demonstrate
how
others may use ARTstor images in similar distance and online
learning
contexts, and at the same time help identify ARTstor strengths
when
applied to existing museum lesson concepts and plans.
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts will use ARTstor to develop
docent
training presentations that will be compared with existing
training
materials currently in use for creating digital presentations.
The
development of ARTstor presentations will be documented and
evaluated,
focusing on the availability and quality of images, ease of use
of the
presentation tools, and the delivery of the final presentation
when
compared with existing digital presentations at the Institute.
.
The Whitney Museum of American Art's Education Department will
collaborate with teachers at Trinity School in Manhattan using
selected
images from
ARTstor and the Whitney's collection to develop a thematic unit
for
seventh grade students based on the theme of American industry.
A team
of social studies/American history and art history teachers
will be
trained to implement the unit for the entire seventh grade
(four
classes) at Trinity School.
Littleton Historical Museum (Littleton, Colorado) will conduct
research
into using ARTstor for K-6 educational programs in a history
museum
setting. The goal of this project is to search the ARTstor
collection
using the Colorado Model Content Standards and focusing on
Colorado and
Western U.S. history. The expected outcomes will be the use of
ARTstor
as part of a multidisciplinary approach to education focusing
on the
history of a specific geographic region in the U.S. and
ARTstor's value
in the history museum setting, as well as the development of
search
methods that can be used by other historical museum educators.
More information regarding ARTstor may be found on ARTstor's
Web site,
http://www.artstor.org. For more information about the 2005
ARTstor
Museum Education Program, contact Nancy Allen, Director of
Museum
Relations, email [email protected] or phone 212 500-2422.
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