Stephanie+Warren

1. Specific site: [] Eduweb company site: [] Site: interactive A. Pintura Art Detective; The Case of Grandpa’s Painting Inside this game of deduction, the student plays a detective who needs to find out who painted the painting found in Grandpa’s attic by a client. It takes the player through referencing Picasso, Millet, Titian, Raphael, Van Gogh and Gauguin paintings in hopes of discovering the unknown artist. This process builds the players skills in artists painting styles, chosen depiction of subject matter, color schemes, brushstrokes and general composition. The site is label 4th grade level and up, I see that grading appropriate with exceptions. This game could reinforce the concepts of composition, color theory, and artistic differences. The site was created by Eduweb, who develops digital learning activities for art, history and science areas K-12 to be applied not only in schools but also in a wide array of other educational organizations.
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2. Specific site: [] NGA Kids home site: [] Site: interactive Brief Description: The site was created in collaboration with the National Gallery of Art (NGA) by Al Jarnow of Protozone, Inc.. It allows the user to interact with paintings produced 17th-century Dutch artists by moving/adding people and animals; room décor to designing smaller parts of the images like the lace a woman is working on. All this takes place inside the rooms of a ‘dollhouse’ and out in the courtyard. Not only does this webpage have the student see aspects of Dutch artists such as Vermeer, Steen, ter Borch and Hooch, but it allows them to alter the composition of the paintings and to try different positions out, which may be used to reinforce classroom instruction in composition (applied practice) along with enhancing the subject of Dutch painters of the 17th century. The site states kids of all ages, however I cannot fathom sitting a high school senior down to maneuver through the program, especially without knowing their interests. I would put in down to the lower elementary levels K-3 and 4-5 depending upon interests and attitude.

1. Specific site: Celtic Art [] Celtic Network’s homepage: [] Celtic Network for not only does it give brief information on the art, but also the music, history, culture and land, so the students have the whole picture of a certain type of art. The site also gives suggested readings and references on certain subjects. The site would be for upper grades 9-12 and perhaps specific page referencing for middle school. I would use this site as a informational starting point in studying The Book of Kells and for other manuscript projects.
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2. Site: Color Matters [] In general, this site pertains the color theory, design and well a lot of different avenues including a blog about ‘When is a color racially offensive?’. The site references and cites their pages of information and even has a kids page []. I would reference the site for 9-12th and the kids site K-12th, with the lower levels being accessed by teacher. The site links to blogs and other sites which adds to the uncertain and lack of control about the content presented in the additional pages.

3. Site: Harlem Renaissance [] The Harlem Renaissance site offers a nice complimentary to a visual arts unit 5th – 12th grade levels. It does not so much go into the visual arts aspects of the Harlem Renaissance but does offer the historic, musical, philosophical and international background. It does have some off sites links that should be checked beforehand to insure content and connectivity.

4. Site: de Nevell Book Arts [] De Novell Book Arts is a site that is not being updated any longer, however while the site is still up, it does offer legit manuscript book craft and writing examples and tutorials for various age groups. Depending upon the student, I could see this applied down to the 2nd grade level for classroom instruction. As for the other, middle school guided study and for individuals, 9th though 12th, just in part to the fact that it is part of a webring: Midrealm WebRing and content does vary. This site may also be applied to science for it is a site that does offer ink making recipes that should be supervised by a responsible adult.

5. Site: The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis [] This site could also be in the interactive area but I have chosen to put it here for it is a good way to have students learn to research information in a ‘kids safe’ environment by interacting and then branching out and roaming into The Museum to find out about its exhibits. It is broken down into grouping Pre-school to 2nd, 3rd to 5th and 6 to 8th and all of the games I have opened, have opened in the museum’s site, including the LEGO Castle Adventure. The subject matter varies from art to history and science, including designing a space station.

6. Site: American Visionary Art Museum [] Guided middle school and individual high school levels. I have put this here in the information section because of the way the site is composed, which I would use as a lesson in itself for upper levels and/or web or graphic design units. The site is inovatived and offers compitions, one current to this assignment is the Kinetic Sculpture Race []. What does the site intell : //"Visionary art as defined for the purposes of the American Visionary Art Museum refers to art produced by self-taught individuals, usually without formal training, whose works arise from an innate personal vision that revels foremost in the creative act itself." //  Quote from American Visionary Art Museum’s website: [|http://www.avam.org/stuff/whatsvis.html]

7. Site: The British Museum [] The British Museum offers the ‘Explore’ extension to their site for students called ‘Young explorers’. This site accommodates a wide variety of age groups and should be explored by educator before offering up to student; however I can see applications up to 12th grade. The page has a ‘create’, ‘play’, ‘discover’ and ‘post’ sections. The ‘discover’ sections allows students to find information about pieces in museum’s collection, at 500+, according to countries and purpose of pieces. It compares modern activities to ancient ones, i.e. what is done today compared to ancient Greece.

8. Site: Artlex: Art Dictionary [] Artlex is a general collection of art terms offering examples and additional links, including offsite ones. As stated, this site is a collection and should be treated as similar sites such as Wikipedia and not all information is cited and some leaves room for debate. This site does however serve as a starting point for investigation and the links within the definition are helpful when uncertain about the meaning of the definition, but it can lead to ‘surfing’ the site as they are all contented. Due to the uncertainty of content that could be offered to students, I would put this site at middle school level, at least.

1. Art History: Resources on the Web [] This site is a creation of Dr. Witcombe, a professor of Art History at Sweet Briar College, Virginia. The site offers Art History references, Dr. Witcombe’s ‘Art History in just a minute’ videos and various links to images and other resources.
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2. Specific site: The Bonefolder: [] Home site: [] The site deals main with the book arts- creating, different forms, paper, etc. The Bonefolder is the e-journal I have used as referencing and provides reliable information that does not need to be weeded through because of bias or incorrect information on subject matter. It offers information on bookbinding, history of book arts, artist reviews and tips to name a few things.