A high school history teacher, located on the west coast of the United States, wants to showcase to her students new exhibits being held at two prominent New York City museums. The teacher wants her students to take a "tour" of the museums and be able to interact with the museum curators, as well as see the art work on display. Afterward, the teacher would like to choose two pieces of artwork from each exhibit and have the students participate in a group critique of the individual work of art. As a novice of distance learning and distance learning technologies, the teacher turned to the school district’s instructional designer for assistance. In the role of the instructional designer, what distance learning technologies would you suggest the teacher use to provide the best learning experience for her students?
Solution Approach and Tools
In the Scenario 2 Interactive Art Museum Tour solution challenge there are three critical requirements that I used as the foundation for my research and identification of two solutions. The key three requirements that were mentioned in this scenario are:
- Ability for students to see and tour art exhibits over the web
- Ability for students to Interact with museum curators
- Ability for a group critique of two pieces of artwork
Before you select a technology platform and resource you need to identify the requirements and determine the learning outcomes. (Simonson, M., Smaldino, S., Albright, M., & Zvacek, S., 2012) With these important concepts in mind, I researched and discovered two very exciting innovative technology tools that meet the requirements outlined above and will also enable the teacher to achieve their desired learning outcomes. The two tools I like to share with you as a solution are the Google Art Project and Google Hangout.
The Google Art Project, is technology tool that solves the requirement of interactive web access to over 100 museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery in DC and museums across the world. (GoogleArtProject, 2012). Many schools and teachers have had a great experiences using this tool and FAQ’s posted on the site share the success stories. This online resource enables students from any location connected to the Internet interactively explore exhibits and art from collections from around the world. Teachers can create their own “virtual” gallery of artwork and share it with their students. Students have the ability to view the art and have a robust set of activities that connected to the specific art pieces and to modern real-world situations. (How to use GoogleArtProject, 2012) As mentioned in our course text it is imperative that “instructors take the time to plan and organize the learning experience when in engaged in teaching at a distance.” (Simonson, et al., 2012). The Google Art Project does just that. This resource organizes the art work by artist, collection and exhibit, connects learners and instructors and provides the ability to share feedback using social media tools such as twitter, facebook and Google+.
Embedded in the Google Art Project is a menu of icons that students can use to share comments, posts and exchange information through Google+, twitter, facebook and other social media tools. In the Google Art Project the first sharing tool found under Google+ and is called Google hangouts. A Google hangout provides the ability for a teacher to connect with her students, chat face to face and more importantly a platform to host a virtual meeting. (GoogleHangouts, 2011) The teacher could schedule and invite a museum curator to a Google hangout and students could exchange and communicate with them. Additionally the Google hangout online tool allows participants to post an image/video and comments. This platform would work seamlessly as an interactive approach to post two pieces of art and students to provide a group critique. The Google hangout has a limit of 9 per live session which the teacher could group their students. Another option if the teacher desired one large group critique is to utilize the standard link from Google Art Project to a FaceBook page for students to make comments a work of art. Both options would work well and provide flexibility to meet the overarching requirements and are free to the student and instructor.
School Testimonials
In Conclusion
The Google Art Project is a fantastic platform to bring art to life and connect to authentic learning opportunities and exchange of information for students of all ages.
School Testimonials
In Conclusion
The Google Art Project is a fantastic platform to bring art to life and connect to authentic learning opportunities and exchange of information for students of all ages.
-Michelle Cosner
Resources
Google Art Project by Google. (n.d.) Retrieved from www.GoogleArtProject.com
Art Project how to use this site. (April, 2012) Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVpqTd2ndYY&feature=player_embedded
How to use Google Hangout Session. (July 2011) Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5kdr7N6nPg
Simonson, M., Smaldino, S., Albright, M., & Zvacek, S. (2012). Teaching and learning at a distance:
Foundations of distance education (5th ed.) Boston, MA: Pearson
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