This site is a resource for art teachers and student teachers. It is also a site that can be used in middle and highschool classrooms. The activities are designed to guide students to carefully selected Web sites.
Type of Material:
Twelve different online simulations that ask the students to performe online research, reflect, build exhibits, critique web sites using art terms, and more. Worksheets accompany each lesson. The activities also involve visiting web sites. This web site can be used in tandem with Glencoe Publisher's art textbooks.
Technical Requirements:
Acrobat Reader is needed to view and printing out the worksheet that accompanies each activity. RealPlayer is required for some links (e.g. from Cultural Treasures of the World at http://www.glencoe.com/sec/art/student/studio/activities/treas.htm to http://www.glencoe.com/sec/art/cgi-bin/splitwindow.cgi?top=http://glencoe.com/sec/art/top.html&link=http://www.rootsworld.com/rw/feature/freereed.html Some links lead to sites that require JavaScript to be enabled from Pictures Worth a Thousand Words at: http://www.glencoe.com/sec/art/student/studio/activities/pict.htm there is a link to Lascaux Caves that require JavaScript to be enabled.
Identify Major Learning Goals:
Studio Cyberspace is a selection of twelve outcome-based activities designed to motivate students to explore art resources in cyberspace.
Target Student Population:
The target audience for this site would be middle and hichschool students. Studio Cyberspace activities are designed so that students can follow directions independently. Each activity includes a printable worksheet with clear instructions. A Teacher Page also accompanies each activity, prividing preservice and inservice teachers with learning objectives,
teaching strategies, and classroom ideas.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
The only requirement is that the user has basic familiarity with browsing the internet. Reading level of the studet assignments is not high, so that will not be a big obstacle to success in completing these activities. Background in basic art elements and design principles will enhance the student experience.
Content Quality
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Strengths:
The site offers twelve different interactive activities that are aligned with the National Standards of Arts Education. Student teachers can see, test, and review age-appropriate art lessons that are relevant to the real-world and use technology. Actual research and higher level thinking skills are required. There is nothing better than having a future teacher actually try a lesson before he or she delivers it. These lessons give student teachers a chance to complete the task themselves, field test them in an actual classroom setting, and get ideas for their own lessons. the models presented here can be used in many ways.
Concerns:
On the teacher page, http://www.glencoe.com/sec/art/teacher/teach_page/t_page.htm#at , it says "In the first site, ther will take a virtual tour through downtown Chicago, Illinois, visiting famous early skyscrapers and other important buildings." However, if the user takes the "Student Activity" link on the same page, and goes to the bottom of the linked page http://www.glencoe.com/sec/art/student/studio/activities/arch.htm and clicks on "Historical Buildings" he or she will not get a virtual tour through Chicago.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
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Strengths:
Clear and specific outcomes and objectives for teachers and students who use the site are provided. Suggestions for classroom follow-up are included. The activities are aligned with several state and national standards which makes this a very useful teaching tool for future teachers. This site has The National Standards for Art Education and a listing of chapters from the different resources that meet each of the National Standards (Correlation by Standards is presented: e.g.; at http://www.glencoe.com/sec/art/teach/nat_stand/intro.htm).
Concerns:
Educators who use this site should be aware that thre are manyways to learn art. Creating end products is only part of the process. The use of worksheets in the twelve activities at this site is for reference and guidence as aesthetic valuing and historical cultural contexts are addressed. the worksheets at this site were not designed to replace any art production,
but to supplement the research and academic aspects involved in art education development.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
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Strengths:
The number of interactive activity choices makes this site wirth revisiting. Overviews, objectives, and all sorts of prompts contribute to a very user friendlysite. Easy for a beginner to use. Tasks are especially easy to complete, but can become more complex if desired. They are fun, too. Students and teachers having a background in some basic art concepts can take the activities to a higher level. They can easily incorporate concepts being learned in art classes with the tasks presented.
Concerns:
The navigation could be fore functional. For example, from the page at http://wwwlglencoe.com/sec/art/student/studio/activities/expl.htm clicking on "School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston" or "California State Summer School for the Arts" will take you out of the www.glencoe.com site and into ones owned by those schools. Since the Glencoe site does not have new windows opening to those links, it is not easy to get back to the Glencoe site if the user chooses several different paths while in those school sites.
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