Interactive Tours
Scenario: I am the ID for a high school in California and a history teacher wants to be able to have her students take a tour of two museums in New York. She wants her students to be able to interact with the museum’s curators, as well as see the works on display. She also wants her students to participate in a group critique of one or two works of art that she selects. I am going to suggest technologies for the teacher to use to provide the best learning experience for her students.
For this posting I will only use one museum for my examples, since the teacher will only have to duplicate the efforts for the other museum.
Since providing travel for the students to New York is not in the budget, I will have to consider other means to meet the needs of the history teacher. The school has excellent Wi-Fi capabilities, and the teacher is able to use a computer or other device with the projector that is permanently mounted to the ceiling in each classroom. Students also have access to iPads and mobile devices.
Questions for Analysis of the Project
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1. How comfortable is she in using the technology that exists in the classroom?
2. Is the Wi-Fi connection stable?
3. How comfortable are the students using their mobile devices or classroom computers/iPads for research?
4. Is Google Earth available on the computers in the classroom, or in the computer lab?
5. Will she be making her own lesson plans using my suggestions for meeting her lesson’s requirements?
6. Do all the students have the necessary clearances to use the school computers?
7. Is there enough time to contact curators of current exhibits or of those soon to begin, to set up either a Face Time meeting, or a Google hangout, or a webinar?
8. Is the she willing to compromise if the curators are unable to have a live meeting during the class?
9. Does the teacher know if the museums have systems for virtual classrooms in place? Has she contacted the museums to discuss her ideas? If so, will she share her contact information?
10. When viewing art the teacher and the students might be exposed to work that contains nudes, culturally diverse works, works that might be of a distressing nature depicting the brutality of life. Has the teacher cleared this with the school, or school board before her idea is developed more?
11. Are there other permissions students might need before participating in this unit, or lesson?
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The following is a video that explains the Google Cultural Institute and using Google Earth features.
There are more ways to use Google to create museums after doing research. The following video shows what one school teacher is presenting, and having her students also create.
The next video shows how one teacher used Power Point to create her own museum, and she lets her students create their own museums for presentations. This video is less than 10 minutes long. The second part is another 12 minutes, but would be worth watching to be able to duplicate this process.
There are several more videos on YouTube to help teachers and students to make museum presentations and it is only limited by their creativity.
The following is my Camtasia recording example of using Google Earth street view to explore The Metropolitan Museum of Art while sitting in the comfort of my home.
There are also apps for the iPad for exploring current exhibits.
For example right now there is a showing at The Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York that goes through February 1, 2015 titled El
Greco in New York (Met Museum.org, 2014). The teacher could
use the information from the iPad app (where I located the
information about the exhibit) as a starting place and then conduct
an internet search (such as I just did) to get more information that
she would be able to share with her students who might not have
access to the Apple App.
Greco in New York (Met Museum.org, 2014). The teacher could
use the information from the iPad app (where I located the
information about the exhibit) as a starting place and then conduct
an internet search (such as I just did) to get more information that
she would be able to share with her students who might not have
access to the Apple App.
I have learned from tutoring World History that El Greco is mentioned in text books for his influence on modern art, but students are not really given enough time to explore how the time of his life led to the style and subjects of his work. I learned more about him during a Spanish class taught by a man who studied at the University of Madrid. El Greco died 400 years ago, and this exhibit is a celebration of his great art that highly influenced modern painting (MetMuseum.org, 2014).
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a wonderful website with several resources for teachers. The first one is called Learn For Educators and you can follow the link that opens in a new window. On the learn for educators time line page there is a wealth of information including lesson plans. There is a series of pictures with links, and by following the links there is more information. New York City has so many great museums that it would take months to view them all.
If teachers will run Google searches for the museums they want to visit they can find good online resources and possibly apps for their mobile devices. The Guggenheim museum has a great online site.
There are videos on the site that are very educational, and it is all free. Here is the video link. The 82nd and 5th Museum's home page is incredible, so before you leave this blog you should take a few minutes and click on the link to it, so you can give your eyes a feast of all the incredible art. I am sure that teachers can broaden their students' appreciation for art in history by visiting some of these museums right from the classroom.
References
Google Cultural Institute. (2013). [Video] Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzMXbvBsALo
http://www.guggenheim.org/new-yorkhttp://www.guggenheim.org/video
Jenkins, R. (2012) Virtual Museum. Building A Room. Part 1. [Video] Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWeiYxkicHM
Jenkins, R. (2012) Virtual Museum. Part 2. [Video] Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl6gq87TiYc
Lee, D. (2014). Technology Integration: Virtual Museums with Google Slides Presentations. [Video] Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GaguGpvFAQ
Metropolitan Museum of Art. (2014). [Website]. Retrieved from http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/museum-departments
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