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Art Education Technology Methods

syllabus (draft)

This class examines multiple aspects of classroom technology in arts education. The course combines hands-on computer techniques, critical analysis of digital art, and practical experience with curriculum design.

• Technology and teachers - hands-on projects using Power Point and PhotoShop
• The Internet and Art Education - online research of art education Web sites
• New Media and Web-artists - critical analysis of digital artistsÕ work
• The final project is curriculum recommendation, rationale, standards addressed, and lesson plan for an art education project that fully integrates technology.

Evaluation

• Team PhotoShop project 10%
• Team PowerPoint project - Critical report on web artists 20%
• Art/Technology curriculum recommendations with lesson plan 40%
• Class Participation 15%
• Email assignments 15%

Course Outline

First class: you and your learning community

• Introductions
• Preview of individual and team projects
• Textbooks:
  • New Technologies in Art Education Diane C. Gregory, editor
  • Pause & Effect by Mark Stephen Meadows
• Details of online class communications

Week 2: Classroom Technology and the Arts

• Readings from New Technologies in Art Education
• Case studies and personal war stories.
• Looking to the Future: Arts & Technology Advancing Education Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) http://www.arts.state.tx.us/info/advance/intro.htm

Week 3 Technology and art curriculum resources

• Kennedy Center ArtsEdge
  http://www.ed.gov/Technology/Futures/stoner.html
• Ongoing research in art and technology reading
  Art and Technology integration: Activity theory and after school multimedia education http://www.u.arizona.edu/~bettsj/AACE99.html J. David Betts, Ph.D., College of Education, University of Arizona

Week 4: Art museumsÕ educational offerings

• Readings from New Technologies in Art Education.
• Email assignment: Critique one an online offering by an art museum that you consider effective for art education.

Week 5: Web artists search

• Pause and Effect chapters 1 and 2
• Email assignment: Share the work of one web artist with the class addressing the following points: 1) brief biography of artist, 2) why you chose this work, and, 3) importance of this example for art education.

Week 6: Graphics for teachers

• Pause and Effect chapter 3
• Search engines and images
• Graphics tools in classrooms Photoshop basics

Week 7: Photoshop skills in action

Student teams will create a digital collage of several Web artistsÕ images using Photoshop

Week 8: PowerPoint as a presentation tool

• Slide design
• Presentation skills

Week 9: PowerPoint as a Web design tool

• Outline and slide sorter functions as hypertext and navigation simulation
• Student teams will create a Web art and Web artists educational PowerPoint "hypertext"

Week 10: Curriculum project

Planning & scheduling for final project

Week 11: Interactivity and aesthetics

• Pause & Effect chapter 4
• Video games and art education

Week 12: That old thing?

Technology evolution and art education

Week 13 - Week 15: Final presentations

Recommended Reading: Stein, Gertrude. Composition as Explanation http://www.centerforbookculture.org/context/no8/stein.html

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