678 Free Art History Books
A couple of weeks ago I shared 60,000+ images of art and artifacts to download. Those images may be useful in art history lessons. What could also be helpful in creating art history lessons is The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s library of 678 art history books online. All of the books can be read online or […]
More “Color Our Collections” Collections
Back in December I shared the Smithsonian Learning Lab’s Color Our Collections collection. That’s a collection of coloring pages based on portraits in the National Portrait Gallery. You can download those coloring pages for free. This morning through an Open Culture post I learned there are nearly 100 more museums and libraries that have similar […]
Great Art Explained
Despite the efforts of my friend Maggie, I don’t always understand what makes one work of art great and a similar-looking one fit for display in a Hilton Garden Inn. I thought about that last weekend when I came across a YouTube channel called Great Art Explained. The channel seems to have been made for […]
A Google Maps and Earth Activity for Art Classes
When I conduct workshops on Google Maps and Google Earth I always point out that the uses for those tools extend beyond the realm of geography and history. One example of using Google Maps and Earth outside of the typical geography setting is using Google Maps and Earth to have students place art and artists on an interactive […]
A New Smithsonian Learning Lab Tool for History and Art Teachers
This week the Smithsonian Learning Lab released a new tool that could be very helpful to history and art teachers. The tool is simply called Canvas (no connection to the LMS of the same name). Smithsonian Learning Lab’s Canvas tool lets you build colllections of Smithsonian digitized artifacts and arrange the display of those artifacts […]
How to Share Google Arts & Culture Experiences in Google Classroom
Last week Google Arts & Culture published a great online exhibit titled Walk the Great Wall. It’s a fantastic colleciton of Street View imagery and multimedia stories about the Great Wall of China. As I wrote last week, Walk the Great Wall includes detailed imagery of the bricks of the wall, short lessons about the […]
A Tour of Google Arts and Culture for Teachers
Last week Google introduced Learn With Google Arts and Culture. Learn With Google Arts and Culture is a collection of lesson plans, Street View imagery, and virtual tours based around the content found in Google Arts and Culture. Other than the collection of lesson plans, there isn’t anything in Learn With Google Arts and Culture […]
Explore the Royal Academy of Arts in Google’s Arts & Culture Apps
Google’s Arts & Culture site and corresponding apps make it possible for students of all ages to virtually explore thousands of fascinating landmarks and works of art. This morning Google announced a new collection with the Arts & Culture site. That collection features the Royal Academy of Arts. The highlight of the Royal Academy of […]
Gallery AR – Augmented Reality Art on Your Walls
Gallery AR is a free iPad app and free iPhone app that anyone can use to view classic works of art in augmented reality. The app features art work that was digitized by The Art Institute of Chicago. Gallery AR digitally displays works of art on your walls when you point your phone or iPad […]
Nearly 900 Free Art History Books – And an Art Lesson
Around this time five years ago I discovered that the Metropolitan Museum of Art hosts free online art history texts. A recent Tweet from Open Culture reminded me of that collection. Today, I revisited that collection and discovered that it has expanded to 569 volumes. All of the books can be read online or downloaded […]
A Google Maps and Earth Activity for Art Classes
When I conduct workshops on Google Maps and Google Earth I always point out that the uses for those tools extend beyond the realm of geography and history. One example of using Google Maps and Earth outside of the typical geography setting is using Google Maps and Earth to have students place art and artists on an interactive […]
Monet Was Here – Take a Google Earth Tour of Monet’s Works
Monet Was Here is a new exhibit on Google Arts & Culture. The exhibit coincides with the opening of a new Monet exhibit at the National Gallery London. The Monet Was Here online exhibit features works that are on display at National Gallery London and other museums around the world. Monet Was Here includes a […]
X Degrees of Separation – The Connections Between Artworks
The big news over the last few days about Google’s Arts & Culture app has focused on people using the app to find their doppelgangers in the museum collections digitized by Google. While it is a neat feature, there are other Google Arts & Culture experiments worth trying. One of those is called X Degrees […]
Student Stories Drawings in ClassDojo
Student Stories is ClassDojo’s student portfolio tool that they launched around this time last year. A few weeks ago I gave a run-down of new features that are going to be added to ClassDojo’s Student Stories tool for the new school year. One of those features is an option for students to draw or annotate […]
One Image Inspires a Lesson
This is a guest post from Rushton Hurley. Rushton is the founder of Next Vista for Learning, a great place to find and share educational videos. Imagine starting class without saying anything. The students look at you, awaiting something. You wait long enough to catch their attention, and then project this image in front of […]
View 3500+ Art Exhibitions Online
Thanks to Open Culture I have just learned about the Museum of Modern Art’s new website that showcases artwork from the more than 3500 exhibitions that have been held at MoMA since its founding in 1929. MoMA’s Exhibition History site lets you browse through the highlights of every exhibition that has ever been on display […]
Smarthistory Offers a Crash Course in Art History
Smarthistory offers is a free online alternative to expensive art history textbooks. Smarthistory features more than just images of notable works of art. The combination of video lessons, text articles, and audio lessons about eras and themes in art history is what makes Smarthistory a valuable resource. Students can browse all of the resources of Smarthistory by […]