Artstech: Technology Transforms the Arts

Prepared by Walter Krueger, B. A. in Education, D. Mus.
Concordia University + Portland Oregon

An archive of resources for students of EDU-576 "Technology Transforms the Arts" and other guests. We challenge ourselves to discover how technology is transforming classrooms in the areas of music, art, and drama. We are exploring current and emerging applications of the "technology-rich" arts classroom. We also seek personal and professional growth. We appreciate every opportunity to network with other educators. All are welcome to contact us at the e-mail below. ----Dr. Krueger Update: 04/28/03

Quick Index:

Technology in Drama / Dance Education

Virtual Reality Projects and Examples

Video Animation

Technology for Visual Art Education

Technology for Music Education

Publicity and Promotion

Fine Arts Advocacy

For Kids Only

Members Area

Write Us

Visual Art Education and Technology

Conceptualizations:

Getty Center www.getty.edu/artsednet Curriculum ideas, ArtsEdNet talk group, and other special features. Or try: it.wce.wwu.edu/necc97/poster4/ArtsEdNet/WebWhacker/WW1.html
Discipline-Based Art Education (DBAE) www.art.unt.edu/ntieva/artcurr from Texas art educators.

Highly Recommended for purchase:

Wacom Tablet www.wacom.com/productinfo/index.cfm For about $99 you get the Graphire2 tablet plus excellent software!

Useful Art Shareware/Freeware:

For PC, an excellent graphic viewer irfanview.tuwien.ac.at
Graphics software for MAC: GraphicConverter www.lemkesoft.de Be sure to read the "about" page before downloading. Shareware: $35 recommended. From Germany.
Graphics software for PC: L View Pro 2001 Shareware with time limit: $40 required after 21 days.

Web Art Galleries and Web Museums

DeYoung Museum in San Francisco -- be sure to visit with the ghost. www.thinker.org/fam/education/publications/ghost.
An Escher collection on the web! WorldOfEscher.com History information as well as pictures.
The Web Museum sunsite.unc.edu/wm/paint Viewable by artist or time period! You can get the same material from Paris: www.ibiblio.org/wm.
National Gallery of Art www.nga.gov Tours offered under "Collections." A virtual reality tour is included.
Art Institute of Chicago www.artic.edu/aic Virtual gallery tours, zoom in to see works closer, play art games! Wow!
Metropolitan Museum of Art www.metmuseum.org/
National Centre (Pompidou) of Modern Art and Culture in Paris www.cnac-gp.fr/Pompidou/Home.nsf/docs/fhome
Smithsonian www.si.edu Be sure to see the Virtual Smithsonian!
San Angelo Museum with Childrens Art Museum web2.airmail.net/samfa
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (incorporating the Bayou Bend House) www.mfah.org/bayoubend

Art Teacher Resources:

Getty Center www.getty.edu Collections of Fine Art, lesson plans, etc.
Art Teacher Chatboard teachers.net/mentors/art
Art Lexicon on the web ArtLex.com
An Artstech graduate came up with this one: www.artcyclopedia.com A total Fine Art Search Engine!
A teacher puts Mondrian lessons (K-12) on-line www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-352.html. But do we really need all that banner advertising? Counts as cross-curriculum - Art and Math.
@rtroom (Art Project Resources from the University of Florida) www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/index.html
Arts educator Makio Kawashima shares "Art Lessons and Ideas for Teachers." www006.upp.so-net.ne.jp/artcommunal/lessonplans.htm
Some Colorwheels! www.taospaint.com/Colorwheel
World Wide Art Resources at wwar.com
CRAYOLA's Educators Page www.crayola.com/educators
Repository of I-Film clips on the Internet www.ifilm.com You have to register to be a member. Not all appropriate for young eyes.
MaryAnn Kohl's www.brightring.com publishing company - great ideas for art educators.
Art Sparkers? Ideas to inspire art? www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/sparkers.html
Marilyn's Imagination Factory. Kid at Art! www.kid-at-art.com
It's a store, but some good art ideas are featured. www.Kinderart.com
Art Teachers Respources from Japan www006.upp.so-net.ne.jp/artcommunal/lessonplans.htm

Art Classrooms On the Web:

@rtie @rtie's "Art with Class" students www.geocities.com/artieartie2000/art_with_class.html
Ms. Peggy Rich's art classes www.stbernard.org/Specialty/Art/webpage.htm
More students put their computer graphics on the web www.northnet.org/mwcsart/cgraph
Mrs. D'Orazio displays her student's art! www.trinitypride.k12.pa.us/Elementary/North
A High School in New York - Computer Graphic Art eastmeadow.k12.ny.us/clarkehs/computergraphics
Ken Rohrer's "Incredible Art Department! Whoa! www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/ This site gets better and better!
The famous "Eyes on Art" Quiz! www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/art2
NEW From Japan, kids create their own art museum online! academic2.plala.or.jp/edo34s/gallery.html Great for building self-esteem among the youngsters.
See below under "Animations" also.

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Music Education and Technology

Conceptualizations:

Discipline-Based Music Education, DBME, explained.
Allegro Music Education Search Engine Look up by categories and key words.
Rhythm skills appropriate for each grade level with examples lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/yyang/HTML/prj-rhythm.html
Melody skills appropriate for each grade level with examples lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/yyang/HTML/prj-melody.html
Lesson Plans according to National Standards
Music Education Launch Site Find "Mr. Note" on the left menu--worth the visit.

Issues and Applications:

Provider of technology for the schools www.aabaca.com (It's a store, be prepared for commercials!)
Madison Wisconsin Schools www.madison.k12.wi.us/music/tech/techconf.htm
www.multimania.com/cottonfields/spectacles-video.htm
Sing me a Story! www.singmeastory.net
Kathy Engell's Techology Music Classroom www.asd.wednet.edu/EagleCreek/Engell/musictech.htm
A new concept - www.ubdrumcircles.com/videos.php
Bookwhackers - a new phenom! www.boomwhackers.com
Smartmusic! As demo-ed in class! www.smartmusic.com
Music Education Technology www.quadrant.net/compumedia All equipment in set-up described.
Music and the Science of Music? www.menc.org/guides/IHWE/ihweopen.html
An example of "teaching across the curriculum." Pages for both teachers and students.
Lesson ideas for all age groups www2.potsdam.edu/crane/campbemr/lessons/ Easy to follow.
Musical Instruments of the Renaissance www.s-hamilton.k12.ia.us/antiqua/instrumt.html
Music Instrument Encyclopedia www.si.umich.edu/chico/instrument/
Museum of "Invented" Musical Instruments -- what fun! www.op97.org/~erexford/base/index.html
Music Education Madness! www.musiceducationmadness.com
One School's Website hearttoart.com/brmusic
Home of Music K-8 Magazine www.musick8.com Join their music education list.
A Virtual Music Classroom www.musickit.com/virtualclassrm.html
Learn to play piano on-line? www.cyke.com/music/music.html
Free downloadable sheet music in many categories. www.8notes.com
Fun Music Ideas at www.funmusicideas.com. You can subscribe to their newsletter.
How are teachers helping each other? Visit the Music Teacher Chatboard
Jazz education www.redhotjazz.com
PBS Jazz special www.pbs.org/jazz

Music Software:

MusicAce Software www.harmonicvision.com/ (free demo)
Coda Software www.codamusic.com (Finale, Smart Music, Allegro, etc.)
Music Industry News www.harmony-central.com
Cross platform sequencer: Master Tracks Pro 6.8 gvox.com. You can download the program free for 10 days trial.
Band-in-a-Box www.pgmusic.com/

Useful Shareware/Freeware:

Simple music notation with NotePad for MAC and PC.
A sequencer program DEMO for MAC hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Cubasis_AV
Downloadable resources for music teachers hearttoart.com/brmusic/downloads.html
SoundApp Can convert many types of audio files
including: aif, wav, and MP3.

FREE Sound Effects:

Collections of Music Education URL's:

Sandy Tom's Music Resources www.angelfire.com/nb/musicedresources
Music Education links: www.aces.k12.ct.us/~Spagnesi/help/music.htm
Resources for Music Educators (Incredible links!) www.isd77.k12.mn.us/resources/staffpages/shirk/k12.music.html
Kathy Schrock's Guide to web resources in the arts school.discovery.com/schrockguide/arts/artp.html

MIDI web sites:

Classical MIDI archives (J.S. Bach) www.prs.net/bach.html
What is MIDI? www.musig.org/WhatisMIDI.html
Large collection of classical MIDI files for personal use only. www.channel1.com/users/gsilvis
A General MIDI (GM) patch map kingfisher.cms.shu.ac.uk/midi/gm_map.htm or arts.ucsc.edu/recording/MIDI.instmap.html
MIDI for the classroom www.schools.ash.org.au/ealthelp/midi.htm

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Theatre / Dance Education and Technology

Story Time:

Always suitable for children, Aesop's Fables www.literature.org/authors/aesop/fables
Tales by the Brothers Grimm www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp
Absolutely "Whootie" -- "Stories to Grow By" -- www.storiestogrowby.com
Scripts! english-www.hss.cmu.edu/drama/long.html
Literature on line! A resource for drama! Frank Baum, Lewis Carol, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allen Poe, etc. That should give students some dramatic ideas! www.literature.org/Works/
Mysteries? 221-B Baker Street Lives! 221bakerstreet.org
Telling Stories in the Classroom? storyarts.org

Theatre Technology Time:

What is "Show Control?" www.rfbl.demon.co.uk
Show Control Lighting www.people.virginia.edu/~rlk3p/desource/TechNotes/MSC.html
The Costume Page members.aol.com/nebula5/costume.html
Japanese Kabuki Theatre www.fix.co.jp/kabuki/kabuki.html Make-up and more!
Puppetry Home Page www.sagecraft.com/puppetry/
Theatre Arts Education Lesson Plans from "AskEric" askeric.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi/Resources/Subjects/Arts/Theatre_Arts.html
Drama Teacher's Resource Room www3.sk.sympatico.ca/erachi
Creative Drama creativedrama.com
Must-See Make-up by the pros www.makeup-fx.com
From the Smithsonian: American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920 lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vshome.html
Children's Theatre Resource Page faculty-web.at.nwu.edu/theater/tya
Masterpiece Theater www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece
Shakespeare and the Globe www.rdg.ac.uk./globe
Theatre Design Archive www.siue.edu/ITDA/y.html
Education-World! www.education-world.com
�List of theater links. www.top20theater.com

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Dance-Related

Excellent dance links at: www.dancer.com/dance-links
American Ballet Theatre www.abt.org
African Dancing www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/~ladzekpo/
Dance net: www.dance.net
Learn dance steps at "Bustamove" www.bustamove.com

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Virtual Reality Projects and Examples

"Nova" presents the Great Kofu Pyramid at your mouseclick www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/explore/khufuall.html
Instructions for QTVR, with examples! www.edb.utexas.edu/teachnet/QTVR
NEW Here's our incredible art project! We call it "Bradley Takes a Turn"

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Video Animation

For PC users: GIF Construction Set www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/gifcon.html
For MAC users: Try GIFBUILDER eoni.mac.tucows.com/preview/206447.html
Student work done in Quicktime format. ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits.shtml
www.awn.com Look at the Animation Showcase - check out Peter Chung's work.
Clever animations www.loosemoose.net/docs/ads/rocky.htm
Kids film commercials for their schools, etc. www.springfield.k12.il.us/commercials
A "claymation" kit is available here www.tech4learning.com
Wallace's Workshop www.aardman.com/wallaceandgromit/workshop

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Publicity and Promotion

Brag about your kids who write an Opera? www.fcps.k12.va.us/HuntersWoodsES/music/hwopera/opera.htm
TCA-Net Texas Cultural Arts Network www.arts.state.tx.us
HTML: An interactive tool for beginners www.davesite.com/webstation/html/ (Be sure to scroll down to the mini-chapters.)
Non-Dithering Web Colors! www.lynda.com/hexh.html
Test your web colors here! www.exoticblades.com/tamara/colorchart.html
A Massachusetts community promotes its artists www.artsgloucester.com

Fine Arts Advocacy

Why the "arts" are important? President George W. Bush offers his thoughts www.artsusa.org/public_awareness.
National Standards for Arts Education (may be printed) artsedge.kennedy-center.org/professional_resources/standards/natstandards/standards_print.html
State Standards (including Washington)

artsedge.kennedy-center.org/professional_resources/standards/state_standards.html

American Council for the Arts www.artsusa.org Helps advocate for Arts.
National PTA Arts Advocacy www.pta.org/programs/cultrini.htm
NEW Author Nita Sturiale describes the value of arts on learning and intelligence. www.nitasturiale.com/papers/brainpaper.html

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Professional Organizations and Resources

Ever wish for a PowerPoint tutorial or refresher course? www.oregonstate.edu/instruction/ed596/ppoint/pphome.htm
Interactive White Boards anyone? www.smarttech.com/
Wish for an understandable explanation of copyright and performance rights? www.mediafestival.org/copyrightchart.html
The special intersection between art and science is explored here www.artscience.org
From the federal government--how to get used computers www.computers.fed.gov
Microsoft Education Resources www.microsoft.com/education/?ID=schools "Can technology tame a challenging class? See how one teacher re-ignited student interest with the help of the Internet"

Kids-Safe Arts Places!

Parent's Guide to the Internet www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/internet
(more soon!)

Some On-Line Kid's Activities

Kid's Music - On Line, interactive, Sing-a-Long! www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/music.htm
Art History Mystery! members.tripod.com/~artworkinparis/index-5.html Travel from museum to museum to gather clues. Really a shame that such potential is somewhat marred by pop-up ads and useless cookies.
Global Show and Tell! www.telenaut.com/gst/
Children's Computer Painting Museum www.yk.rim.or.jp/%7Ehyper01/indexe.htm
CRAYOLA's Kids Page www.crayola.com/kids
Wallace and Gromit On-Line! www.aardman.com/wallaceandgromit/home2.asp

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