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State Arts Standards
Cool
Stuff - "The Best Educational Resources on the Web" - this
is a teacher-to-teacher resource, covering all levels and subjects - begins
with listing of new Arts resources- Daily Activities: Arts - have an activity, vocabulary word, quotation (MORE!) delivered to you daily - a wide variety of content
- DiscoverySchool - clip art library
- Educational Web Adventures - links to online activities for k-12 - these make use of new technologies and interactivity and many are interarts experiences - try the puppet show!
- i4C - Internet for Classroom: Arts - links for all subject areas in this listing - includes Lesson Plans - jump to the Gold Star sites
- Kids Image Search Tools - from KidsClick - general search enablers plus links to collections for Art
- Library of Congress American Memories - Photography, early movie& photography and Sound collections can be searched for primary documents
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Teaching and Learning on the Web - Web-based materials selected by the Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction - select Art from the search menu in the left frame
Virtual Trips of special interest to the
Arts - 
Full Listing of Virtual Trips
- Cave of Lascaux - just one of many virtual trips you can take in the art world - this one is especially well done
- Center
for Puppetry Arts Education provides k-12 virtual instruction in topics
such as hands-on puppet building and puppetry performance topics - Middle
and Upper School programs are available
- Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - The Virtual Gallery - students and teachers can create a "virtual gallery" from the huge selection of images, to be shared with others on the web
- MuseumStuff.com - locator for virtual museum exhibits - by topic
- Museum of Television and Radio offers distance education opportunities for k-12 (video conferencing) that draw upon their vast collection of vido and audio clips to expore themes such as puppetry, advertising and TV history
- Virtual Museum Exhibits - indexed by subject
- Virtual Museums - actual virtual gallery tours (as opposed to museum web site online) - you will need to scroll through the random list
Visual Arts - see
Software for tutorials on Photoshop and Digital
Media
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Action! in the Classroom - Resources for using digital video in the classroom - includes links to a text (commercial) and further teaching/learning materials
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Art History Research Center - for serious research - includes bulletin boards to which questions can be posted
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Art History Resources on the Web - go anywhere from here
- @rtroom! - interesting resources, activites, projects for all grades - posts student work in a "gallery" - "Links" section includes WebQuests and good virtual museum sites
- Artcyclopedia - images and investigation of over 125,000 works of art - search by artist, title, museum - information on artists, work, various images
- The Artist's Toolkit - interactive learning experience for exploring the tools visual artists use - great teaching tool!
- Much more at this rich site from Minneapolis, ArtsConnectEd
- Clay Animation Made Easy - how-to, guides, pedagogy, from Tonya Witherspoon
- Caricatures and Cartoons - digital archive from the Smithsonian
- Getty Museum ArtsEdNet - galleries, lesson plans, teaching ideas
- Graphics Software: Alphabetical Tutorial Index - reference both for digital imaging techniques and terms ("vector")
- High School Art Lessons - links to innovative lessons, many of which integrate some form of technology or the Internet
- ifilm - perhaps the largest collection of movie, TV and video clips on the Web - includes a selection of "LEGO Films" that can inspire "legomation" in the classroom, many based on legitimate movie icons - be patient with the download and replay
- The
Incredible Art Department - resources for Art in general (eg for artists),
but also a growing resource for teachers, including elementary level - lesson
plans, interactives, rubrics, resources
- Internet Movie Database - search for all kinds of information
- Mr. Picassohead - just for fun - interactive - or use it to discuss proportion and symmetry of the face...
- Sanford Art Edventures - interactive learning activities for elementary and upper middle school
- Smithsonian Everything Art - featured in-depth looks and related activities - a nice Virtual Modern Sculpture Tool
- The Case of Grandpa's Painting - interactive "art mystery" that can be explored cooperatively in the classroom
- Web Library - Free Media - for education only, copyright free photo images in a searchable database
Media Literacy - see also general resource sites that explore the pedagogy of education and Media Literacy as part of general tech integration knowledge
- Animated Language - exploration of the pedagogy, with resources
- Eyes on Art - a "learning to look" curriculum for elementary and middle school
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Hollywood's America - focusing specifically on this aspect of media literacy
- Media Literacy - a course blog/guide that includes valuable resources, articles, discussion
- Media Literacy Clearinghouse - for k-12 educators
- SmARTkids - site from the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago - flash-driven activities for elementary and middle school - visual literacy & media literacy focus
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Dance History Research and Scholarship - resources for many types on dance, historical and current
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Dance
Links - links to companies, performances, schools and more
- Dance
Technology.org - this will be the portal to resources for education
- due to be up in the 2004-5 school year - the Dance
& Technology Zone is currently maintaining an archive of this information
- eDionysus - Dance - information and articles on dance topics, plus articles and discussion
- History of Dance - history of mostly ballroom dancing
- I Hear America Singing - music, theater, dance digital resources from the Library of Congress
- Creating Music - games, including composition, for elementary and middle school
- Dallas Symphony Orchestra's Music Room for Kids - there is also a room for teachers
- Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine - public domain digitized music recordings 1900-1939 - includes a message board
- Music >> Artists Profiles - vast library of profiles covering all types of Western music - from the BBC
- Musicplasma - online somewhat visual search by artist for the body of work and discography - includes sound clips
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I Hear America Singing - music, theater, dance digital resources from the Library of Congress
- I Write the Music - extensive music resources "for the Composer" - ranges from hardware & software to mp3's and how-tos
- Integrating Music into the Elementary Classroom : WWW Links - resources to support users of the text - wide-ranging listing
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K-12 Resources for Music Educators - will lead you to online resources for teachers - unfortunately, not well updated
- MEG - Music Education Gal - resources for elementary school music teachers
- Music Hall: Music Education Resources - links to cross-cultural music study resources
- Music Resources - international listing for scholars and researchers, from Sibelius University
- New York Philharmonic Kids Room - games, information, composition activities
- Resources in Music Technology - links to hardware, lessons, pedagogy, software - not annotated
- San Francisco Symphony Orchestra - SFSKIDS - compose, learn about instruments and composers, more
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The Costume Site - links to historical and theatrical costuming
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The Costume Page - links to pages containing illustrations of historical costume
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Drama Teacher's Resource Room - archived articles, links, information, bulletin board
- I Hear America Singing - music, theater, dance digital resources from the Library of Congress
- Theatre History on the Web - all aspects of performance, especially technical
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E. Sky-McIlvain
8/11/04