Week 7: Designing a unit

Title: A virtual visit to The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Instructors: Adrienne D’Angelo and Tiffany Wang

Audience: A handful of HS students some who visit the museum regularly, art interested in art history, and some who have never visited or are unfamiliar.

Objectives: The learning goals for this lesson are for the students to become comfortable using web 2.0 tools as a learning tool and to look at works of art and experience it through interpretation and discussion.

Goals: The overall goal of the project is to get students to look critically at works of art at The Met and think about art through interpretive questions and discussion. An overarching goal is to get them interested in art and possibly visiting the actual works in person or works at another cultural institution.

Pacing/Timeframe: Each unit will last 20-30 minutes online for each work of art. A 5 minute introduction about the unit and how to use the tools will initiate each session followed by a 2-3 minute assignment of just looking at the work in Powerpoint (link below). The next 15-20 minutes will be spent in discussion in Skype about the work.

Please click here to view the instructions to use Skype

Activities: The course will be set over four weeks. Students will follow each week's instruction via Powerpoint (link below), and discussions with instructors through Skype. Each week the students will view a different work of art and have a conversation about the work for 20-30 minutes. After each lesson, students are encouraged to think more about the work and the discussion. If students are interested, they may do research on their own. The conversations will be fun and engaging. Participation, ideas and thoughts are the most important part of the course. We want to hear what the students think!

Please click here for weekly schedule of discussions, assignments and activities

Resources: Skype and Powerpoint will be used to teach the lesson. If light research is assigned, they will be encouraged to use the web to read. We will use Survey Monkey, an online survey software and questionnaire tool to collect student comment and survey results.

Requirements: Access to a computer with a webcam, mic, internet access and activated Skype account, Microsoft Powerpoint.

Assessment: After the course, students will be asked to fill out a quick survey email on Survey Monkey about the course. Again, we want students' thoughts and opinions.

Please click here to fill out the online survey

Thank you for an enjoyable and lively discussion!