Art and Technology
I attended an Art and Technology March 10. The goal was to connect art with teenagers. The project had students looking at art work, creating poems, writing scripts about the art work and then creating digital stories. See this site http://www.nelson-atkins.org/education/NewDimensions/NewDimensions_Moving.cfm
They used DS because of the possibilities of publication, audience. They found the students were excited about the technology, but worked harder on the project because it might be published for all the world to see. I found the say thing happening when I had students do projects that would have an expanded audience. They worked harder on projects like web pages, presentations to be shown at an open house or to the schoolboard. It something about going outside the classroom walls that idea of giving students a bigger audience. I am using my mini grant monies to do an open institute on digital storytelling and some othe Web 2.0 activities. We are going to try a podcast, use a wiki, and blog. I will be picking this groups brains a little closer to June. Mary in Missouri
