2008 Annual Mabry Film Festival
tinyurl.com/9bl4ha
View iMovies created by middle school students.
Artport
artport.whitney.org
The
Whitney Museum of American Arts’ portal to net art.
Black Self/White Self
cds.aas.duke.edu/ltp/blackwhiteself.html
Fifth-grade
students at Pearsontown Elementary School in Durham, North Carolina explore
issues of race and identity through writing and photography.
Eyebeam Art Gallery's 2005 Digital Day
Camp
www.eyebeam.org/learning/DDC05
Students
participating in studied the fundamentals of fashion and design, including the
politics surrounding the implementation of various uniforms.
Fantasy Design
www.fantasydesign.org
A website for a three-year pan-European design project involving 4,000 children in a range of design tasks.
The First Peoples’ Project
www.iearn.org.au/fp
This site links indigenous students around the world through an exchange of
ideas, culture and art.
The Flickr Negative Space Pool
www.flickr.com/groups/negativespace/pool
This site
includes over 14,000 images illustrating negative space.
FugleFlicks
www.sd25.org/~TriciaFuglestad/VisualArt/page14/page14.html
Mini-educational videos created by Illinois art teacher Tricia Fuglestad to teach art-related concepts.
Kids Reconstruct with Creativity
www.scholastic.com/artandwritingawards/index_page4.htm
An
exhibition, publication, and online gallery of artwork and writing by America’s youth in response to the events surrounding hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma.
Life Photo Archive on Google
images.google.com/hosted/life
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today.
Maps: Finding Our Place in the World
www.fieldmuseum.org/maps
A companion website for a large map exhibition at the Field Museum in Chicago.
My 100 Cardboards
tinyurl.com/qkzxqz
Berni Valenta's 100 characters on cardboard might inspire kids to come up with their own creative ways to upcycle cardboard.
Nancy Judd's Recycle Runway
www.colores.us/PulpFashion/pulpfashion.htm
This site
features a collection of elegant recycled garments that raise environmental consciousness and create excitement about sustainability.
National Curriculum in Action (UK)
www.ncaction.org.uk
This site uses students’ art and design work and case study materials
to show what the British national curriculum looks like in practice.
Not On The Test
www.notonthetest.com
Tom Chapin's music video is a great arts education advocacy tool.
NYPL Digital Gallery
digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm
This site
contains a wealth of easily accessible digital content for students, researchers, and casual visitors.
Nat Geo - Paper
tinyurl.com/7gfyxy
This simple stop-motion animated short from Amautalab encourages viewers to to use papermore than once before tossing it. (on YouTube)
Self Portrait UK 14–19 campaign
www.channel4.com/learning/microsites/S/selfportraituk14to19
View one hundred of the most distinctive self-portraits submitted to a campaign
sponsored by Channel 4 in the United Kingdom.
Teaching Copyright
www.teachingcopyright.org
The Electronic Frontier Foundation created this curriculum to provide classroom materials on teaching about our legal rights and responsibilities in the digital era.
The Whale Hunt: A Storytelling Experiment
www.thewhalehunt.com/whalehunt.html
Jonathan Harris chronicles an Inupiat whale hunt in 3,214 photos.
The Webby Awards' 12 Most Influential Online Videos of All Time
www.webbyawards.com/press/top12videos.php
Each of the videos shown represents an important starting point for tactics and trends currently flourishing online.
2008 West Virginia Flash Animation Festival
faculty.westliberty.edu/2008festival
Watch student-produced animations.
WDDYDWYD?
www.wdydwyd.com
A
worldwide community-art project that asks participants to answer the simple question "why do you do what you do?" by combining an image and text in a creative way.
What Makes a Good Project?
stager.tv/blog/?p=359
Gary Stager offers some great tips on What Makes a Good Project? and Raising Our Standards - Developing Projects that Endure. (PDF downloads)
