Engaging Your Students in Arts Education and Technology

Engaging Your Students in Arts Education and Technology � Cecilia Wang, Ph. D University of Kentucky

Presentation � Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Engaging the Learner Kentucky CPE/KYVU Faculty Conference 2003 May 19 -20, Lexington

MUS 660 ---Fall 2002 � • •

Acknowledgement University of Kentucky � James O’Riley, Associate Dean of Graduate School Distance Learning Program Constance Mulligan Baird, Director/Associate Dean Andrea Milam, Director, Instructional Development Group Loren M. Zink, Instructional Development Group

Course Objectives � • Acquires skills to search arts-education-related information in the internet; • Acquire an understanding of how multi-media technology can be utilized for teaching about the arts; • Demonstrate understanding of the arts elements used in visual arts, dance, drama, and music; • Integrate technology with arts instruction

Course Units � • • Getting Started Visual Arts Music Dance Theater Curriculum Planning Project

Elements in Each Unit � • • • Unit Objectives Study Websites Webliography Arts Activities Building Your Own Web Page Assessment

Research Objectives � Did students • Acquire knowledge about the arts--art, music, dance, theater? • Apply their arts knowledge to instructional use? • Acquire knowledge about technology? • Apply their tech knowledge to instructional use? • Indicate any positive or negative attitude? • Engage in authentic arts experiences?

Themes for Content Analysis � • Knowledge of the Arts (KA) • Description of Content (dc) / Analysis of Content (ac) • Knowledge of Technology (KT) • Teaching Application (TA) • Instructor Directed (id) / Self Directed (sd) • Instructional Use, self-directed (iu) • Expression of Attitude (ATT) • Positive (+) or Negative (-) • Artistic Experiences (EXP) • Interacting Electronically (ie) • Attending a Live Arts Event (le) • Actively Engaged in Arts Activities (ae)

Results of Analysis � Presented in the next several slides

Description of Study Web Pages by Individual Students �

Summary of Art Activities Experienced by Students � • Critiqued and compared the features of various websites • Most interactive, most Scholarly, Most Attractive; Easiest to Navigate, Most Informative; Most Useful, Most Child-Appropriate • Researched using the “timeline of world civilization, planned it use for future instruction. • Topics selected by students include: Oceania region 1000 -1400 A. D; the making of stained glass window by a 12 th. C German monk; the nature of Islamic Art in Egypt, the artwork of North America from 1000 -1350

Summary of Art Activities Experienced by Students (cont. ) � • Visited a chosen museum, took a virtual tour of a featured exhibit and gave a report • Asian Art of the Cincinnati Art Museum • Prints by Mary Cassatt at the National Art Gallery • Masterpieces from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, at the National Art Gallery • Edouard Manet, National Gallery • Completed and compared two art workshops online • Draw Workshop, Photography Workshop

Summary of Art Activities Experienced by Students (cont. ) � • Described and explained the elements of art, the principles of art • Described the characteristics of art from four art periods and report of the artists representing those periods • Describe art resources in museums near home and field trip preparations • Critique a given art work and suggested correlation activities with music instruction

Summary of Music Activities Experienced by Students � • Explored websites pertaining to music teaching and applications to own classrooms • Examined and critiqued interactive musiclearning websites and lesson plans • Explored and find best resources for different music instructional purposes

Summary of Dance Activities Experienced by Students � • Found references and learned dance terminology • Viewed video clips of dance steps • Made original dance choreography for own students and field tested it • Discussed and identified different dance styles • Described folk dancing in Kentucky • Attended dance recital and wrote report

Summary of Theatre Activities Experienced by Students (cont. ) � • Studied various theatre techniques • Did theatre warm-up activities with own students and assessed the results • Researched on puppetry • Discussed the impact of technology on theatre education and production • Researched and reported on theatre of different periods/movement/cultures • Visited a children’s theatre and use theatre terminology to describe the production

Summary of Other Activities � • Production of a web page • Webliography • Project • Designing a brochure for School Orchestra Program and Orchestra web page • Created an instructional unit using interactive Internet resources to study the people of Japan • Created a Baroque Unit involving research in the internet and dramatization of Bach and Handel

Conclusion � At the end of the semester • Students acquired new knowledge about the arts and applied to their instruction • Students acquired new knowledge about technology and applied to their instruction • Students engaged in a variety of authentic arts experiences • Students had positive attitude about the course