This week our project is to present a lesson plan in which we would use
wikis. I have chosen a lesson plan that I would use in a university museum
setting for students taking a basic art class on museum experience. My interest
for this project would be to emphasize to students that there are artists everywhere.
Even in Kansas!
Students would be learning the content in class and in the museum.
Outside of class they would be divided into groups with each group taking a
time period in American art. They would utilize the wiki to create a site that
ties the American moments they have been assigned to historical and
contemporary Kansas artists. This would allow for students to create their own
learning experience and learn from others at the same time using a type of
communal contructivist outlook on their own learning.
I think wikis would work well for this type of project. Students couldn't
work in class on the actual wiki. Class time would be used for content and all
wiki work would be done outside of class. This would constitute all homework
assigned for this unit, and be a significant part of their final grade.
courtesy Beach Museum of Art
For instance, students might compare Kansas Artist Birger Sandzen to Post Impressionist Vincent van Gogh and discuss similarities between each man's style and technique.
Vincent van Gogh Post Impressionist courtesy Wiki Paintings Visual Art Encyclopedia
Title: American Art Movements and Kansas Regionalist Art
Target Audience: Art
Experience Students- College Freshman
Training Objectives:
Students will have an understanding of the historical movements of art in the
United States and will be able to apply the qualities of each movement to
applicable Kansas Artists
Materials needed:
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Regular classroom handouts for art movements
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Wiki how to sheets
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Rubric
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Computers/Internet access
Instruction Procedure:
Week 1- Introduction to art movements and expectations
Week 2- Group division and Brainstorm-Introduction to Wikis
Week 3-6 Outside class work on Wikis
Week 7- Group Presentations of Wiki
Week 8-Self and Group Evaluation
Suggested Activities and
Practices: Descriptions of Art Movements, Style Examples, Maps, Timelines,
Artist Quotes, journal entries
Evaluation/Rubric: Students
will be graded on
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Collaborative Effort
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Content
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Visual Aesthetic
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References
Student References for wiki:
References for blog posting:
Allen, E. (2007).
Integrating learning types and cognitive taxonomies: Wedding two classic models. Journal of Psychological Type, 67(7),
59-70. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.er.lib.k-state.edu/docview/621629213?accountid=11789
Tangney, B., FitzGibbon,
A., Savage, T., Mehan, S., & Holmes, B. (2001). Communal Constructivism:
Students constructing learning for as well as with others. In Society
for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (Vol.
2001, No. 1, pp. 3114-3119).
I really like that you chose art. I myself am somewhat of an artist. I paint with oils. Not great but I really enjoy it. I usually paint landscapes. I took an art appreciation course online where you could choose what artist you wanted to study about. I chose DaVinci.
ReplyDeleteI like the fact you have students work on their wikis outside of class and create presentations. It teaches students skills outside of class. People need to learn about art because it not only opens up new horizons but gives them opportunities to expand their interests.
I like the fact you have students work on their wikis outside of class and have presentations. It teaches students skills outside of class.
If you enjoy art history you might check out Khan Academy's classes. They have a pretty extensive learning library of practically any artist or time period you'd like to explore!
DeleteI agree with your assessment of art opening new horizons for people. Sometimes it opens horizons they didn't even know existed :)
I'm glad that you mentioned "communal constructivism". That's exactly what wiki advocates. Also since your learning objective is to "have an understanding...", the wiki project you designed falls nicely into the Knowledge Construction domain. Good job, Dianna. Just need a little bit clarification on the followings:
ReplyDelete(1) In your plan, it is not very clear what you expect the students to put on the wiki site/page. In your intro, you said "They would utilize the wiki to create a site that ties the American moments they have been assigned to historical and contemporary Kansas artists." That's still too broad, I think, putting myself in your students' shoes. I was thinking maybe more detailed instructions could be found in those "Wiki how to sheets"? If so, it would be clearer if you provide more details on what those wiki how-to sheets are. If not, what do you want to see in each wiki group's final product?
(2) "Week 3-6 Outside class work on Wikis". Do you mean that students and the instructor won't meet in these four weeks and wiki groups find their own time and place to meet or work individually? More detailed instruction is needed here. My one cent is that since most classrooms have Internet, it would not be a bad idea to have students still come to classroom every week to work on their wiki projects together.
(3) Your references are not following APA....
Thanks.
Kang
Just to help clarify :)
DeleteThe learning objective for the entire project was intended to be broad, which allows for more detail in daily lesson plans and objectives. I intended the suggested activities and practices listed "Descriptions of Art Movements, Style Examples, Maps, Timelines, Artist Quotes, journal entries" to give more specific examples of how students would actually create their wiki.
If I were using a wiki for a class I was teaching the wiki would be in addition to the classroom material presented. Weeks 3-6 would be as usual class continuing the in-class process of learning about art movements. I created a lesson plan I would use in the museum setting, not strictly online. If we used the weeks 3 to 6 for in class wiki work it would be relatively ineffective since all students in a group can't work online on the page at the same time as it causes a problem editing and saving work.
I intended the references as student references for the project, not my reference for the blog post. I will make that more clear and add my references separately.
Thanks for the comments and suggestions, hope my explanations were adequate.
Yes, thanks! K.
DeleteDianna:
ReplyDeleteGood work on your lesson plan! The layout is easy to follow and the pictures add a nice visual appeal. From a student’s perspective, especially in 8 week courses, it is helpful to have course outlines that can be easily comprehended, as these classes move quickly.
I like how you point out about emphasizing to your students that artists are everywhere. I completely agree. I have a strong interest in photography and until recent years, I never looked at this as a form of art or really stopped to give this much thought. Since I have taken my art to the next level of making it into a business, this has really opened my eyes to art. It really is everyone and can be applied to many contexts.
I have a few questions.
1) Do your future goals include teaching a course similar to this art class?
2) How can you apply your learning of wikis and this blog post to your current position and/or in a future role?
3) What is the most significant element of lesson plans you have learned through developing this blog post?
4) If you were teaching this course solely online, what might you do differently to deliver this class via distance?
5) What are some challenges you might encounter delivering this course entirely online versus in a face-to-face learning environment?
I am curious to more learn about what has inspired your interest in art. My father inspired my interest and passion for landscape photography. A few years ago, I decided to pursue photography as a business, focusing on agriculture and landscapes. More recently, my focus has been on family and pet photography.
Your lesson plan provides a good balance of self-directed learning activities. When students are given flexibility with course projects, this can allow learners the opportunity to express considerable creativity, which is a major element and goal of art education (Hastie & Wold, 1961). I find that providing the opportunity for ample self-direction in adult learning, students can connect their learning to what real-life events they encounter or situations they are currently in or have been involved in (West & West, 2009).
You provide a great example of how wikis can be used in face-to-face courses. As all of my wiki experience has been through online coursework, you have helped me to better understand how this form of technology can be applied to face-to-face courses. I like how you divide up the activities with the face-to-face course time being through groups and the “homework” involves the use of wikis. The students can have the opportunity to learn from their peers through direct interaction and collaborating with the use of wikis. After the learners have participated have attended class in person, the work they contribute to at home with wikis can help them to better organize the information they are learning and edit the final outcomes (West & West, 2009).
Although, all of my graduate courses have been online, I really enjoy the opportunity to interview experts in the field in real-life for class projects. I have done this for several assignments from developing newspaper articles, recording videos, to developing community-based programs. This really helps enhance my learning of the subject matter being studied. I can more directly apply the knowledge to “real-life.”
Hastie, R. & Wold, S.G. (1961). Art education. Review of Educational Research, 31(2), p. 217-223.
West, J.A. & West, M.L. (2009). Using wiki’s for online collaboration. San Francisco, C.A.: Jossey-Bass.
My journey in art is a pretty convoluted one! I started as an art teacher in the public schools. I loved teaching but really found the structure of the classroom environment was too confining. I quit teaching to stay home with my kids, which was pretty confining in itself! Because my time was no longer my own I also worked in photography, which worked as a great creative outlet for a mom with little time. Photography is something I still do, though I specialize in real estate and commercial areas.
DeleteIf I continue to work in museum education, which is where I finally landed and what started this foray into museum education, I would definitely be interested in teaching a class like this. When I was working at the Beach museum on the K-State campus one thing I noticed with university students who came through the museum was their assumption that nothing really creative, interesting or famous was from Kansas. The Beach is a regional museum concentrating on Kansas artists specifically, so it was really exciting to show them what Kansas really has to offer in the arts. We left Manhattan fairly recently for my husband’s job and I haven’t landed back in the museum setting.
As for teaching this class solely online, I’m not sure how that would shake out. Art is a course that really needs some face to face interaction, or at least art to face interaction. You really can’t get the feel for a painting like Monet’s water lilies or van Gogh’s Iris’ until you are standing in front of them. Art history can “make do” with online interaction and the internet has certainly offered access to great resources for that. But for students working on a studio class where they are required to created something outside of the computer I don’t know how to make that happen.
Thanks for your insight and questions!
Nice lesson plan! I would definitely take your course. Where I'm from we have an awesome art museum, but I have only been there maybe once or twice. I find art difficult to study because I don't know what I'm looking for. I could probably fly through an art museum in 30 minutes. Your class would definitely teach the expertise of the art and what makes every artist different. I liked how you pointed out that class time would be used specifically for classwork and the wiki would be completed outside of the classroom. I think that is a good way to go, if the students have questions they can ask during class time. Students need to realize homework is something you do outside of class. Have you incorporated this lesson plan into an actual class?
ReplyDeleteHi Dianna,
ReplyDeleteI very much enjoyed your lesson plan, I appreciate that it is short and to the point yet still provides all the information needed. (Sometimes I get lost in an abundance of information!) What I found most appealing to your use of Wiki technology is that it highlighted local artists. I believe incorporating locality into this project helps learners relate more to their learning; learners are not just learning about another place, another time, another person, they are discovering ways in which they are somewhat connected to their topic of learning. This application and relation might help learners create more meaning from their learning experiences.
I also like that you require learners to work on Wikis outside of class. This allows them to experience Wiki technology to its fullest potential, distance collaboration; to me, collaborating on a Wiki within a face to face setting somewhat defeats the purpose of using this tool for collaboration.
Overall, your lesson plan was easy to follow, it seemed effective, and it supported Wiki integration; great job!