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Bring American Art into Your Classroom! Artists and Their Work: In Brief is a baker's dozen CD collection of twenty-five years of educational print resources—now all out-of-print. To receive your free CD, contact Linda Maxwell at MaxwellL@saam.si.edu. Artful Connections Smithsonian American Art Museum http://americanart.si.edu/education/virtualtour.cfm “Visit the Smithsonian American Art Museum without leaving your school! Free of charge, we offer videoconference field trips for students from kindergarten through college. Via real-time videoconferencing, museum docents lead the study of U.S. history and culture using our extensive holdings of American art.” Topics
Evaluation: The Modern Era By Beverly Settle, K-12 art teacher: Brookfield Central School I set up a video conference with the Smithsonian Art Museum to tour “The Modern Era” on March 29, 2006. The class I used for this virtual tour was a group of 10 sixth graders. First I emailed Colleen Brown at BrownC@saam.si.edu. The next step was to set up a time to do a connection test. I forwarded the email to the technology coordinator to confirm that the test could be done at that time. There is a lot of back and forth email communication. We also exchanged phone numbers incase direct contact was necessary. Here are my observations in evaluation of this experience.
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