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__**By**__: Ned Campbell, Chris Cutno, Andy Bradfield, and Dan Byler __**For**__: Prof. Kreisher __**In**__: Blended eLearning __**On**__: June 6, 2012

__**General Topic**__: Art/Art History

__**Specific Topic**__: Impressionism and Impressionistic painters

__**Audience**__: High School Art students (9-12th graders)

__**Activity**__: Creation of an Online Glossary and Resource Links Center

__**Topic Overview**__: Most people are familiar with the names and perhaps even the works of the most celebrated impressionist painters, but besides simply recognizing the name Van Gogh or Monet, they really don’t know much more about this person. The goal of this activity is to get students engaged and interested in art, painting, and artists by creating an Online Glossary and Resource Links Center that can be used by future classes.

__**Task**__: The students will be using web resources provided by the class instructor to do research on the impressionist art movement. After they do their own research, they will be expected to contribute a collection of links they have produced and discovered in their web searches that provide more information on impressionism. Their links can be to websites, online articles, videos, and/or podcasts.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**Process/Guidance**__: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Each student will be assigned letters of the alphabet based on the total number of students in the class. It will be the responsibility of each student to develop an area of impressionism content that can be cataloged under each of the letters that they have been assigned by completing each of the following 4 steps:

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(1) __**Research**__: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Each student will use the provided list of web resources to learn more about different, themes, concepts, artists, and paintings of the impressionistic era that begin with the letter(s) that were assigned.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(2) __**Collect**__: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In the student’s research, students will gather pictures, links to videos, topical websites, and podcasts to add to their contribution.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(3) __**Organize & Develop**__: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A student will take their research and collection of information and develop pages for each of their assigned letters on a Wikispace identified by the instructor.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(4) __**Post**__: Once the student has completed the previous three steps, the student will then post their pages including the gathered content in a glossary format (A, B, C) on to the wikispace.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**Evaluation**__: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">After a student has submitted their contribution to the Online Glossary and Resource Links Center, students will be required to write a short essay about the topics the submitted items that they researched of the impressionist movement. Students will need to highlight areas they found as new knowledge and what interested them the most. The students will also need to give a detailed explanation on who is their favorite artist is, why, and what one of their favorite paintings is by that artist.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**Reflection**__: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This project was chosen as a continuation of a previously developed individual project from Phase 1 of the R2D2 learning model study that was done in the first couple of weeks in the online class, “Blended eLearning” at Bloomsburg University. Our group member, Chris Cutno, loves art and art history despite so many teachers seemingly going out of their way to make it the driest, most painfully dull and uninteresting subject known to man. It is truly felt that art is a great tool for students to have, and as one of the most unrestricted realms of creativity we have access to, we believe that by increasing the interest in art, students will be more interested, be creative and feel empowered by their creative freedom.