Dan Gross and I moderated the FTC session Integrating Art Into the Teaching of Math, Science and other Disciplines enabled by Internet2.
There could be no greater example of the power of WiscNet and Internet2 than by having Dale Hilton from the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) present a distance learning sample session on the Harlem Renaissance. Talk about hitting a homerun! This was an amazing session for educators in Wisconsin to experience Art and multimedia in a distance learning setting…from Madison to Cleveland over Internet2 in real-time.
Dale began the session by surveying issues teachers will face when providing distance learning sessions. Dale was able to accurately address real-world experiences and even technologies used at the CMA in their distance learning studios to tap into the visual resources of the Museum. CMA delivers over 700 distance learning sessions annually.
Bigger picture: Art provides a dynamic, multidisciplinary approach to teaching math, science, history and many subjects in design. It proves you can engage students with great content and powerful Art. If you feel this has yet to really take hold in classrooms, the FTC keynote by Michael Wesch watch here helps show how engaging this can be over the internet.
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CMA teaches a university course A Survey of Non-Western Art via Internet2 to Bradley University. From Cleveland Ohio to Peoria Illinois two days a week for an entire semester. Nothing better than engaging students with rich content … regardless of distance.
CMA is also an example of how community promotes the Arts. At the December Internet2 conference in Chicago I attended the Performing Arts advisory meeting and learned of the impact of Cleveland’s Ingenuity Festival and how the Cleveland Art community has come for the greater good: exposure to the Arts.
My thanks to Dale and Dan Gross, the UWMadison team: Dave Devereaux-Weber and Jamie Poindexter and the WiscNet superstars Andrea Deau and Alicia Mundt!
Tags: WiscNet, Future Technologies Conference, Dale Hilton, Cleveland Museum of Art, Internet2, Distance Learning