Over the past several year, I have been thinking about ways for the e-Learning Institute to work more closely with the College of Arts and Architecture's Palmer Museum of Art. My most recent thought has been to take advantage of the numerous exhibitions displayed at the Palmer and expanding the viewable audience, to students and the community, by developing them into online instructional modules.
The purpose of this posting is to announce the that the idea is coming to fruition as Jan Muhlert, the Director of the Palmer Museum of Art, and I have agreed to explore the concept by developing a proof of concept module based on one of the current exhibitions. To help support this effort, I have agreed to fund an Art Education graduate assistant to work with Palmer of Art curators as well as the instructional designers within the Institute to develop the module.
The module is to be fully developed by the end of summer, 2010. If all works out, the long-term plan would be to build on the relationship with the Palmer by continuing to convert future exhibitions utilizing the pilot module as a framework for future development. In addition, my goal would be to prove an ongoing assistantship to fund the develop the future modules.
Stay tuned to see how the project progresses.
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QR marks
Sounds cool. I think the museum exhibits should be augmented with QR marks to link them into the lessons in the module.
That's a good idea...
I don't know what the camera policies are in museums, but the biggest drawback is when you are looking at something you really like and the only information available is the small placard describing who painted it and who owns it. If you could snap a picture of the QR mark, and have all the relevant information about a work of art pop up on your internet enabled device, I think that would be much more informative and enjoyable. I would say 99% of the people who go to art museums are not art historians and need to have the context of the art in order to really appreciate what they are looking at, myself included.
Let's try it out!
Speaking of participation, it
Speaking of participation, it could be pretty awesome to have a twitter feed / comment stream associated with one of those QR marks. People could come to the object in the museum, snap a picture of that icon and go to a discussion of others critics / thoughts on the work. Hope we can get something going regardless :)