Art History Projects

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Comment by Jacky Hood on December 16, 2011 at 7:43pm

The Creative Commons Licensing quiz that I mentioned in today's meeting is available at http://collegeopentextbooks.ning.com/page/licensing-quiz

It was created Ken Busbee at Houston Community College and also Community College of Qatar. Ken is the author of an open licensed computer science textbook and his students in Qatar are writing an open-licensed textbook.

Comment by Jacky Hood on December 16, 2011 at 7:36pm

Archive to the great meeting on Dec 16  http://tinyurl.com/7yxn8q7
Here is the white board as a PDF: art%20history%20whiteboard%20dec%2016.pdf

Here is the Chat: art%20history%20chat%20dec%2016.txt

and the participant list art%20history%20mtg%20dec%2016%20participants.txt

Comment by Jacky Hood on November 16, 2011 at 6:43am

The Art reviews page is now in much better shape. We are still searching for the histogram for the Lessig book.

http://collegeopentextbooks.org/opentextbookcontent/thereviews/art....

It is not surprising the web-port contractors were confused; the two Digital Foundations books have similar titles and the same authors.

We also still need to fix the links and the text on the SmartHistory feature page. The Advocate/Trainer program was moved from its own ning to a Group on this ning. We will probably point people to Kate's own Foothill College page. http://www.foothill.edu/photo/katejordahl.php

Jacky

Comment by Shadieh Mirmobiny on November 15, 2011 at 10:53pm

Thank you Steven and Jacky. I am very new to this . . . but, am already learning.

Comment by Dr. Steven Zucker on November 15, 2011 at 6:50pm

Thanks Jacky!

Comment by Jacky Hood on November 15, 2011 at 6:47pm

Steven,

We will fix these errors.

Jacky

Comment by Dr. Steven Zucker on November 15, 2011 at 6:35pm

Dear Shadieh,

I wanted to point out that the COT review of Smarthistory seems not to have migrated to the COT's updated site correctly. The link to Kate Jourdahl and the link to her review of Smarthistory are both broken here:
http://collegeopentextbooks.org/opentextbookcontent/featuredsmarthi...

Also, the actual Smarthistory review seems to be missing and the synopsis of the review is actually for Lawrence Lessig's excellent book, Remix, instead of for Smarthistory: http://collegeopentextbooks.org/opentextbookcontent/thereviews/art....

I bring this up because your work will spur interest and this may well confuse people.

Best,
Steven

Comment by Patricia Rooker on November 15, 2011 at 5:42pm

Hello Shadieh,

My courses are project based too and a "bank" of project ideas would be a wonderful resource for instructors.

Pat

Comment by Jacky Hood on November 15, 2011 at 2:32pm

Shadieh, you can also reference the blog post Beth wrote for us in 2010 http://collegeopentextbooks.org/blog/2010/12/11/smarthistory-toward...

Comment by Shadieh Mirmobiny on November 15, 2011 at 10:21am

Yes! I would be happy to!

I teach different art history and humanities courses. One of the
things I found to be helpful is to integrate hands on learning into the course work with the emphasis on critical thinking. I mean have the students "experience" the material in different ways. They get to talk about it, write about it, utilize it, get creative with it, etc. I keep lectures to a minimum, but provide podcasts of all the lectures and have the students listen to them before hand, and come to class for discussion or other activities. As for the Art History Project, I would like to first get the word out to see what instructors like to see in terms of resources. But to get started, I was thinking of sharing some of the specific projects I have the students do. The second project has to do with adding diversity, specifically including non-western art historical resources. I will start that one with making my own textbook available on College Open Textbooks. Thanks for getting the word out; I appreciate any assistance you can provide.

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