A-searching by RRice 1999 . UNCG Art Department

Art Education Curriculum Sources on the Internet .@rtEd WebLinks Given the incredible growth of the Internet, students will likely find more and newer sites; this is only a starting point. Many of the sites listed below provide links to other pertinent sites.   Return to:  Art 360 | Art 363 | Art 365 | Art 367 | Art 565

• UNCG's "How to Search the Web" includes selection of the most popular search tools.
• Wikipedia free encyclopedia
• About.com

• Jim Kapoun provides a checklist of evaluation criteria in an easy-to-use table format. Kapoun is reference and instruction librarian at Southwest State University in Marshall, MN.
• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators, http://www.cyberbee.com/guides.html offers critical evaluation surveys, links, and more.
• WWW CyberGuide Ratings for Content Evaluation, http://www.cyberbee.com/guide1.html

• Library of Congress, Learning Page, http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/start/cite/index.html, MLA and Turabian formats for citing resources found on the Web..
• Citing Electronic Fulltext
• http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/journalism/cite.html

• The Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette - Index By Arlene H. Rinaldi, http://www.fau.edu/netiquette/net/
• Shea, Virginia, Netiquette, http://www.albion.com/netiquette/index.html

• Hobbes' Internet Timeline,  http://info.isoc.org/guest/zakon/Internet/History/HIT.html, detailed, chronological listing of Internet events.
• Internet and World Wide Web History, http://www.elsop.com/wrc/h_web.htm, a series of links to online articles about Internet history
• Gromov, Gregory R.  "History of the Internet and WWW:  The Roads and Crossroads of Internet History,"  http://www.internetvalley.com/intval-zagotovka3-0327-25.htm,
• View from Internet Valley, http://www.internetvalley.com/intval.html, gives links to history about the Internet and the World Wide Web.
• Living Internet is a comprehensive source of information about the history of the iternet and the major features of internet.  Excellect source! http://www.livinginternet.com/

• Virtual Reference Desk
• Electric Library, http://www.elibrary.com/id/120/205/, offers search of magazines, newspapers, TV broadcast transcripts, books, reports, pictures, and maps.
• 1 Look Dictionaries http://www.onelook.com/ indexes 331 dictionaries.
• Online Encyclopedia, http://www.encyclopedia.com/, gives short articles, plus links to other internet sites on the topic.
• Research Paper, http://www.researchpaper.com/, has writing tips and help, and a selection of topics, including art.
• The Pink Monkey, http://www.pinkmonkey.com/, has texts, study guides, and more.  More general education focus.

• Art Net Web, http://www.artnetweb.com/index1.html, a "Webzine" that sponsors the Guggenheim Museum and reviews with other contemporary New York art scene activities.
• The Artchive, http://www.artchive.com/core.html, has picture sources, articles on theory and criticism, and more.
• Journal of Post Modern Culture, http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/, has articles on art criticism.

• Art History Resources on the Web, http://witcombe.bcpw.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html, offers an incredible resource for prehistoric- to 20th-century art.
• Art Images for College Teaching, http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/html/, a royalty-free image exchange resource for the  educational community. Arranged by historical era.
• Association for Art History, http://www.indiana.edu/~aah/, a professional association dedicated to the study of art history.
• Art Library Online, http://www.artlibrary.com/, has indexes to artists and other useful information.
• International Directory of Art Libraries, http://iberia.vassar.edu/ifla-idal/, is a good research source.
• The Artchive, http://www.artchive.com/core.html, has picture sources, articles on theory and criticism, and more.
• Cool and Useful Resources, http://www.teleport.com/~burrell/, designed for secondary students and has many art history links.
• The Roland Collection of Videos and Films on Art, http://www.roland-collection.com/, lists numerous works that are helpful for art history instruction.
• Van Gogh's Van Gogh, http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/vgwel.htm,  A National Gallery Online Tour
• Gateway to Art History, complied for use with Garner's Art through the Ages, http://www.harbrace.com/art/gardner/, Harcourt College Texts.
• Art Images for College Teaching, http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/index.html, a project dedicated to the principle of free exchange of image resources for and among members of the educational community.

• Bender-Burkot East Coast School Supply, http://www.bender-burkot.com/, is a NC state contract supplier.
• Discount Art Supplies, http://www.discountart.com/
• Fletch Discount Art Supplies, http://www.artsupplystore.com/
• Liquitex, http://www.liquitex.com/, gives dealers in your area that carry Liquitex products.
• Rex Art, http://www.rexart.com/.
• Sax Art Supplies, http://www.saxarts.com/ .
• Winsor and Newton, http://www.winsornewton.com/.

• Applied Science and Engineering Laboratories, http://www.asel.udel.edu/, has information on research and links to other sites about assistive technology
• National Arts and Disability Center,  http://www.dcp.ucla.edu/nadc/
• National Institute of Art and Disabilities, http://www.niadart.org/

WWW Art Guide, http://www.artcents.com/artguide/, has many links.

Worldwide Art Resources, http://world-arts-resources.com/index.html, extensive guide for Art--all areas.

Webmuseum Cyberculture Research Library-Cyberart GlobalLinks, http://www.lastplace.com/page164.htm

Artswire, http://www.artswire.org/, is an New York based online community for artisits.  Current news on art and technology and much more.

The Internet Art Database, http://dart.fine-art.com/, an online art market place. The intent is to create a buyer friendly marketplace where collectors, artists, and dealers alike can participate in a communal environment.

Fiber Resource Pages, http://www.canwine.com/fiber/index.html, has links to many sites of interest to spinners, weavers, and dyers..

Pottery of Seagrove, http://typhoon.coedu.usf.edu/~macdonal/Seagrove/pottery.html, North Carolina's Piedmont region has become famous for the production of traditional hand-crafted pottery and the center of the Piedmont pottery district is the tiny town of Seagrove, NC, where almost everyone in Seagrove (population about 450) is connected with pottery.

• Optical Illusions, http://www.illusionworks.com/, gives a comprehensive collection of optical and sensory illusions.
• Joseph Wu's Origami page, http://www.origami.vancouver.bc.ca/, another extensive site for folding directions for origami figures.
• The Geometry Junkyard, http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/all.html, is terrific for thinking about art and math correlations.

• Comic Arts and Graffix Gallery:  Virtual Museum and Gallery, http://www.comic-art.com/, the definitive reference to the comic world, from it's beginnings in sequential cave painting to today's dynamic media culture.Histories, biographies of artists, writers, creators, publishers and others involved in the field, articles on collecting comics & comic art as well as galleries of comic art & comic book covers/stories.

 

• Pencils, Pencils, Pencils, http://www.pencils.com/index.html, offers an art contest for grades 9-12 and fascinating facts about this common drawing tool.
• Liquitex http://www.liquitex.com/, offers tips and techniques for their products.
• Winsor and Newtown, http://www.winsornewton.com/, offers tips and techniques.

Art Metal Project, http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/edu/arts/metal/ArtMetal.html, aims to disseminate information about various aspects of artistic metalworking and to provide a forum for artists and art lovers to experience this outstanding medium.

• The Art Stie on the World Wide Web, by Margaret McLaughton, http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol1/issue4/mclaugh.html, discusses early digital art  forms (fractiles also) and efforts of museums and galleries to mount web sites.

Graphics

• Computer Graphics, http://mambo.ucsc.edu/psl/cg.html, offers a number of links to many sites and topics of interest to computer graphics artists .
• Desktop Publishing, http://desktoppublishing.com/, a site of over 6000 pages of information about all sorts of graphics programs, how-to's, books ...
• Image Soup, http://home.dti.net/shadow/imagesoup/, a "zine" for computer and art design professionals.
• The Picture Collection, http://www.thepicturecollection.com/, from Time Inc., features "100 years of the best photojournalism."
• The Digital Giraffe, http://www.giraffe.com/, an ezine of digital art.
• Robert Silver's Photomosaics, http://www.photomosaic.com/, is about a technique using a data base of photographs to create larger photomosaic images.

• Animation Nerd's Paradise, http://anp.awn.com/ offers articles, news, cartoons, and an art gallery.
• Communication Arts, http://www.commarts.com/ a zine for animation and graphics.

• NickNacks Telecollaborate!, http://home.talkcity.com/academydr/nicknacks/NNindex.html, offers collaborative projects for schools.
• Mars Millennium Project, http://www.mars2030.net/, is a collaborative art and science project in which  students can participate.

• Art Education and Teaching Art in Primary, Secondary, and K-12 Schools, http://arteducation.co.uk/, offers a look at British Art Education.
• Sandford's Art Education Resource,http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/, offers a number of resources for art education
• Visual Arts Benchmarking, http://www.webproject.org/vabench/, offers rubrics for assessing visual art development.
• The National Standards for Arts Education, "What Every Young American Should Know and Be Able to Do in the Arts," http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/professional_resources/standards/natstandards/standards.html

 

• Closing the Digital Divide, http://www.digitaldivide.gov/, newsletters, speeches, funding opportunities, and news releases.  Focus is the concern of ways to foster access for all children and in education.   This is an important educational issue for the 21st century.
• Education World, http://www.education-world.com/help/index.shtml, is a search engine dedicated to educational sites on the net.
• David Levin's Learning@Websites, http://www.ecnet.net/users/gdlevin/home.html, for curriculum resources.
• The Staff Room for Ontario's Teachers: Rubrics, http://www.odyssey.on.ca/~elaine.coxon/rubrics.htm, offers a number of styles of grading ruberics for many subject areas.
• Northwest Regional Laboratory, Chapter 4 "Grading and Reporting-A Closer Look"  http://www.nwrel.org/eval/toolkit98/chapter4.html, offers a good review of the reasons and needs of grading.
• Interactive Learning Network, http://www.iln.net/html/main/internet_resources/art/art.asp, features an Art Search option.
• School Net, http://k12.school.net/home.html, provides links to school and educational resources.
• Phil's Place, http://mav.net/phil/, has incredible list of links for general educational

interests.

• @rt Room, http://www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/index.html, has lesson plans for ages 8 and up.
• Crayola, http://education.crayola.com/, has lesson plans, product information, etc.
• ArtsEdNet, http://www.artsednet.getty.edu/, offers lesson plans.
• Ken Roar's Incredible Art Room, http://homepage.mac.com/krohrer/iad/links/artstuff.html, lesson plans and more

• The Berkman Center for Internet and Society, http://cyber.harvard.edu/, researches legal issues and the Internet.
• Ethics and the Interenet
• Standford Copyright and Fair Use, http://fairuse.stanford.edu/ Long list of links to sites and articles about copyrights.
• The Copyright Web Site, http://www.benedict.com/focuses especially on Web related issues.
• The Legal Pad, http://www.wiredlaw.com/legalpad.html, Professionals in the entertainment and new media fields use this forum as your bulletin board to post questions, share information with peers about entertainment and new media and ask for  information or assistance from others in the field.

• Art Museum Network, http://www.amn.org/, has exhibition calendars for the world's leading museums and more.
• Museums and the Web, http://www.archimuse.com/mw99/speakers/, has conference papers covering areas of interest to those involved in creating digital collections of research materials.
•  Art Museum Image Consortium, http://www.amico.net/, an association of institutions with collections of art, that have come together to enable educational use of the digital documentation of their collections by building a joint digital library documenting their collections.

• Cyberteens ... where creative teens rule, http://www.cyberteens.com/ctmain.html, is a Web site especially for teens.
• TechnoTeen, http://www.technoteen.com/teen/index.html, is a Webzine for teens.

• American Center for Design, http://www.ac4d.org. ACD's mission is the ongoing education of designers and design consumers.
• American Institute of Graphic Artist,  http://www.aiga.org.
• Association for Art History, http://www.indiana.edu/~aah/, is a professional association dedicated to the study of art history.
• Handweavers Guild of America, http://www.weavespindye.org/
• National Art Education Association, http://www.naea-reston.org/, is the primary professional association for art educators.
• North Carolina Art Education Association, http://www.ncaea.appstate.edu, is alfiliated with NAEA and is the primary professional association for NC art teachers.
• SIGGRAPH is a Special Interest Group of AMC with a  focus on computer graphics - http://www.siggraph.org/
• Burlington-based North Carolina Educational Technology Conference (NCETC), http://www.ncetc.org/, with information cutting across all K-12 content areas, with the focus on computers.

• The International Education Webzine, http://www.iteachnet.com/, offers articles and topics for professional interest.
• Mediamatic, http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/contents.all.html, is an international quarterly about the cultural implications of new media.

• Phil's Place, http://mav.net/phil/, has incredible list of links helpful for job search in education..

• Safe Teens, http://www.safeteens.com/, offers safety tips for teens and other information about the internet and the WWW.
• Yahooligans' Staying Street Smarts on the Web, http://www.yahooligans.com/docs/safety/, gives tips and list of links as well as a message for parents.

Compiled by Roberta Rice (rwrice@uncg.edu),  April 1999,  Updated 20 August, 2001
Many thanks to the students who have contributed links and suggestions in this ongoing project