Monday, November 14, 2011

APPS

     Ok, so I got this app about a year ago, but it is without a doubt the most informative app I know of!  It is probably the definitive app on the Louvre and the thousands of works of art at the museum.  It only has a small percentage of the works of art at the museum stored on the iPod itself, but that's still thousands of images, as well as captions for them.  The more famous works have additional information about the artists, the styles they worked in, the time period and much more.
     Ok, so as far as using it educationally, for those kids in your AP art history class, you could have them download the app (free!) and use it as a review tool, because the works of art and the artist are arranged on the screen in a way that makes it easy to cover either one or the other up, kind of in a flash cardy sort of way.  It's a great place for information if you need a quick fact, date, or even for like a bell quiz, or for quizzing before the bell rings.

Annotated Videos!

I REALLY enjoyed this project.  I took it a little crazy in fact.  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-YWQQjKBsw
so turns out that the video has to have some sort of educational application, so I downloaded a preview for an american tale, Fieval Goes West, and annotated it to highlight the themes of the film in terms of their attributes that reflect American Exceptionalism, Manifest Destiny, and westward expansion in 19th century America.  This helps the kids to pull what I see out of a video, and it gives me a chance to infuse what I want them to be thinking about while they watch something without pausing and explaining.  I also get a chance be funny..  Because you have to be funny.  or else nobody's going to pay attention.  Anyway, the annotation stuff works for any video you want to upload, on any subject.  I really enjoyed it.  Here's the educationally annotated vid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqEvZIh4k64