ITT Students' World Wide Web Workshop · Harton School

• Click on the link GCSE Subjects, which leads to the NEAB website. We are going to find out what the Art and Design email address is.
• Click on Art and Design. You will find the Art and Design email address at the top of the web page.
• Find out a syllabus number for the GCSE Art Syllabus. You may have to scroll down the page.

2. Useful Websites

• Return to the Art Page. Assess the relevance of the teaching ideas, lesson plans, worksheets and resources on offer for Art teachers on the two links Teaching Ideas for Primary Teachers and Educate the Children.

• Return to the Art Page. The Art Education and Teaching Art website is billed as "full of ideas about teaching art for teachers, and students in primary, secondary and K12 schools." Do you agree about the quantity of material featured? What about its quality?

• Return to the Art Page. Anglia Multimedia's Art: Teaching Resources offers a number of links to other websites of interest to teachers of Art. The links are age-categorised. Once again, how appropriate is this website, or its links, to your own Art teaching?

• Return to the Art Page. Art Museums contains links to the websites of many famous art galleries and museums. Select one museum's website, e.g. the Tate Gallery in London or the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. Has the site a role in the Art curriculum?

• Return to the Art Page. The All Clip Art Site features a large number of graphics sites offering free clip art. How useful might this website, and its resources, be in your Art teaching?

• Return to the Art Page. The portal Art and Special Educational Needs links to a number of sites offering resources and strategies for learners with difficulties and impairments. How useful might the links be in your Art teaching?

• Return to the Art Page and click on the Google link. Use Art as your keyword. How many hits were there? Print out the first page of hits.
• Now try out Yahoo, typing Art into the box. How does Yahoo present search results?
• What are the advantages and the disadvantages of each of these search engines?

• Return to the Art Page. If you had the Internet up and running, would you be able to locate and use a web resource in your teaching? Could you set your students a task which they might complete by referring to a web page or website?
• The Teacher Training Agency has published Initial Teacher Training (ITT) National Curriculum for the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in subject teaching: Exemplification materials. Access their ICT exemplification materials page and find out how to obtain the materials for Art.

 © D. R. Wilson · 2002