Media Arts Resources
Sarah Ritz Swain – Director of Visual Arts
Grades K-12 • Westbrook School Department
Unit: Digital Media Basics: Toolkits for Arts Teaching & Learning
Description: This external website is design for both student and teacher to work side-by-side on New Media projects. The interactive pages include how to videos, projects descriptions, and basic information on the topics:
Description: This external website is design for both student and teacher to work side-by-side on New Media projects. The interactive pages include how to videos, projects descriptions, and basic information on the topics:
- Teacher Website Creation
- Student Website and Portfolio Creation
- Blogging for Teachers
- Blogging for Students
Unit: Social Media/Micro-Blogging
Description: Micro-blogging is a blogging medium that differs from traditional blogging in content and scale. Typically smaller in file size, microblogs, "allow users to exchange small elements of content such as short sentences, individual images, or video links" more frequently. Traditional blogging focuses on broad themes, such as “Art Education” and often communicate with readers through summaries of what HAS happened or what WILL happen. While microblogging allows bloggers to communicate about topics happening in real time (in other words: what IS happening.) Microblog topics range from the simple, such as "what is happening right now," to thematic, such as live events.
Description: Micro-blogging is a blogging medium that differs from traditional blogging in content and scale. Typically smaller in file size, microblogs, "allow users to exchange small elements of content such as short sentences, individual images, or video links" more frequently. Traditional blogging focuses on broad themes, such as “Art Education” and often communicate with readers through summaries of what HAS happened or what WILL happen. While microblogging allows bloggers to communicate about topics happening in real time (in other words: what IS happening.) Microblog topics range from the simple, such as "what is happening right now," to thematic, such as live events.