CREATING ON-LINE CLASSES USING THE WORLDIMAGES DATABASE

Dr. Kathleen Cohen

CSU IMAGES Project cohen@sjsu.edu

SOURCE FOR ILLUSTRATED COURSES & PAPERS Art & Art History Anthropology &

World Cultures K-12 courses:

California Educational Standards

Ethnic & Gender Studies; Humanities

Languages & Literature

Political, Cultural & Military History

Theater, Music & Dance

Visual Literacy, etc

SAMPLES OF DELIVERY MECHANISMS

Powerpoint: Most popular. Comes with Microsoft office. Use with WorldImages: http://csuimages.sjsu.edu/gallery/tutorials/present/index.html

Almagest: An open-source multimedia database for lecturing and learning hosted by Princeton University. http://www.princeton.edu/~almagest/opensource/

SAMPLES OF DELIVERY MECHANISMS

Blackboard: Proprietary online learning environment . See http://www.blackboard.com/

Desire2Learn: Proprietary online learning system with Learning Object Repository. See http://www.desire2learn.com

SAMPLES OF DELIVERY MECHANISMS

Pachyderm: Open-source multi-media authoring system. See http://pachyderm.nmc.org/

Media Works: Mutimedia authoring system. See http://www.mediaworkssoftware.com

Adobe Creative Suite. Web Premium: Professional tools for creating multimedia. (Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Premier, Illustrator & Flash) http://www.adobe.com/products

SAMPLE COURSE MATERIALS

http://worldimages.sjsu.edu/kiosk/arthistory_courses.htm

STUDENT COLLABORATVE COURSE

Instructor assigns general topics Student groups do subtopics Group members combine different talents :

Design, Computer skills, Subject matter

Visual literacy assignments Find four references to books & periodicals in the

local library, two in the Library of Congress, one in a foreign on-line library

Search the Web and locate three sources Write an annotated bibliography of research

findings Present the best and worst websites discovered

& state why

Locating Images Learning About Copyright

Instructor gives brief talk on copyright, including fair use & Creative Commons

Students search WorldImages &Web for appropriate images

They must get copyright permission

Basis of Grade

Team Presentation of Digital project Students keep activity log Students evaluate themselves & other team

members

USING WORLDIMAGES HTTP://WORLDIMAGES.SJSU.EDU use over 70,000 images on web: free

for educational use license large high-resolution images for

class projection at very low cost