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ArtsConnectEd is an interactive Web site that provides access to works of art and educational resources from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Walker Art Center for K-12 educators, students, and scholars. Art Finder, ArtsConnectEd’s searchable environment, is where users can browse the museums’ digitalized items including Works of Art, Texts, Audio and Video, and Interactive Resources. Art Collector empowers users to save, customize, present, and share items in Art Collector Sets.
In 1997 the MIA and WAC received joint funding from the state of Minnesota to digitize and integrate the collections and education resources of both museums. The original ArtsConnectEd launched in 1998, winning a Best of the Web Educational Site from Museums and the Web and a Gold Muse Award from the American Association of Museum’s Media and Technology Committee in the spring of 1999.
With additional funding from the state of Minnesota, the Education Committee began to explore strategies for training teachers to use ArtsConnectEd through a train-the-trainer model, based on one lead trainer developing a highly skilled core group of teachers from around the state, who would in turn conduct teacher workshops in their regions. To date, more than 3,500 K-12 and pre-service teachers have participated in workshops focusing on the effective classroom use of ArtsConnectEd. During fiscal year 2008, ArtsConnectEd had over 2 million unique user sessions.
ArtsConnectEd is written in PHP using the Symfony Web framework. We have used open source tools and packages wherever possible to support our development, and the project would not have been possible without the hard work that went into these tools. Here, then, is a partial list of software we've used in ArtsConnectEd, along with a huge "thank you" to the authors.
The project to improve ArtsConnectEd was funded by an Institute of Museum and Library Services National Leadership grant. The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the primary source of federal support for the nation’s 122,000 libraries and 17,500 museums. The Institute's mission is to create strong libraries and museums that connect people to information and ideas.
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Walker Art Center
Pamela Caserta
Assistant Registrar
telephone (612) 375-7608
e-mail pamela.caserta@walkerart.org |
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04 February, 2010 03:10 |
| Site Title: |
ArtsConnectEd |
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Annual Celebrations, Fairs, & Festivals |
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Art Collector
- Arts
- Artsconnected
- Connect
- Library Services
- Minneapolis Institute
- Museum’s Media
- Original Artsconnected
- Technology Committee
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