Virtual Renaissance

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Dellecave Educational Institute of Professional Development/ Ronkonkoma

Virtual Renaissance

Instructor Janice McLachlan

3 Graduate Credits/ 45 Hours

Course Description/ Objectives:

This online course will take teachers back in time on a virtual journey to study the classical Art period known as the Renaissance. Teachers will experience a Rebirth of online educational resources, motivating learning experiences, environments and creative activities that make cross-curricular connections with the Arts, E.L.A., Mathematics, Social Sciences, Science, Technology, and Foreign Language. Teachers will become Renaissance learners for the ultimate virtual quest of knowledge.

Syllabus/ Course Objectives:

Students will be provided with a wide variety of online Renaissance Art experiences to integrate into their individual curriculum area. Each week the instructor will correspond with students via email on assignments published on the course web created pages. Students will also correspond by email with the instructor through a collective Journal of Experiences that they choose to complete and research. These assignments will meet State and National Learning Standards based upon online resources visited during the course. Students will choose assignments based upon individual learning styles, and curriculum needs. All assignments have been published on this site. Students are encouraged to submit assignments in a timely fashion so they may receive appropriate feedback reflections by the instructor.

Course Requirements:

In-service Students: will submit a Reflective Journal of Experiences based upon 10 virtual assignments published by the instructor on Assignments Pages 1 and 2. Students will the use the Internet to find and research interactive ways to include the Renaissance Art and Technology into their curriculum. Each reflective essay should be a page in length. Students will visit the course web page and select 10 out of a series of creative projects to submit to the instructor as a Word attachment, a scanned or digital JPEG, or via e-mail during the duration of the course. The Instructor will correspond with the student as coursework is submitted. Each week the instructor will send a message to the group including projects of interest to the learning experience of the group.

Graduate Students: will complete In-service requirements, plus two additional assignments outlined on the Graduate page of this web site.

Always send an e-mail assignment or attachment with your full name and assignment number so I can easily find it if I have to refer back to it, for example: John Smith, Assignment 17

Online Resources:

http://www.renaissanceconnection.org/

http://www.renaissanceconnection.org/lessonplans.html

http://www.msu.edu/~cloudsar/nrweb.htm

http://www.wga.hu/index1.html

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/raphael.html

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/michelangelo_buonarroti.html

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/botticelli_sandro.html

http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/Renaissance/help.html

http://www.thais.it/scultura/rinascim.htm

http://www.nga.gov/collection/adoration.htm