Interactive
Technology and an Image Database in Teaching Art History
Professor
Nick Cahill
UW-Madison, Department of Art History
Professor
Nick Cahill and the Department of Art History at UW-Madison
have created a database of digitized high-quality images
for use in on-line syllabi. The flexibility of the
database allows professors to customize their courses
according to their own instructional needs as well as
incorporate information from other internet sources to
enhance their course material.
Teaching
Art History as Distance Education
Patricia Briggs, Lecturer
UW-Stout, Department of Art and Design
Patricia
Briggs at UW-Stout taught a distance education course
in modern art history during 1997-98. She used video
and audio in her course and has commented on how this
new technology format, in comparison to traditional slide
projectors and viewing screens, required her to change
her teaching methods. For example, she can no longer
compare two images side-by-side on one viewing screen,
and her use of gestures to highlight the images has also
become meaningless in a classroom where the instructor
is not physically present.