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Kay Kok Chung Oi
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Date Posted: 06:23:23 11/02/07 Fri
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Faye Powe
's message, "Award-Winning George Catlin Web Site" on 11:28:22 10/27/03 Mon
I think it is an amazing web site to enhance learning experiences among teachers and students. Since technology gives us the accessibility to attain information, I am wondering if this website can hyperlink to other museums in other countries. This is because teachers can use such resoures as a base for students to conduct comparative studies in culture from different countries and perhaps to create an online lesson plan with such resources. Just a thought.
>Award-Winning George Catlin Web Site is a Key Resource
>for
>Lewis and Clark Bicentennial
>
>Web site: http://CatlinClassroom.si.edu
>
>
>Teachers and students only:
>Faye Powe (202) 275-1583
>
>"Campfire Stories with George Catlin: An Encounter of
>Two Cultures," a Web site created by the Smithsonian
>American Art Museum and debuted to great acclaim last
>fall, is targeted to teachers and students in grades
>5-12. It is designed to present different
>perspectives on issues related to Catlin’s art and
>life as well as commentary on American Indian
>concerns. It has received rave reviews
>internationally from educators and students. A
>middle-school teacher wrote, “This site is incredible.
> I am so excited to use it with my English students!”
>“I just found your Web site,” wrote a teacher from the
>Virgin Islands. “It is incredible, wonderful. WOW.
>Can’t wait to share it with other teachers and our
>students.”
>This richly layered site includes virtual campfire
>discussions moderated by naturalist and writer Peter
>Matthiessen; commentary from Native American writers
>and leaders such as Wilma Mankiller, William Least
>Heat-Moon and W. Richard West; and primary source
>materials including George Catlin's journal.
>Resources include more than 450 Catlin paintings,
>activities and lesson plans, a digitized version of
>one of Catlin's sketchbooks, and various photographs
>and maps. Site content was developed to meet national
>curriculum teaching standards in history, geography,
>visual arts, English language arts, and science for
>grades 5–12.
>The site also serves as an interdisciplinary resource
>for teachers celebrating the Lewis and Clark
>Bicentennial, a commemoration of the 200th anniversary
>of the historic journey by explorers Meriwether Lewis
>and William Clark. Catlin met and painted Clark and
>spent two years based in St. Louis, occasionally
>accompanying Clark to treaty-making councils. From
>St. Louis, Catlin journeyed northwestward to the
>boundless prairies described by Lewis and Clark as
>well as by the artist. Catlin painted some American
>Indian villages where Lewis and Clark had been
>entertained a quarter of a century earlier. He also
>visited with and painted Black Moccasin, an aged
>Hidatsa chief, who recollected meeting Lewis and Clark
>on their historic journey.
>Teachers and students in the larger metropolitan areas
>of Kansas City, Los Angeles, Houston, and New York
>City will have a special opportunity to view in person
>more than one hundred paintings of Plains Indian life
>by Catlin when the exhibition “George Catlin and His
>Indian Gallery” travels to those cities. After
>opening at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas
>City, Mo. (Feb. 7–April 18, 2004), the exhibition
>travels to the Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los
>Angeles (May 9–Aug. 4, 2004), The Museum of Fine Arts,
>Houston (Oct. 10, 2004–Jan. 16, 2005), and the
>Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian,
>George Gustav Heye Center, New York City (Feb. 26–Aug.
>7, 2005).
>The Web site has won two distinguished awards. It is
>the American Association of Museums 2003 Gold Medal
>Winner of the MUSE Award in Art. It also was named the
>Best Educational Web Site for 2003 by Museums and the
>Web. At the 2003 South by Southwest Interactive
>Festival, the site was a finalist in the educational
>resource category. "We are very proud to be
>recognized by such prestigious organizations," said
>Elizabeth Broun, the Margaret and Terry Stent Director
>of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. "The Catlin
>Web site continues the Smithsonian American Art
>Museum's long tradition of creating educational tools
>and our national commitment to online learning."
>The MUSE Award judges commented, "Across the board,
>this is an excellent application of technology in the
>context of art interpretation and education," while
>the Museum and the Web judges stated, "The interactive
>component, which plays a major role in any educational
>process, seems here to be at its highest development."
>Visit the award-winning Web site at
>CatlinClassroom.si.edu
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