Bring the Museum to You!
Using Google’s Cultural Institute in Your Classroom
INTRODUCTION
My name Sean Eichenser
Twitter: @MrEichenser
Don’t forget the hashtag #cpstech
and @CPSTechTalk
8th Grade ELA Teacher @ Smyser Elem.
seichenser@cps.edu
ICE-CAP
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AUTHENTICITY
We, as teachers/librarians, we are constantly searching for...
in the sources and materials we give our students.
What IS Google: Arts and Culture?
Some Caveats:
G:A&C does not filter or “safe search” meaning students could explore images outside the scope of your assignment(s). However, it is all in an artistic context. | |
G:A&C is technically still “in beta” which means some of these features work intermittently. Not often, but enough for it to glitch during a lesson. | |
For obvious reasons, digitized versions of the art cannot be saved, or inserted into slide decks/word documents (although there are ways around this.) | |
Site Navigation
G:A&C is not an “app” like Keep or Docs. The front page contains ever-changing daily features, such as a “Daily Digest”, artist summaries and virtual explorations.
Site Navigation
The “real” homepage of G:A&C, shows you curated collections, 360 tours, categories, and popular topics.
Gives you museums around your current location. Selecting a museum lets you see all the exhibits from that museum Google has rights for.
Your personal “hub” for G:A&C. Collections/items you’ve favorited, as well as self-curated galleries you’ve put together.
Site Navigation
Google has partnered with hundreds of museums and cultural sites to bring its artwork to you. Have a specific museum in mind? Start here.
Projects are curated pages along a theme, event, holiday, or time period. Building a unit around street art? Democracy? Day of the Dead? Start here.
Google uses all of the metadata to run “experiments” with the various exhibits, we will return to this fun feature in a few minutes.
Exploring Collections:
All / A-Z / Map
Site Navigation
Speaking of metadata…
Google is awesome at search.
Anatomy of an Artifact
The Share Button:
- Google Classroom
Title of the work,
Artist, Year created
Name of Partner or Institution
Plus this icon means you can view this artifact while virtually “walking” around the museum!
The Favorite Button:
add artifact to your personal collection
Materials used, physical dimensions and more can be found below the artifact!
Anyone recognize the painting?
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
Some art is mural size, or incredibly tiny, Google allows you full zoom capabilities on thousands of artifacts.
Search for this painting, try it out! See how close you can get. Better than you could get in any museum with the naked eye.
Now, go through the entire website and select 5-6 of your favorite pieces of art...
Creating a Gallery (1 of 3)
There is no “Add to Collection” button!
You have to build a collection from your favorites
Step One:
“Favorite” the artifact
Step Two:
View your profile
Creating a Gallery (2 of 3)
Step Three:
From your profile, click the “+” symbol in the bottom right corner
Step Four:
Select the artifacts you want included in your gallery,
then click
Creating a Gallery (3 of 3)
Important Step
In order for your students to view/access your collection, you’ll need to set it to “Public”.
Some Possible Applications
Daily Writing Prompts
DBQ - Document Based Questions
Evidence-Based Timelines
Character Profiles
Virtual Field Trips
BreakoutEDU Hints
...and more!
BACK
TO
EXPERIMENTS
G:A&C + CCSS
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.7
Analyze the extent to which a filmed or live production of a story or drama stays faithful to or departs from the text or script, evaluating the choices made by the director or actors.
RL.8.9
Analyze how a modern work of fiction draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths, traditional stories, or religious works such as the Bible, including describing how the material is rendered new.
There’s a focus on:
collaboration, comparing and contrast,
finding links between texts,
(both print and visual)
X Degrees of Separation
Using machine learning, it can detect similarities and build a “visual bridge” between two works of art.”
You can give your students the ability to critically think about art and culture in a way they could never do before on their own.
X Degrees of Separation
Higher Order, DOK 3 and DOK 4 Questions:
Why do you think the machine placed those two works near each other?
What is similar about these two depictions?
What is different?
Why might two different artists represent this subject in a similar way?
What does it tell us about the subject?
LIFE Tags
Google has worked with LIFE Magazine to tag and sort the entirety of its photo collection.
Mostly helpful to see what items looked like (hat, microscope, airplane) rather than people or time period
Art Palette
Show your students yet another connection between art all over the world
AUTHENTICITY
We, as teachers/librarians, we are constantly searching for...
in the sources and materials we give our students.
Questions?
Open Q&A
FEEDBACK
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Twitter: @MrEichenser
Don’t forget the hashtag #cpstech
and @CPSTechTalk
P.S. If you’d like to try out G:A&C on a Google VR viewer, hang back after the presentation!
Thank you so much for attending!
CREDITS
Special thanks to all the people who made and released these awesome resources for free: