T8- Video Resources

I used quite a few short video resources in Art with my students last year. I would often play one at the start of class as students were getting situated and their materials out to begin working. They varied depending on what we currently working on, maybe a short 4 minute clip on an artist, or on a certain art technique, or whatever else we might currently be studying. Most of the videos I used were just to give my students extra exposure to various aspects of the art world. These were more of an optional thing for the students, they were welcome to watch them or get started working. For more important videos, we'd wait to begin working on the art projects til after the short clip was over (as well as any additional conversation about it).

My Rice Geophysical Field Work Class on the News

Short Article Accompanying the Fox 26 Video


ABC News: History Being Unearthed in Prairie View


Art Curriculum Related:
Our first major unit was cave art.
Cave Art Short

We did a short mini-project looking at Mondrian in the spring.
While a bit sparse on information, I thought the video was a cute
way to give some exposure to the development of his style over time.
Mondrian Video

The embedded videos don't load properly on the iMacs in the computer lab :(
I'll have to provide a text link to the video later. Also, these videos are from youtube, and its important to note that youtube videos can not be accessed from student accounts, so watching them requires a teacher to login. Not that students should be able to access youtube, too much of youtube is devoid of anything intelligent.

These are not the only videos I used on these topics. There were two other short videos we watched on Mondrian at the start of classes, and quite a few on cave art. On some occasions I'd also play them at the end of class as students were cleaning.

This also gave students who finished cleaning early something to focus on. As the students were often multi-tasking while the videos were playing, they were not used as the primary vehicle for content, but rather just extra content and info they could watch or listen to while working. If I felt a particular video was important for the lesson, and not just extra exposure I'd have the students wait to get started until after the video (or clean up early to watch it).