Category: pedagogy

  • Multi-media teaching site: SmartHistory

    Smarthistory is  “a free multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional art history textbook.”  It was started in 2005 by Drs. Beth Harris and Steven Zucker, who found themselves dissatisfied with traditional survey texts.  They created a series of audio guides to accompany works at the Metropolitan Museum of…

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  • Image collections still available through Luna Insight

    Just a reminder that the California Digital Library still supports Luna Insight, the image hosting and search tool that was tested by the UC campuses a few years ago.  There are several terrific collections  which are not available through ARTstor or other means at this time, for example: The National Palace Museum of Taipei (over…

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