About Arts Online
WHAT
Arts Online is an online community with teaching resources for dance, drama, visual arts, art history, music and drama teachers in primary and secondary schools.
Arts Online is the key professional resource for all arts educators in New Zealand.
It provides free access to:
- Engaging with the Curriculum (2007) resource and key document area
- online teaching resources such as units, lessons, website reviews and links to selected international online teaching materials
- ICT areas that link to software, freeware and digital resources for the arts
- a Teacher Resource Exchange where teachers can upload, share and access teaching ideas and resources
- Interactive Unit Planners (new curriculum and NCEA) where teachers are supported to create, save and download their own units of work with important links to sites, readings and resources
- NCEA planning and assessment resources and links
- professional resources such as online readings, research, case studies
- Student Gallery of student works for sharing and discussing
- Community Artists for Education - CAFE - service featuring artists' profiles in all disciplines and school levels
- links to and promotion of professional partner associations, and arts organisations
- Professional communication through discussion groups for each discipline, for primary and early childhood teachers, and for secondary school arts coordinators
- An online Ask facility through which teachers can have professional and resource questions answered by an expert
- Fortnightly newsletters
- Listings of and links to arts events, conferences, and ongoing arts activities in New Zealand.
WHO
Cognition Consulting Ltd has been contracted by the Ministry of Education to develop Arts Online, in partnership with our partner professional organisations.
Meet the Arts Online Team
FEEDBACK
If you have requests and suggestions about:- the site generally, email the contract director, Phil Coogan or the Project Leader, Maria Lute
- Dance: Patrice O'Brien
- Drama: Nick Brown
- Music: Shane Morrow
- Visual Arts: Sam Cunnane
- Art History: Sally Waanders
- technical issues, email the web developer
USING THE SITE
We welcome input from all Arts educators. You can become an active member of this community by:
- Subscribing to the relevant listservs (discussion group).
- Sending newsletter items to the relevant member of the Project Team. Use it to profile events in your schools and regions.
- Use and contribute to the teacher resource exchange.