TEACHER RESOURCES
To support the scope of these sample general lesson outlines and ideas that allow learners to demonstrate proficiency levels of knowledge, use, incorporation, analysis and evaluation of contemporary technology, this community of learners at the 2000 Governor’s Institute for Arts Educators is providing additional links to human and virtual resources. Virtual resources include links to software, ideas, lesson plans, demo downloads, books and articles.
The subject of monsters can be a sensitive topic for students. Some materials on the Internet that are available might not be suitable for use at certain grade levels. Please be aware of these concerns and screen all sights before their use.
SOFTWARE TOOLS/TECHNOLOGY
Soundbeam - a distance-to-voltage-to-Midi device which converts physical movements into sound by using information derived from interruptions of a stream of ultrasonic pulses.
http://www.soundbeam.co.uk/Magic Theatre - brings the tradition of storytelling into the computer age by enabling children as young as three to make their own animated movies.
http://www.magictheatre.com/mt.htmlLife Forms – allows you to edit character motion, be it keyframed animation or motion capture data. Support for VRML and the main 3D packages and formats.
http://www.credo-interactive.com/products/lifeforms/main.htmlVirtual Light Lab
http://www.future-light.com/VLL/vll.htmlVirtual Lighting Design Lab
http://dolphin.upenn.edu/~pacshop/lab/lab.htmlSonic Foundry Sound Forge
http://www.sonicfoundry.com/Products/newshowproduct.asp?PID=5Notation Station
http://www.notationstation.net/prev/default.aspAdobe Photoshop
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/main.htmlDigital Photo Center
Super Home Suite
http://www.punchsoftware.com/FloorPlan Plus
http://www.e-cdrom.com/e-cdrom/floorplanplu.htmlBallet CD-ROM which demonstrates ballet technique, discusses history
Creative Dance Center
LESSON PLANS
Marvelous Monsters website features classroom activities and lesson plans for teachers about monsters by the Viroqua area schools.
http://www.viroqua.k12.wi.us/teachersites/monsters.htm
Website featuring the Monster Exchange Project. Students try to communicate an original monster image into another child's mind using writing skills and technology. http://www.win4edu.com/minds-eye/monster/index.htm
The Monster Exchange project by Fremont Elementary School. http://intergate.bcsd.k12.ca.us/fremont/index.htm
Art lesson plans for all grades: monsters http://www.theteachersguide.com/Artlessonplans.html
Interdisciplinary lesson plans for teachers http://www3.sympatico.ca/ray.saitz/litera1.htm#monster
ArtsEdge, a wonderful teacher resource center with interdisciplinary lesson plans incorporating technology
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/
MUSEUMS & ARCHITECTURE
The Giger museum: a Swiss surrealist who created and designed Alien.
http://www.hrgiger.com/museum/museum.htm
Site featuring gargoyles/monsters incorporated into architecture in New York. Link to see the Brooklyn Museum as a site to see monsters in their architecture! http://www.aardvarkelectric.com/gargoyle/
The Norton Simon Museum featuring a work of art by Francisco Goya, The Sleep of Reason produces Monsters, 1797-98. http://www.nortonsimon.org/
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston: an example of a fine artwork by Durer, such as The Monstrous Sow of Landser, completed in 1496. http://www.mfa.org/pressroom/durer/durerlabels1.htm
The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.: including fine art that contain monsters by Durer, Goya, Albrecht Altdorfer, etc. http://www.nga.gov/home.htm
Look here: http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/psearch
Smithsonian Museum: more examples of artwork featuring monsters, gargoyles, etc.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: more artwork by Goya. http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/result.asp
The Museum of Unnatural Mystery: strange monsters such as ancient sea serpents, The White River Monster, and the Loch Ness monster.
http://www.unmuseum.org/unmain.htm
The Museum of Modern Art for artwork that contains monsters, such as Chimeras. You can also find information on Surrealism, which features monsters in their artwork.
MUSIC & DANCE
Troika Ranch Dance Theater
http://www.troikaranch.org/index.html
Monster sounds for Halloween
http://www.insidecentralflorida.com/shared/custom/holidays/halloween/monstersounds.html
Notation Station, software for music teachers
http://www.notationstation.com/
Free Music Writing Program and Lessons
Midi files: http://www.bestweb.net/~wallnut/halloween/midis.html
Canvaswerks Favorite Spooky Halloween Midi and Wave Files http://www.canvaswerks.com/spookymidi.htm
Welcome To WAV Place 2- site for sound effects and spooky Halloween sounds
http://www.wavplace2.com/hallow.htm
BOOKS AND ARTICLES
Technology in the Arts Classroom
http://www.east-central.k12.tx.us/echs/artdept/TAEAconference/art_room_tech.htmlTechnology’s Implications for Art Education
http://www.east-central.k12.tx.us/echs/artdept/TAEAconference/implications_tech.htmlFrom Ordinary to Extraordinary, Art and Design Problem Solving by Ken Vieth
Heroes, Gods and Monsters of Greek Myths by Bernard Evslin (Introduction), William Hofmann (Illustrator)
Holy Terrors : Gargoyles on Medieval Buildings by Janetta Rebold Benton
Gargoyles : Monsters in Stones (All Aboard Reading Level 2) by Jennifer Dussling, Peter Church (Illustrator). Paperback
Gargoyles Don't Drive School Buses by Debbie Dadey, Marcia Thornton Jones
Night of the Gargoyles by Eve Bunting, David Wiesner (Illustrator)
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (Illustrator)
IDEAS FOR USING THE INTERNET IN THE CLASSROOM
CyberTours, an electronic extension of Internet for Active Learners: K-12 Curriculum Strategies, by Pam Berger
http://www.infosearcher.com/cybertours/WebQuests: A WebQuest is defined, by Bernie Dodge at San Diego State University, as "an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the Internet."
A WebQuest About WebQuests
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquestwebquest-3-4.htmlMatrix of Example WebQuests
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/matrix.htmlFilamentality – "Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank interactive Web site that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet sites, and turning Web resources into learning activities. It helps combine the "filaments" of the Web with a learner's "mentality"."
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/MISCELLANEOUS
ThinkQuest
Art Rights – a ThinkQuest site about Art as property
http://library.thinkquest.org/J001570/The Encyclopedia of Monsters. This is a great resource for all monsters from many different cultures.
http://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/monsters/monsters.htmWork of art by Francisco Goya, The Sleep of Reason produces Monsters, 1797-98.
http://www.theartcanvas.com/goya.sor1.htm
Gromble’s Monster Art Gallery for students. This site features artwork done by students on monsters. http://www.cooltoons.com/shows/realmonsters/art/artgallery.html
Clip art of monsters. http://www.countryfriends.org/KWClipArtJun.html
Swiss surrealist artist, H.R. Giger. A painter, sculptor, architect and designer, and the creator of the "Alien" lifeforms and their other worldly environment, as seen in the Twentieth Century Fox films. Some material may be unsuitable for younger children. His work has wonderful detail, which is great for high school students. Link to the museum!
Swiss surrealist artist, H.R.Giger. Some material may be unsuitable for younger children.
Variety of animated monsters. http://www.thebestisp.com/~jkmeyer/clipmonsters.html
Information on Greek, Roman, Celtic Art including mythology and monsters!
http://www.loggia.com/myth/chimera.html
Information on gargoyles.
http://ils.unc.edu/garg/garghp4.html
More links to sites about gargoyles. http://www.geocities.com/Paris/2069/garglink.html
An artist who creates gargoyles: Walter S. Arnold
http://www.stonecarver.com/gargoyle.html
Site on Maurice Sendak, Children's book Illustrator, Where the Wild Things Are
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/sendak.htm
HUMAN
