Title: "Roots of western culture - The ancient roman art".
Purposes:
1-To verify if Internet can promote the student's motivation in curriculum-based item of a course of art history;
2 - To gather data and some kind of assistance from students, teachers and specialists on the subject, fronm schools in different countries;
3 - To provide students with an opportunity to investigate the sources of western culture.
Subjects:Art history, History, Geography.
Number of participants:
Our class of 10th G, "Julio Dantas Secondary School", in Lagos, Portugal, and first ten classes to register their participation.
Grade level of our students: 10th ( it means age about 15-16 ).
Summary:
The ancient roman art
1- Essentials on the etruscan art;
2- Essentials on the roman art through the monarchy,the republic and the empire periods;
3- Essentials of art of romanization. Main aspects of romanization in Portugal;
4- Main aspects of some techniques: pottery, mosaic and "fresco".
Project Coordinator:
Carlos Sanches - Teacher of History and preparing at the moment a master dissertation in "Informatics and Education". This project will be helpfull for him! Personal email address: csanches@mail.telepac.pt
Kinds of participation:
a. Searching for documents, specialists papers, interviews with teachers and other specialists, imaginative interviews with artists of the past;
b. Collecting of some images in the WWW pages or elsewhere, links to WWW pages with data about the ancient roman art;
c. Making photos of monuments existing in your area;
d. ...and everything your imagination could suggest.
Communication:
E.mail - To "Roots" adress: t00338@mail.telepac.pt - Send your participation form by this means.
WWW - In the home page of your school, with previous mailing to the same adress.
Newsgroups - Posting articles in a newsgroup.
How to register:
Your project coordinator and email adress:
Your school: School address ( and email adress)
Your class( number of students, average ages):
Subject:
Kind of participation:
Time Lines:
a. Project registration - until May 12, 1996
b. Research, read and choose - until May 20, 1996
c. Mailing, posting and "webiing" - until June 07, 1996.
d. To our class: June 15, 1996 - Reply to all participating schools with a copy of a Project Report and a special gift of "Aspects of roman presence in Portugal" that our students are preparing.
FINALY: PLEASE ASK YOUR STUDENTS TO PREPARE A SHORT STATEMENT ABOUT WHAT THEY THINK ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN THE CLASSROOM TO DEVELOP CURRICULUM-BASED PROJECTS. PLEASE, SEND ME AN EMAIL TO MY PERSONAL ADDRESS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
Please, email us yours suggestions and comments: t00338@mail.telepac.pt.