Online Gallery
Mr. Evenski gratefully acknowleges the source of this
project: Amanda Dahlgern is an art teacher at Canyon Crest Academy in San Diego.
Visit her
class website to see this
project in its original form.
The
subject matter of the original project (and, hence, the content of the examples
below) was art history, with a gallery of paintings by an artist, a biography
of that artist, and explanation why the artist is considered significant, and
discussion of a favorite work.
You may do exactly that project, but you may
also choose another subject for your gallery and adapt it to the format of
the examples. For example, you may choose as your subject a photographer, a
band, a sports team, an art class, a movie, or anything else on which we agree.
You will be making a website that is basically a photo gallery with explanations.
The site will have
- a welcome or home page with a very cool navigation system to the other
pages
- the gallery with small images that
link to bigger versions of at least six pictures,
- the history or biography of your subject (in your own words)
- an explanation of the
significance of your subject (with a significant amount of writing in
your own words),
- and a "favorite" page in which you highlight
your favorite piece or player and discuss why it/he/she is your favorite.
You will, of course, credit your sources of information and images.
You
will create an aesthetically-pleasing and functional website. Visually,
the layout, colors, typefaces, etc. used in the website should be appropriate
to the subject. If you were doing daVinci, you would try to echo the
artist's style or period as much as possible, or at least not detract from
the artist's work and the content of the site. You must create all your own
aesthetically-pleasing graphical layout, navigation, rollovers, animations,
etc. in ImageReady and Dreamweaver.
You will publish this gallery website on the world wide web and present it
to the class.
Examples of wonderful student Art History Online Gallery Projects from Mrs.
Dahlgren's class last year:
And here's the grading rubric for this project.
