At first I became a little frustrated at all the tools that are available online; and not all of them are educationally efficient tools. My search was specifically for web tools to obtain information on Web 2.0 tools involving interactive gaming for students in an Art class. I looked on sites that would help support learning with student to content initiatives. In my research process, I came upon this website through Howcast website at: http://www.howcast.com/videos/307224-Learning-Games-For-Kids Here I watched a video that exposed me to some of the uses on this site. When I came to the page for art educational components, I was disappointed. The games are too short.
From there I was able to go to this site directly and find the main type of site I was looking for that had a cognitive learning curve with additional psychomotor skill development for middle school and elementary students learning art technology. My goal, as an art teacher integrating technology in education, is to present an environment where kids can become integrated into different web environments and explore interactive technology online without creating a stressful environment. The formative assessments will help the teacher and student to become acclimated to the newer assignments given in the classroom. Sites like this have the student explore spatial contiguity (Richard Mayer, 1988), which in a nutshell is the process in which the student sees words and pictures close together to help imbed knowledge streams quicker into the brain.
At the Learning Games for Kids website, you will find an array of helpful interactive games that are colorful, simple and innovative for children. You can find anything from health games, crossword puzzles, math games, science and geographic games to enhance the learning environment. I love the new typing tools. This is great for students/adults who use texting in code and have to remind themselves of context during writing.
This site also offers other sited resources and references to other sites for teachers.
The real game or interactive site that was the most appealing for art was http://www.kids.albrightknox.org/index_launched.html It has a wonderful and colorful introduction. It was a project created for the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo NY. This site brings up a room of choices for the student to research and understand some basic artistic concepts like: still-life, lines and curves found in a paintings by other artist. Juan Gris, for example was an artist featured. He created a still life painting done in a Picasso-like manner. The beauty of this interactive tool was the comparison between modern and classical art forms. You even find out that volleyball is a unique combination of tennis, baseball and basketball- great, concrete information!
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