Teaching with Images — Tools and Resources
October 25th, 2008
1) ARTstor Your institution must subscribe.
ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. The ARTstor Digital Library is used by educators, scholars, and students at a variety of institutions including universities, colleges, museums, public libraries, and K-12 schools. As of January 2008, approximately 95% of ARTstor’s collections are available for download at 1024 pixels on the long side, while the remaining 5% may be downloaded at 400 pixels on the long side.
In addition, as part of the Images for Academic Publishing (IAP) initiative, select images within ARTstor may be downloaded free-of-charge at very high resolutions for noncommercial use in scholarly publications.
2) NYPL Digital Gallery
NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 600,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.
3) Wikimedia
Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to all. Unlike traditional media repositories, Wikimedia Commons is free. Everyone is allowed to copy, use and modify any files here freely as long as the source and the authors are credited and as long as users release their copies/improvements under the same freedom to others.
4) Flickr Commons
Search by tag.
The power of Flickr groups.
The power of the contextualized image.
IMAGE LIBRARY DATABASES WITH TEACHING TOOLS
1) Luna, Insight: A commercial solution
The Insight® Software Suite’s award winning features empower users to build, manage and share digital collections of any size. Unique to Insight is a rich toolset for working with images, text, audio and video files, PDFs, etc. Complete catalog data accompanies every image, allowing for quick and easy searches across one or many collections.
2) Almagest: Another open source solution — this one developed by Princeton.
3) MDID: An open source solution developed by James Madison University — the application we used for FITDIL (the FIT Digital Image Library)
1) JING
Jing works with Screencast – set up an account there to upload your videos and get links and embed codes.
Click here for Diane Arbus Video made with Jing
Here’s a Jing video embedded in a blog:
An example of an image captured and annotated with Jing:
2) SKITCH
Here’s an example of an image captured an annotated with Skitch:
3) Finetuna
Upload an image or grab a screenshot, annotate it, and email it. Also has a firefox plug-in.
4) Flickr annotations
Merode Altarpiece
Midterm Project
Image Collections
1) Flickr
Click here for an example of teaching with Flickr
Click here for another (more recent) example of teaching with Flickr
2) Voicethread
Click here to try it – click “Sign In or Register” (it’s very quick to set up an account)
Click here for an example of teacher-created content with Voicethread
Click here for another example — using Voicethread for teacher-created content
Click here for student-created content on Voicethread
3) Cozimo
With Cozimo you can collaborate and review images and videos — together in real-time or on your own time. Get feedback from clients and colleagues instantly. Cozimo is the faster, better, simpler way to work.
Cozimo also has a Wordpress plugin — click here to see and try.
5) ProofHQ
ProofHQ is a smarter, easier way to manage review and approval of designs, artwork and documents. It is an online collaboration, proofing and approval tool built specifically for brands, agencies, designers, print and production.
6) Thinkature
With Thinkature, you can create a collaborative workspace and invite coworkers, friends, and colleagues to join you in just seconds. Once inside your workspace, you can communicate by chatting, drawing, creating cards, and adding content from around the Internet. It’s all synchronous, too – no need to hit reload or get an editing lock.
1) Tag Galaxy
2) Oskope
3) picitup
4) PicLens
5) Imagery
6) Cyclops
1) Dipity (Timeline Creator)
Smarthistory in Dipity
2) Fotki – (photo-storage)
An example
Another example
3) Mead Map (concept mapping)
Eastman House
National Gallery of Art
November 7th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Additional image resources allow educators at museums, universities, colleges, and K-12 schools to build image collections without having to worry about subsriptions running out (the ARTstor model).
Large (3000 x 2000), high quality images from museums and sites around the world are available to license on an as needed basis.
Check out http://www.davisartimages.com as an example.
March 17th, 2009 at 8:50 am
Thank you very much very nice article
Great information! Very useful for me. Thanks a lot.