MySpace or Yours: Shifting Perspectives at the Nexus of Art Museum, Student Writing and the Web

Highlighting art museum tour experiences of the 2008 Carnegie International exhibition "Life on Mars" and focusing on student writing they inspire, Brian Lenosky, Jordan Crosby, and Charles Youngs shared observations, strategies, and speculations on how online blogs and podcasts are shifting student and teacher voices in personal and critical response to aesthetics as 21st century forums are integrated at the nexus of art museum, English classroom, and the Web. You can read what other teachers are doing and start a classroom blog of your related to the exhibition on Carnegie Museum of Art's website.

Life on Mars, the 55th Carnegie International, on exhibition until January 2009 at Carnegie Museum of Art, will serve as an evocative thematic and spectacular visual backdrop for this timely discussion of the "intimate immensity" of the Web and the simulacre of spaces created in classrooms, museums, and online. How do we think of online writing? How do our students?

Presenters: Jordan Crosby, Program Specialists for School and Teacher Programs, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Brian Lenosky,English Teacher & Technology Coach, Bethel Park High School, Pittsbugh; Charles Youngs, English Teacher & Curriculum Facilitator, Bethel Park High School, and Educational Consultant to Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.

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OUR SPACES ON THE WEB
Carnegie Museum of Art www.cmoa.org
Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International http://blog.cmoa.org
Schools & Teachers- Life on Mars http://blog.cmoa.org/schools_teachers
Bethel Park: Life on Mars Blog http://blog.cmoa.org/classrooms/bethel_park_life_on_mars

YOU'RE INVITED TO VISIT LIFE ON MARS with your students.
Sign-up in advance for a classroom blog and have your students participate in this year's Carnegie International. It's easy!

HAVE YOUR STUDENTS WRITING ONLINE IN NO TIME!
Visit Classroom Resources and sign up for a private or public space for your students to explore the exhibition online and join the conversation in your classroom blogspace. Carnegie Museum of Art's education and tech teams will create a special place on the website for you and your students, free of charge. Find out how at http://blog.cmoa.org/schools_teachers/classroom-resources.php/.

You'll find everything you need for your students to begin writing in response to the online exhibition. Plus, you can check out the teachers' Ideas & Update blog for lesson ideas.

THE 2008 CARNEGIE INTERNATIONAL - May 3, 2008 through January 11, 2009
The Carnegie International is the oldest exhibition of international contemporary art in North America, and the second oldest in the world. The exhibition continues to enrich the museum's permanent collection and inspire a dialogue about social and aesthetic concerns. The current exhibition hosts more than 200 works from nearly 40 artists, representing contemporary art. See the works with your students through a school visit or online at http://blog.cmoa.org.