Lesson 8 Part 3: Camio

Sioux:

The search for “Sioux” in Camio resulted with 63 works. There was a variety of Lakota artworks and artifacts.  The results also resulted in a few non-American Indian related items as well. Primary among them was a writing table. I could not figure out why this was a part of the search results. I even traced it back to the museum the pictures came from.

The results were from a large number of museums. The Smithsonian had large number of items show. There were many clothing items represented in the results. The Double Saddle Bag from the Detroit Institute of Arts was nice example of bead work.

Community use of this resource:

The use for Camio that first occurred to me is for Artist in the School visits. This year we had an artist come in and work with each grade level. She had each grade level imitate a different artist. Camio would have worked really well for this type of activity. The artist would have been able to put together a more extensive presentation for each artist.

Personalizing and Presenting Research

I have a student that is finishing a PowerPoint on Pablo Picasso. That is what I did my search on. There were 1,016 works. I select 10. I compare a couple of his pen and ink drawings. The two images open up in a two page viewer. It was very easy to make comparisons between the two images. For the slide show I used the 10 images. The viewer was easy to use and framed each image to fit the desktop screen. I also made these 10 images into a website.  I saved it to a file but I had a little difficulty using the webpage until I saw the separate webpage icon. The only improvement I could see would be to allow the images to open as a slide show in the web page view.

Common Core Connections

How I would use Camio for “Integration of Knowledge & Ideas” and “Presentation of Knowledge & Ideas” is to search for images that support my curriculum. Early in the year we do genre study. I tried to look for images that would support that. I looked up Brothers Grimm and came up with a book image. Science fiction came up with a couple of images. I think it would require a great deal more searching. The other idea would be to support student research especially if they are studying specific artist. Unfortunately, there isn’t a way to filter out nudes which for younger students would be problematic. To be honest at the elementary level I’m not sure how much I can use this tool other than in a fine art discussion.