MW2009 highlights - Day 5

Saturday 18 April

I have started getting really interested in the educational opportunities that the Web offers students and their teachers.

For the past 18 months I have been project manager of the National Gallery of Victoria's Broadband Innovation Fund project (known as 'BIF'), which was funded to create innovative online resources for education audiences using works from the NGV collection.

Today at Museums and the Web, i attended a presentation about ArtsEdConnect is a particularly good example of the power of the Web and its benefits to education audiences. Its presenters claimed 14,000 teachers trained, 1 million users, and 200,000 art collector 'sets' devised by teachers since it launched in 1997. It will be great to see the new redesigned website when it launches on 4 May.

 

Posted in Webby stuff on 04/18/09