The Google Art Project & The 21st Century Classroom

I am a big  fan of Google’s constant innovation and particular their new project which is called the Google Art Project. Their new art project is a collaboration between Google and some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums to digitize art work. Powered by a broad, connected suite of Google technologies, these great works of art and museums are now within reach to an unprecedented global audience. Google is brining their streetview technology into the museums to create 360-degree pictures of 17 world wide galleries and 400 rooms. The Art Project also allows viewers to focus on certain works with extreme high resolution and get into detail that is not visible with the naked eye. 

Google Art Project allows viewers to create their own galleries by saving the works from different museums under one room and make comments on what you found interesting on each piece. The art project has a share feature that allows people to interact with your social media accounts and get interaction from your friends, followers, etc.

The Google Art Project will be bringing the adventure of a  free museum tour to the classroom creating a bountiful learning experience for school kids, art enthusiast, and art majors. It is exciting for professors to have the advantage of transporting kids/young adults to explore museums in Spain, Russia, Italy, and around the world. The art project will give students first-hand interaction with museums by learning where they are located, how the art is organized, notes and media from the museum, and the opportunity for classes to make their own galleries while interacting with the chosen pieces. Hopefully the close interactions will ultimately encourage kids to follow art like the internet has encouraged people to read and ultimately promoting culture.  Interacting with media and in this case art is very important factor of the internet that will allow classes to share their galleries, participate in forums, and exchange opinions which really enhances the learning experience.

The Google Art Project is meeting the modern colorful classrooms of the 21^st century providing virtual museums for classrooms worldwide.

Just a thought,

Divifilio

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