Title

Folkvine.Org: Exploring Arts-Based Research And Habits Of Mind

Abstract

Follow a virtual back road to a visitor's center to learn about Florida folk artists. Folkvine.org marries folklore, folk art, arts education, and technology through rich, accessible, and compelling media. Over a period of four years- with the support of seven grants-faculty and students from the University of Central Florida (UCF) worked with artists and their communities to create individual postcard Web sites of ten different artists (or groups of artists), four tour guides, several podcasts, and two curricula. Although the product is primarily a Web site (http://www.folkvine.org), the project also included public events and scholarly publications and presentations. This chapter 1) briefly describes the Web site and the team's arts-based research approach, 2) explores the practice of using Folkvine.org in an elementary classroom based on three of the Harvard University Project Zero's eight Studio Habits of Mind, and 3) describes ways-based on working with this rich and varied Web site-folk art and folklore can enrich teachers' and students' learning experiences. © 2011 by The Utah State University Press. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

12-1-2011

Publication Title

Through The Schoolhouse Door: Folklore, Community, Curriculum

Number of Pages

151-167

Document Type

Article; Book Chapter

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

84903414694 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84903414694

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