Lesson 8

Lesson 8 ArchiveGrid/ CAMIO

ArchiveGrid would be an interesting source for serious researchers. I found a bid difference in the search results using quotations vs. without them. Even though there is no photo of the artifact in question, the description provided the location as well as several variants of Sitting Bull’s name, which could provide additional search results in this and other databases. The researcher would have to determine if the travel to the various destinations would benefit their project.

 I searched for Eric Carle, as I know that there is a collection of materials at the University of Minnesota. There are also collections at the U of Connecticut and from the publisher. The index is interesting but as there are no images, for someone looking to do serious research it would still be difficult to determine just from this where they may want to spend more time.

CAMIO

I love having access to these images and being able to see the locations where they can be seen. Searching for Paul Revere gave several results for silver service items from spoons to teapots, I only looked on the first few pages but thought it was interesting there were several spoons but no other silverware.

Searching for “sioux’ did not produce any results so I removed the quotes and got a variety of artifacts. Several were clothing articles, pipes, and there were many colored pencil drawings showing daily life and ceremonies from Sioux life.

I couldn’t decide on a favorite so I looked at both Monet and Renoir. Some of the Monet’s had locations in their titles, but the Renoirs were more portraits. Some had names in the titles and subject headings such as ‘children’ but no other background information. It would be nice to have a link to further information on the subjects of the artwork such as if he were commissioned to paint the portraits or if they were of family or friends (although a serious art student would probably have other venues to search for this information)

The favorites is an interesting feature and great for keeping track of the images as you do different searches or navigate through the pages. I like that you can move the images around and save them. I have not tried from home, I am wondering if the images will appear the same when I get somewhere away from the connection at school as it appears to save as a webpage. I think this would be a great feature to use for history lessons as well as art as several Common Core standards refer to using this type of resource.