Walker Art Center

The Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts will continue their strong partnership in a project to enhance and provide access to their ArtsConnectEd Web site. The first version, created in 1998, has been very successful, but now new technologies and new needs have created an opportunity to enhance the service this Web site already provides. This improvement will permit the site to be a dynamic, open source, site that allows the educators to create and manage the content of the educational material and respond more directly to teacher needs. Teachers have expressed a strong desire for the resources and flexibility to revise the content as their classroom needs change. There will be a project report as well as a project blog. In addition, online seminars will be held for museum professionals to learn how to create or replicate features that are of interest for their own institutions.