Lesson 8 ArchiveGrid and Camio

ArchiveGrid

1. I learned that Sitting Bull's birthdate is not sure.  A ? is used with the date. 
     He was also known as Tataanka lyotake or Tatanka and that he was greatly opposed on several occasions.
     He was in the Battle of the Little Bighorn and he greatly opposted white man.  After the Little Bighorn he moved his tribe to Canada.
     After he surrendered he was in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show. 
     He was finally killed when he refused to abondon the ritual Ghost Dance which had been outlawed.
    
Information about Sitting Bull can be obtained from Cornell University Library and it give a complete call number and tells me about the collection from which the information comes. 

2. Because I like to compare all of these databases I put in Johannes Kepler again.  I was pleased to come up with 23 articles.  Upon looking at them a lot of them were letters and manuscripts that Kepler had with other scientists. 
  The articles were housed in many different places. 
   Pierpont Morgan Library
   Smithsonian Institution
   Harvard University
   Getty Rsearch Institute had a videorecording (14 min)
   Huntington Library
   University of Nevada, Reno  the article took me to their homepage
   Princeton University also got their homepage.

It seems like you would really have to be doing an indepth study of the subject matter to use this source because you have to contact the place that houses the material and request the document from them.  With it not offering a full text it makes it more difficult than some of the other sources. 

Camio

1. There were 35 articles shown. Some were pictures of Paul Revere done by other artists, but there were a lot of his silversmith objects.  Much of the collection is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. I did find one painting "The Boston Massacre" that listed Paul Revere as the artist.  There was also one peice of the silversmit found in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. When I clicked on the object the photo was great.  It Showed so much detail in this very beautiful peice.  As you went down the entry it listed who had donated the object and also the collection that it is found in.  There are many lovely peices. 

2. This was an interesting grouping. There were many kinds of mediums used.  I found sculputre, Costume and Jewelry, Textiles, Photos, Prints and many paintings.  Some of the paintings has artists listed but many times it just said Sioux.  Some were listed as books which was also interesting.  The major places that held the items were the Smithsonian, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the Detroit Institute of Arts.  There were a few peices in other museums also.  They were very interesting peices. 

3. I put in Grandma Moses just to see what would come up.  I got one entry and found her name.  Then I tried it again with her name.  I got the same picture again.  It is found in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.  There was only one thing avaiilable.  I thought there might have been more, so it was interesting. 

4. We no longer have art taught in our schools so it could be a good resource if classroom teachers want to teach about artists without having a lot of book available. 

5. I put in Van Gogh this time and came up with 48 works.  It was fun to play around moving things.  I liked the Zoom in and Out.  It was interesting to watch the paint strokes and how alike they were in some of the pictures.  Seeing things up that close was a nice experienc.  It would be a nice way again for a teacher to set up some lessons showing these paintings in a slideshow or to really look at them up close.  I could see this being used as a program for a service club.  Bring in the members, open the computers and let them go on a tour of an artist.  There are just so many things available in these databases that people do not know about.  I had never been to this database either and could really spend a lot of time here.