Learning with [Louvre.edu]

Contest
Writing the history of an image: this is your last chance to register for the contest organized by the imaginary image association and the Orleans-Tour education authority.
Louvre.edu offers you the opportunity to select an image and publish its history.

Exhibition news
Max Beckmann, a historical perspective, at the National Centre for Modern Art until 7 January. See this exhibition to study the development of historical painting (on-line teaching dossier) and to compare the treatment of certain mythological themes (Ulysses and the sirens, Ulysses and Calypso etc.) with their representation in antiquity and classical painting.
Manet, Velasquez... Spanish style in the 19th century at the Musée d'Orsay, from 17 September 2002 to 5 January 2003.

Learning to use Louvre.edu
- Using Louvre.edu with student groups: you will find detailed instructions for use on the Versailles education authority website
- A course, offered by the Créteil education authority, to make the most of the teaching potential of the Louvre.edu site.
The choice of the research topic, "the lamb", a religious symbol found in all three of the great monotheistic religions, was the result of the Ministry's decision to teach the "facts about religion in a non-religious educational environment", by drawing on works of art.
It is also included in the history curriculum in "seconde" (fifth form).

- A report on the use of Louvre.edu, at the Guy Môquet middle school in Gennevilliers.

New applications suggested by the schools
Aeneas from Troy to Rome
An iconographic research project prepared by the pupils of several middle schools of the Versailles education authority through their participation in the on-line forum set up by the education authority.
- Literature and painting (cross-disciplinary studies), a new section of the imaginary image site is presenting for its first exhibit, a body of work on the 17th century, based on the theme: the vanities, including a study of "Still life with chessboard" by Lubin Baugin, an interactive preparation for the study of one of Bossuet's funeral orations, etc.
On the same site, the "Portrait of a princess of the Este family" by Pisanello is the inspiration for a piece of fiction.
- Not to be missed: "Bergson visits the Louvre", a site created by the pupils of a class held at the Louvre (fifth form pupils from the Lycée Bergson, supervised by teacher training staff).

[Louvre.edu] offers free access to all middle schools and high schools

All secondary educational institutions have access to this service by using their Louvre user ID and password.
Louvre.edu, which was produced by the Louvre Museum and Pagesjaunes Publishing in partnership with the Ministry of Education, was tested by 325 schools between January 1999 and March 2001.
It provides access to the collections and facilities of the Louvre Museum, including 3800 works of art and a virtual tour of 350 galleries, as well as to a large library of texts: biographies, leaflets (abstracts on a painter, an artistic movement etc., available in the various galleries of the Louvre), notes on works of art, dictionaries etc. Tools (such as index cards) and search functions are provided to make their visit easier.
Each teacher has access to a virtual desktop through which he or she can make selections from the database of art works and documents for individual projects. Their selections can then be accessed from any work station for viewing, reorganizing or use in a course. Teachers can also download their selections to their personal computers and integrate the elements downloaded into a documentary application and make them available to students off-line through the school's own internal network.
They can also create a virtual desktop for student groups involved in projects as a part of diversified programmes and cross-disciplinary studies in middle schools, and guided personal studies and multi-disciplinary vocational projects in high schools.

Click here for a quick look at the contents of this service or to download it.
For the conditions of access to this service: read the technical and teaching notices or download them.

An Edulouvre mailing list has been set up to allow users of the service to communicate amongst themselves, announce their projects and initiate inter-school projects.