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Educators Online When you are ready to create your own gallery, you will need to search for artwork. To try the Artworks Search, click on Explore, then click on the Artworks tab.
You can enter keywords such as “claude monet” or “african sculpture” to retrieve items from the MFA’s collection. A classification, such as Textiles, can be selected to further limit your results.
Clicking on the name of an artwork that appears in your search results will take you to the Artwork Detail page.
If you think it is a good fit for your gallery, click Save to My Gallery. Clicking Save to My Gallery from the artwork detail page adds the artwork to your starter gallery (or to whatever gallery you are working on).
You can access your galleries from the “My Galleries” list or from the “My Projects” tab in the site header. If this is a starter gallery, you can change the name of your new gallery to anything you like.
You will begin in Thumbnail View. You can click on the name of the slide to see a slide in detail with Individual Slide View. From the Individual Slide View screen, you can name your slide anything you like, from the name of the artwork to something that expresses key points about this artwork.
Add some educational text about your slide by typing into the “My Text” box. Your text will be saved automatically.
From within a gallery, you can also perform a quick search for Artwork in order to add more items to your gallery. Enter terms in the “All MFA Media” keyword box and click the red button to continue. Your results can be dragged directly into your work-in-progress gallery.
To complete your gallery, you can add text slides (for activities, quotes, lesson content and other information) or even add “Compare” slides to look at two objects side by side. To compare two objects in this way, simply drag an artwork to the left side, then drag another image to the right side.
In addition to text and compare slides, you can add your own media to a slide, from images of artists to video clips from the classroom.
To add your own media, click on the Browse button and use the file browser to find an image on your desktop computer, then click “Add File” to place it on your slide.
If you like, you can attach lesson plans or other supporting materials to the gallery; for example, supplemental reading or in-gallery activities could enhance the slides you collected.
When you are happy with your gallery, you can keep it prvate or share it with the world by making it public. Click the Make Public button to share -- but don’t forget to add Search Criteria first to help others find your gallery. Click the Set Search Criteria tab to classify your gallery by subject or grade.
The public slideshow can be viewed by your students or peers. It will be available in the Explore Galleries section.
View your finished slideshow by clicking View Slideshow from within the gallery. Click on the Back and Next arrows to navigate through the show, or click Autoplay to sit back and watch it in self-running presentation mode.