Introduction:

Pottery is a huge subject. People have been working in clay from the beginning of modern man. A clay sculpture of a bison was found molded on the walls of a cave in France and dated to 40,000 years ago. The first fired pottery coincides with the advent of civilization around 8000 years ago. Since then people have figured out a lot of different ways of working with clay. You should be able to find an area that interests you.

The object of this webquest is to help you to find information that you can use in your Advanced Pottery paper or presentation. By using this website, you will see some of the possibilities for presentation, get some links to ceramic sites, learn how your project is scored and be reminded of the rules outlined in the school's Acceptable Use Policy.

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The Task:

Your task is to investigate an artist or a medium that relates to pottery and ceramics, and turn your research into a multimedia presentation, or a paper that includes something about the history of the artist or medium. First you will find information on a medium (majolica, redware, mosaics) or a ceramic artist (Maria Martinez, Robert Arneson). Dig around and find some cool stuff.

Next you will want to start to produce a project. Include your insights in the process. Feel free to be creative. (This is an art class) A review of an artist's work with you as the critic, A day in the life of an artist or a walk through a process from start to finish are some examples. You can also turn in a pot or sculpture done in the style of the artist or the medium you have studied for another pottery grade. The paper or presentation is required for all Advanced Pottery students.

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Getting Started: By the second semester you will choose a topic to be researched and get it approved by Mr. Lofving. You should find some books, websites and info about your topic and begin to get an idea of how you'll present it. You can also talk to me about another way of presenting your topic.

 Possibilities include:

 A paper with at least 2 pages of text, 2 images and a bibliography with at least 2 books and 3 websites.

 A power point presentation of from five to ten slides with written information on each one and a bibliography/source list. You need to have some print sources and some websites.

 A website that could be posted that talks about the artist or medium you have studied. Must include at least 2 images and have at least 2 pages of text. Sources must be listed and include some print media as well as websites. Links to relevant websites would be helpful. If it's good enough we'll add it to the school website!

 Resources: These websites will get you started on your search. Don't forget to use the media center for many books on pottery or talk with Ms. Mukai in the computer room. She knows a lot. Don't stop here! Look around and find some other interesting sites and sources.

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Websites:

Raku Pottery:

Raku Museum, Kyoto, Japan

Excellent raku site about a very inspiring teacher and his brilliant students

 Majolica:

Museum of majolica in France

 Mosaics:

 A tile site that has a lot about mosaics and techniques

 Southwest and Mexican Indian Pottery:

A commercial site about Martinez family pottery

 Redware:

This site has info on early american redware potters.

 Funk Ceramics:

Robert Arneson - A gallery of his ceramic art

DavidGilhooly's homepage - his "frogworld" and other fun funkart

 Ceramic Museums and info centers

Alfred University. International Ceramics Museum site

A connection to ceramic art on the web

Critical Ceramics search site

A university site

 Useable Clip Art:

According to Barry, images are non-copyrighted, and free to use.

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You'll be evaluated on 9 criteria worth 10 points each. They include: The overall organization of your presentation/paper, historical info, images you choose, introduction, spelling and punctuation, creativity, interesting facts, conclusions and a bibliography. You'll get 10 points to start with just for putting your name on the project.

	Beginning 0-4	Developing 6	Accomplished 8	Exemplary 10	Score
Overall Organization of your project	Not organized.	Project begins and ends	Well organized with an introduction, body of project and conclusion.	Very well organized with intro, body and conclusion.
Historical information.	No historical info.	Some historical info.	Historical info from a few sources.	Historical info from many sources.
Images	No images.	Some images, but not very well presented or explained	Good images relating to project. Well presented.	Excellent and relevant images well presented
Introduction	No introduction	Introduction doesn't tell us what we're going to find in rest of project.	Intro tells us what we're going to find in rest of project.	Intro tells us what we'll find, and hooks us into the project.
Spelling and Punctuation	Almost every word misspelled and no punctuation	Some misspelled words and poor punctuation	Few misspelled words and good punctuation	No misspelling and excellent punctuation
Creativity	No creativity	Little creativity	Some creativity	Interesting and creative style in presentation.
Interesting Facts	Little or no information	Some facts found in search	Facts relevant to topic found and put in own words	Many facts found and presented in an organized way
Conclusion	No conclusion	Some conclusion	Conclusion wraps up most of project	Conclusion that tells us concisely what was found out
Bibliography	No bibliography	One or two sources, badly cited	Correctly cited list of 6 or more sources.	List of varied sources, correctly cited, including at least 2 books.

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You will investigate a technique, medium or an artist. You'll take what you've learned, include your insights and communicate that to others. You will know more about how people have related to ceramics and how we're continuing traditions thousands of years old every time we pick up clay and start to shape it.

I used an image from Barry's Clip Art in this WebQuest.

You need to credit the sources you use in your project.

Prohibited Use policy from Acceptable Use Policy of MSAD #54

The user is responsible for his/her actions and activities involving school unit computers, networks and Internet services and for his/her computer files, passwords and accounts. Examples of unacceptable uses that are expressly prohibited include but are not limited to the following:

1. Accessing Inappropriate Materials &endash; Accessing, submitting, posting, publishing, forwarding, down-loading, scanning or displaying materials that are defamatory, abusive, obscene, vulgar, sexually explicit, sexually suggestive, threatening, discriminatory,harassing and/or illegal;

2. Illegal Activities &endash; Using the school unit's computers, networks and Internet services for any illegal activity or activity that violates other Board policies, procedures and/or school rules;

3. Violating Copyrights &endash; Copying or downloading copyrighted materials without the owner's permission;

4. Plagiarism &endash; Representing as one's own work any materials obtained on the Internet (such as term papers, articles, etc.). When Internet sources are used in student work, the author, publisher and Web site must be identified;

5. Copying Software &endash; Copying or downloading software without the express authorization of the system administrator;

6. Non-School-Related Uses &endash; Using the school unit's computers, networks and Internet services for non-school-related purposes such as private financial gain, commercial, advertising or solicitation purposes, or forany other personal use;