Being a huge art history buff, I know that I'm going to incorporate as much art history as I can into my future classroom.
I stumbled upon a great art education blog called Art Is Messy (http://www.artismessy.org/) It's by the wife of the guy who does The Carrot Revolution blog!
Anywho, Art Is Messy lead me to this awesome site: Smarthistory (http://smarthistory.org/). In a nutshell, Smarthistory is an online art history textbook. Pick a work of art from a list of time periods, styles, artists, or themes, and you can hear a conversation about the piece by real art historians. The conversations are causal and understandable, and short enough to not lose the attention of students.
Here is an example of a conversation about Vincent Van Gogh's Self Portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin:
Showing students these conversations on Smarthistory would not only give them the chance to view historic works of art, but would teach them how to talk about a work of art like an art historian.
Two great finds. I could look at the Art is Messy blog all day! There are a lot of great ideas on her blog.
One thing that would be interesting to do is to have your students make a video talking about a piece that they like. They would get introduced to video, or podcasting, and would get in some art history.
The site you shared here is really an interesting way to refresh my art related knowledge- I started to participate in an intellectual quiz every week and I need to refresh my memory on arts- the art pictures are difficult to guess but I am about to change that.
Movers