PALATINE

A New Web-Based Resource for Performing and Creative Arts Higher Education

Site of the Month 06/07

PALATINE is pleased to announce the launch of PRISM: an interdisciplinary learning website for the performing and creative arts. The website URL is prism.palatine.ac.uk.

PRISM allows lecturers and students in the subject areas of dance, music, theatre, art, architecture & design, and film to view and assemble collections of exemplar works from some of the influential art movements of the ‘modern’ period in Europe and the United States. Works, productions and artefacts are grouped by movement (or ‘ism’).

Exemplars are contributed by subject specialists. Each is accompanied by a rationale that includes examples of how the work might be used in learning and teaching across the creative and performing arts.

An important part of the PRISM website is the collections area, where it is possible for users to assemble and save thumbnail images of and links to the works along with their own teaching materials. These combinations can be shared with user-selected groups or published as part of PRISM.

PRISM welcomes new suggestions for exemplar works at any time. To suggest a resource, please go to the ‘contribute’ area of the website prism.palatine.ac.uk/resources/suggest_work.

The PRISM project was developed as part of the JISC/Higher Education Academy Distributed e-Learning programme, which focuses on the cultural issues and subject differences surrounding embedding e-learning technologies.