No longer are assignments destined for the recycling bin. The museums, Knowles says, help cement students' learning as they return to it again and again. They're starting to care a lot more about the quality of the work they produce. Another incentive is the audience. The museums are public places.
Students can wander in and view their classmates' creative and intellectual efforts.
Awards will be presented for the most outstanding exhibits. In yet another community outreach, Knowles hopes to link the virtual museums to an actual museum, Maryhill Museum of Art, which graces a windswept bluff near the school in the Columbia Gorge. The museum project, Knowles says, helps prepare students for 21st-century styles of information acquisition and manipulation. See Page 7 for more information. Then you animate it, and it becomes an exhibit that shows up as a graphic on the screen.