The Goethe-McMaster Project, the web portion of which was undertaken by Creative Creature, has been online for about 9 months now, and has been successfully received by students and teachers of art and German, with over 12,000 unique visitors since its launch in September 2006.

The most recent edition of the McMaster Museum of Art‘s newsletter has a segment on the project:

“Last September, the prestigious Goethe- Institut and the McMaster Museum of Art launched a website, designed to bring German art, language and culture to the fingertips of teachers and students globally. More than 10,000 unique visitors have used the site so far and it has garnered considerable praise from German, History and Art teachers.

The website and this project were the subject of workshops at the Ontario Modern Language Teachers’ Association’s annual conference in March. Educator’s comments were enthusiastic: “Loved it!”, “Very useful”, “Could be used in any Drama, Social Science Course”, “Would love a compilation of Spanish and French Art!”, “Excellent for cross-curricular involvement.”

Colleagues at the Goethe-Institut San Francisco also used the material at a teacher training session. Once back in their classrooms, the German teachers were pleased with how well the website activities and content engaged the students.

McMaster’s complementary exhibition continues until August 25.”

The newsletter is available online, and you can find out more about the project by reading about it in my Portfolio, or by visiting the site.