Arts Online

Arts Online is a free (NZ Ministry of Education funded) interactive online community with resources, materials and links for dance, drama, visual arts, art history, music – sound arts, drama educators across all sectors in New Zealand. Arts Online also supports Community Artists for Education – CAFE – as a free brokering service to connect artists with schools and students.

It provides free access to:

* Engaging with the Curriculum (2007) resource and key document area

* online teaching resources such as units, lessons, website reviews and links to selected international online teaching materials

* ICT areas that link to software, freeware and digital resources for the arts

* a Teacher Resource Exchange where teachers can upload, share and access teaching ideas and resources

* Interactive Unit Planners (new curriculum and NCEA) where teachers are supported to create, save and download their own units of work with important links to sites, readings and resources

* NCEA planning and assessment resources and links

* professional resources such as online readings, research, case studies

* Student Gallery of student works for sharing and discussing

* Community Artists for Education - CAFE - service featuring artists' profiles in all disciplines and school levels

* links to and promotion of professional partner associations, and arts organisations

AND:

* Professional communication through discussion groups for each discipline, for primary and early childhood teachers, and for secondary school arts coordinators

* An online Ask facility through which teachers can have professional and resource questions answered by an expert

* Fortnightly newsletters

* Listings of and links to arts events, conferences, and ongoing arts activities in New Zealand.