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In response to the connecting vocational high schools from the nine-year integrated curriculum, the Ministry of Education has started to promote the new curriculum reform. In 2010 vocational school''s group curriculum syllabus, it has mentioned that the art curriculum''s goal is to cultivate and educate the students in basic concepts of art, enhance the students'' aesthetic abilities and the speculation abilities in lifestyle applications. We can thus see the necessary existence of appreciative course in art curriculum. Technology has changed the lives of human beings as well as teaching methods. The advancement of teaching medium from art appreciation teaching to the use of Internet has developed into an information technology of teaching medium. Teachers are able to use this information technology to enhance the students'' learning interests and improve the teaching results. There is a rich source of teaching materials in the National Palace Museum website, and researchers are attempting to use the network information contents of the Museum to blend in Chinese Art Appreciation teaching to stimulate the students'' learning interests and upgrade the students'' art appreciation abilities.
Based on the aforesaid background, the three purposes of this study are: 1. Make an in-depth analysis on the network resources of the National Palace Museum, and blend in the information technology into the theory of art appreciation teaching. 2. Make actual uses of the network resource designs of the Museum into appropriate Chinese Art Appreciation curriculum in the vocational high school stage. 3. Implement action study in teaching to improve the teaching materials of Art Appreciation curriculum, thereby upgrading the researchers'' teaching professional knowledge.
The action study was adopted by this study to take the first-year students of vocational high schools as the subjects. The Chinese Art Appreciation, student creations, inter-appreciation of student creations were chosen as the three cycle tutorials of basic modes to implement such teaching topics as beautiful decorations, the beauty of shapes, and the beauty of lines, respectively for a period of 12 weeks.
The research conclusions are as follows: 1. Life experience guide and creation appreciation are regarded as the teaching strategies. 2. Utilize the network resources of the National Palace Museum to perform the plights and responses encountered in Chinese Art Appreciation curriculum, such as a need to reduce the excessive pictures prepared for appreciation, strengthen the classroom management, a must to continue providing students the opportunities to practice appreciation interpretation during the course, provide cultural creative concept for students to think creatively, and a need to fully prepare the teaching medium tools. 3. The students are fond of the teaching strategies. 4. The pictures and images in mystery shapes, enlarged partial parts, and feature special effects and interaction are more likely to attract the students'' attention. 5. Students lack the descriptive abilities in appreciation and sharing. 6. The pre-digitizing creation treatment is able to generate better results on publication activities. 7. The creation appreciation with grading standards is able to help students in appreciating the schoolmates'' creations. 8. The formation of collective consciousness in classes is able to help students to perform creation evaluation. 9. Students possess the spirit of mutual assistance. 10. The teaching outcomes will be better if teachers are able to pay more attention on pictures and animation sequence arrangement, and the class management skills will then be improved.
The study has come out with the following suggestions: 1. The National Palace Museum should encourage teachers to use network resources. 2. Under financial feasibility, the schools should add audio-visual equipment in art classes. 3. For teachers who wish to implement the curriculum, they should seek coordination with several teachers specializing in different domains to assist in teaching, they should know that the 3D cultural displays and the e-academy of the Museum are able to provide optimal help in art appreciation, in order to emphasize the sophistication of students'' creative results, it is necessary to limit the teaching scope and increase the creation guiding time, and strengthen the application abilities on teaching-related computer software. 4. On followed up research prospective, it is suggested to integrate the curriculum design of different creative categories, and develop the appreciation teaching materials for the entire school year systematically.
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