Lisa Galaviz

multimedia, web, and interactive design

• Curriculum Design

  
  

  Curriculum Design is not that different from Instructional Design if you can imagine your clients as museum curators and private collectors and your SME's as university professors. These lessons and curriculum units are the result of my work with the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts (NTIEVA). The three units of instruction focusing on the work of early Texas artists were developed in collaboration with the NTIEVA and the Center for the Advancement and Study of Early Texas Art (CASETA).

• Visions of Texas

  
  Early Texas artists preserved their unique perspectives of the Texas landscape, often incorporating specific characteristics of that geographic region. This unit uses early Texas art to teach eighth grade students not only geographic regions of Texas, but also that the observation of one’s everyday surroundings can inspire meaningful works of art.

• Texas Skies

  
  
  

  Developed for kindergarten and pre-school students, Texas Skies uses weather to illustrate how early Texas artists tells a story through universal human experience. The unit also teaches children to use their senses to observe their environment and make predictions.

• The Dignity of Work

  
  

  Early Texas art recorded the hard work of people who migrated and settled in Texas. This unit uses early Texas art and the theme of work to explore the role of hard work in settling the Texas frontier.

• The Art of Persuasion

  
  
  

  A collaborative effort between NTIEVA and the University of North Texas Digital Documents Department, this lesson compares posters from World War II to modern advertisements to give high school students the tools to deconstruct persuasive content and view it objectively.

• Patterns Before Time

  
  
  

  Developed around geometry and spatial reasoning requirements for fifth grade students, this lesson analyzes the influence of cultural history and geometric concepts in both the decorative tile work of Islamic craftsmen, and graphic design of the artist M.C. Escher.