DIA visit helps French students with la belle langue

Upper School French students got to flex their French vocabularies after a recent visit to the Detroit Institute of Arts to take in the permanent Impressionist Exhibit, along with the special “Ordinary People by Extraordinary Artists: Works on Paper by Degas, Renoir, and Friends” exhibit.

French teachers Colleen McIntee, Cat Novak, and Thomas Husson worked together to help more than 90 Upper School students use French to describe some of the techniques used by the Impressionist painters. The students, who can be seen touring the museum here, used VoiceThread technology, which allows them to log in, view images of the artwork online, mark those images up, and then comment using their webcams. Check out some of the students’ analysis, in French, here.

More information about the Ordinary People exhibit, which features artwork so delicate and light-sensitive that it spends 20 years in storage in between brief showings, is available here.