Smarthistory: Khan Academy for Art Teachers

Smarthistory, presented by the Khan Academy in collaboration with several museums, is a wonderful resource for art teachers looking to add some technology components into their lessons.  The website explains their purpose as:
Smarthistory.org is a free and open, not-for-profit, art history textbook. Part of the Khan Academy, we use multimedia to deliver unscripted conversations between art historians about the history of art.

My first impressions of this resource after stumbling upon the site while searching for video about Van Gogh's Starry Night are that this could be a great tool for the art teacher, especially at the Middle and High School levels.  Art and Art History are expansive topics, but the site organizes artists and movements through an interactive timeline making it easy to find what you need.

All of the features of the site are well thought out and highly organized.  The conversations, links, videos, and shared Flickr images give the art teacher multiple methods for presenting art pieces and explaining their significance to the art world.  Since I am an elementary art teacher, I would share with you that my students are not going to be browsing this site on their own due to the many nudes that are displayed in several different pieces, but the middle and high school teachers could probably let their students use this site for research as long as there is an understanding between the teacher and his/her students about how to approach such images in art.