Finding resources to introduce the semester theme to a high school art class of mostly ninth graders can be difficult. They can’t be treated like babies, but anything too long-winded and elaborate can lose them. Today (thanks to google’s home page) I found a resource for fall semester’s theme: visual storytelling.
A family podcast from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Aesop’s fables, including historical background and 3 fables. The Met also has a page on the pietre dura cabinet from their collection mentioned in the podcast. It includes closeups of the inlaid stone images based on the stories. I feel a class discussion on the difference between visual and audio stories, story arc and imagination.
We’ll see how well the discussion works on Thursday. Nothing like finding resources at the last moment.
I saw it for the first time this week on youtube, though it has been around and revised a few times by Carl Fisch. He remixed content from David Warlick, Ray Kurzweil, Ian Jukes, and Thomas Friedman. It highlights issues of globalization first mentioned in “The World is Flat” by Friedman .
University of Washington students have created a system for enhancing video imagery using still photographs. The video explanation is a little technical for most of my ninth-graders, but the concept is very interesting and my techies will love being in the loop. I found the information on the TechCrunch blog.
My children can’t believe they have seen this. I am now texting messages. I’ve refused in the past because my thumbs just aren’t fast enough, and I absolutely hate trying to remember which initials I can use as a short cut. Now I’ve signed up for Jott and am leaving myself and everyone else messages just by dialing and talking. I love it.
First a stop action animation be PES….that I found on Emily Valenza’s blog art ed digested.
I love seeing the thought and creativity that people put into their youtube videos. However, I am not willing to scroll through the boring and tedious to look for the golden videos. I really appreciate it when bloggers do the mining and locate the gems for the rest of us.
And then there is Nova’s Open Source website on the car of the future. Students can download and edit the video provided, but the class does need access to video editing software such as iMovie.
I checked out Blackle.com. It’s a google web search page that has a black background to save energy. That I learned about watching “Battleground Earth” from Discovery’s Planet Green Network. We’ve been watching several shows on the network, because we are getting ready to remodel our 55-year-old house. Wish I could find a dependable general contractor in San Diego who works with earth-friendly-materials. Otherwise using Blackle.com may be my biggest contribution to going green this year.
