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Workshop: Bringing Shakespeare’s Language to Life – by Jason Bannister

Jeri Pitcher

I attended the Bringing Shakespeare’s Language to Life session. It was facilitated by Jeri Pitcher, the Associate Artistic Director of the Theater at Monmouth.

She showed our small group different exercises you can do with your class if you are teaching a unit on Shakespeare. One of the exercises was Shakespearean Insults. This showed a fun way to introduce students to the language of Shakespeare. Another exercise, called Creating Shakespeare’s World, compared and contrasted a theater experience now to Elizabethan times. There were other exercises as well, all leading up to scene work on a Shakespeare text. Part of the session focused on a discussion of how to specifically implement these exercises into our classrooms.

I will be teaching a unit on A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the next few months and this session gave me some great ideas to include. I would recommend this session for anyone interested in teaching Shakespeare.

Workshop: Filmscoring Basics – by Charlie Johnson

Alan Kaschub

The workshop with Alan Kaschub married in a simple and functional way the arts disciplines of music and video production. GarageBand is a relatively simple program to get to know and with which to produce working products that reflect and embrace a student’s creative approach to problem solving. Whether taken as an individual assignment or part of a group project, the iMovie interaction with GarageBand allows students the opportunity to create their own musical accompaniment to whatever video visuals they might have in working process.
Most videographers will tell you that the most important part of a video is the soundtrack, and that without a well recorded and appropriately “synched” audio track, video loses the biggest part of itself.

Dan and Charlie (up to no good?)

We (Charlie and music colleague Dan Granholm at Mount Desert Island High School) are in hopes that we may get the opportunity to share with a group of students the techniques for shooting an exciting video sequence and then building a well matched and appropriate musical scoring for a particular visual sequence.

National Art Education Association Electronic Gallery

NAEA invites you to participate in creating  a one-of-a-kind electronic gallery of student artwork in celebration of the 2010 NAEA National Convention theme, “Art Education and Social Justice.” This unique collection of artwork will be showcased during the 2010 NAEA National Convention, as well as online at Artsonia.com, the official provider of NAEA Classroom Galleries.

Their goal is to collect over 5,000 pieces!

Deadline

Submissions will be accepted through February 28, 2010.

How to  Submit

Participating teachers must be registered members of Artsonia (a free NAEA member benefit) . Visit http://www.artsonia.com/naea2010 to register and begin submitting digital photos of  your students’ work.

Thank you in advance from NAEA for contributing to this important student gallery that depicts our country and the world through the eyes of our students. One note: You have to be a member of Artsonia.com (or register to be a member) to submit artwork, but registration is free if you are an NAEA member.