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Thanks Linda for the email today

Today I received an email from Linda Morkeski from River Arts located in Damarisoctta. It is a wonderful gallery that offers interesting classes for children, young adults and adults. I highly recommend it.

Linda sent me a great resource that you might be interested in receiving. It comes out regularly from the Annenburg Institute with curriculum for teachers (about quarterly) – focuses on current events and yes, you can subscribe to it. It is called Annenberg Media  Update. Videos are available to stream – for free on a lesson basis, so you can pick and choose. I have included a few of the links that you might find useful and will give you an idea of the rich resources that are available in the newsletter.

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• Look at Art Through Time: A Global View, another multimedia course for high school teachers. This course helps you experience the art of many cultures and historical periods, and includes hundreds of images. Information and images about Islam and art are sprinkled throughout the course, but these units in particular offer very useful information. Unit 5, “Cosmology and Belief,” discusses how people use art to understand their reason for being, and uses examples from several religions, including Islam. View images of La Mezquita (Great Mosque) in Spain, and the Ka’ba in Mecca. http://www.learner.org/courses/globalart/theme/5/index.html Unit 8 “Writing,” explores how both images and words are used as symbols of actual things as well as abstract ideas. The section on illuminated manuscripts discusses the important role of calligraphy in world of Islam, and its close association with the word of God in the Qur’an. View a leaf from a Qur’an manuscript. http://www.learner.org/courses/globalart/theme/8/index.html
• Arts and Humanities Month
  Celebrated every October, this special month is coordinated by Americans for the Arts to recognize the importance of arts and humanities in our daily lives. You can easily search the Annenberg Media Web site to find courses and professional development workshops at all levels in arts, foreign languages, history and literature. http://www.learner.org/index.html And be sure to look at the Web interactives designed for teachers and students in these same disciplines. http://www.learner.org/interactives/
• Universal Music Day, October 9                                                                                      On this fourth annual Universal Music Day, high school teachers and their students can explore musical genres from around the globe and the various musical elements with Exploring the World of Music. http://www.learner.org/resources/series105.html
• Get the inside story on how innovative artists, like Bill Viola and the group Goat Island, include music in their unique works in A World of Art: Works in Progress. http://www.learner.org/resources/series64.html
• For a mathematics perspective, unit 10, “Harmonius Math,” in Mathematics Illuminated looks at how Fourier analysis is used in creating electronic music. http://www.learner.org/courses/mathilluminated/units/10/ Be sure to read the related unit in the online textbook. http://www.learner.org/courses/mathilluminated/units/10/textbook/01.php
• The Art of Teaching the Arts: A Workshop for High School Teachers illustrates techniques in effective music instruction. http://www.learner.org/channel/workshops/hsarts/ For an example, see this activity on feedback in coaching. http://www.learner.org/channel/workshops/hsarts/program4/i4/prog4_activity.html
• Learn about the healing power of music — how music can transcend tragedy and help individuals overcome the force of racism — with Teaching The Children of Willesden Lane, http://www.learner.org/series/cowl/ for middle and high school teachers. Click on Musical Selections to listen to the performances of classical pianist Mona Golabek, author of the book on which the series is based.
• Connecting With the Arts: A Teaching Practices Library, 6-8 shows the role of music in arts integration at the middle school level. http://www.learner.org/channel/libraries/connectarts68/
• See how two teachers approach music at the elementary level in The Arts in Every Classroom: A Video Library, K-5 http://www.learner.org/channel/libraries/artsineveryclassroom/video4.html The left-hand links include further information, materials, and video.
• In Art Through Time, unit 6, “Death,” illustrates how people have expressed their attitudes toward death in art, some of which are universal, while others are cultural specific. One piece featured in this unit, “La Calavera de la Catrina,” is an icon for the Mexican Day of the Dead which, like Halloween, is related to the Catholic celebration of All Saint’s and All Soul’s Day. http://www.learner.org/courses/globalart/work/124/index.html
• Draw on the ideas presented in “Teaching Visual Art,” program 6 of The Arts in Every Classroom: A Video Library, K-5 to connect your Halloween mask-making activity with the deeper dimensions of emotion, culture, artistic expression — and even a little math. http://learner.org/redirect/october/arts47.html
• Extreme Exposure Exhibition at The Annenberg Space for Photography
  What’s it like to dive into the icy water of the Arctic alongside polar bears? To find yourself suddenly beside a herd of elephants, 800 strong? To explore the subtropical world of the Florida Everglades? To live your life as a “volcano chaser?” The five talented photographers featured in the new Extreme Exposure exhibition at The Annenberg Space for Photography know exactly what it’s like. They all work on the edge of wildlife, climate and environment to capture arresting images from the most extreme environments in the world. Check out Extreme Exposure at the Space from October 23, 2010 through April 17, 2011. http://www.annenbergspaceforphotography.org/exhibitions/future-exhibitions.asp