Funding and Support. SNAP Foundation SNAP helps young people across the U.S. by supplying educators with cameras, film developing and a variety of visual literacy lesson plans.
SNAP Students builds critical thinking skills in kids as they reflect on the things they value, document their lives, and tell their stories to the world. » Learn More Pay it Forward Foundation The Pay It Forward Foundation was established in September 2000 by author Catherine Ryan Hyde and others to educate and inspire students to realize that they can change the world, and provide them with opportunities to do so. By bringing the author's vision and related materials into classrooms internationally, students and their teachers are encouraged to formulate their own ideas of how they can pay it forward. » Learn More Kids in Need The Kids In Need Foundation introduced a new teacher grants program where teachers can apply for an Elmer’s Teacher Tool Kit grant that can range from $100 to $500.
Digital Opportunities Corporate Giving. Combining Robotics With Poetry? Art and Engineering Can Co-Exist. Big Ideas Culture Teaching Strategies Sue Mellon By Barbara Ray At the beginning, people thought she was nuts.
Sue Mellon, gifted support coordinator for Springdale Junior and Senior High/Colfax School in the Allegheny Valley School District, thought 7th and 8thgraders could develop a deeper understanding of poetry by playing around with robotics. “Originally, people looked at me like I was crazy,” Mellon said. Poetry isn’t always easy for students. “Science, technology, engineering, math, art—that’s all really important. “A lot of kids aren’t crazy about poetry,” Mellon said.
Stories like Mellon’s can be found all around the Allegheny School District these days as the area, already renowned for its groundbreaking work in STEM, takes on STEAM. [RELATED READING: Girls and Math: Busting the Stereotype] STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and math; it’s become a shorthand way for talking about how to prepare American students for a 21st-century, globalized economy.
Related. MilkBoy, the Philly Music-and-Coffee Empire, Charts the Recording Industry's Future. MilkBoy owners Jamie Lokoff (left) and Tommy Joyner make fresh kinds of magic at their new Center City recording studio headquarters.
Photo by Kyle Cassidy There’s a book that Tommy Joyner and Jamie Lokoff couldn’t live without back in the mid-’90s, in their early days as budding music-studio mavens after launching MilkBoy Recording in North Philadelphia. It was called The Studio Business Book, and they turned to it constantly: when they had questions about how to plan their operations, how to charge for their services, how to keep track of the money. It wasn’t that they were clueless—they’d already weathered the challenges of working as musicians themselves—but now they were figuring out, as they went along, just how tough the business was on the other side of the studio.
So if their copy of The Studio Business Book’s second edition was stained and beat up, well, it came by its condition honestly. “The studio business isn’t just about gear,” Joyner says. Maker Faire. DoodleBuzz: Typographic News Explorer. Exit Through The Gift Shop. Meet the Figures of Raphael's School of Athens. Bouncy Balls. Tracing Project « ENGL 300: The Graphic Novel. Annotated Sandman Page You'll begin this project by selecting one of the graphic narratives we've read so far this semester.
Your options include graphic narratives we are reading right up to the deadline for this project---The Dark Knight Returns, Nat Turner, We3, Maus, Fun Home, and Exit Wounds. The only text you may not work on is Gods' Man. You'll also need tracing paper to complete this project. Tracing paper is available in the lower level of the campus bookstore, as well as at most office or art supply stores. You will trace two different pages from one graphic narrative for this project. First Tracing Pick a compelling page from the graphic narrative and trace it. Second Tracing For the second tracing select a page that feels distinctly different from the page you traced earlier. Synthesis and Reflection The synthesis and reflection is a single document in which you work through the process and product of the tracing activity. Other Details. Sidewalk chalk guy. Sidewalk chalk guy «« back to gprime.net all material copyrighted by its original creator |
Howtoons. Education : Teachers : Lesson Plans. Fish Tank Phone. Kingyobu is a group of five students of the Kyoto University of Art and Design.
Meaning “goldfish club”, they had the idea to fill several telephone booths in Osaka with water and goldfish, symbol of happiness, luck and prosperity. More images of this unusual city aquariums in the sequel.