Group 1: Applied Areas - The Arts

You don't have time to look for resources, find someone who does. Then, subscribe to their blog.

• Dance: Art Intercepts, Dance Bloggers
• Music: Music Technology, Digital Music Teacher, Music Teachers Blog, Music Matters, Music Tech, Things to Come , Music is not for insects
• Theatre: The Drama Teacher, Drama Teacher's Network, Drama Teaching
• Visual Arts: Apex HS, Art of Apex, IB Art Studio, 365 Jars, Digital Art Education, Carrot Revolution, Art@Heart

The Classics

Do your students know "the classics" in your field? Do they know the best starting point for quality information?

• Teacher Resources: ArtsEdge, PBS Arts, EDSITEment, Thinkfinity
  • Dance: PBS Arts, Voice of Dance
  • Music: PBS Arts, PBS Learning Media
  • Theater: PBS Arts, Stage Lighting Math,
  • Visual Arts: PBS Arts, Incredible,
• Student Resources
  • General: Axisweb
  • Dance: American Ballet Theatre Library, NYCBallet Learning, LOC Ballroom, Ballet Connections, Dance Quotes
  • Music: Shmoop, NPR: Music, San Francisco Symphony, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Theater: NFB/Interactive, NPR: Performing Arts, Theatrecrafts, Theatre Resources
  • Visual Arts : ArtLex, Artcyclopedia, Monet2010, Mural Explorer, National Gallery of Art Tours, NPR Art & Design, American Architecture, Business of Art Articles, Colormatters, Decopix, Studiochalkboard, AskArt, ArtHistory

Multimedia

If you wish to download videos to use in the classroom, use KeepVid, SaveYoutube, or ZamZar.

Teaching Resources

• Dance: ArtsEdge, TeachersDomain,
• Music: ArtsEdge, TeachersDomain,
• Theater: ArtsEdge, TeachersDomain,
• Visual Arts: ArtsEdge, TeachersDomain,

Student Resources

• General: PBS Learning Media
• Dance: PowWow, Vimeo Channels: Alvin Ailey, Davey Dance Blog, Dance on Camera, PBS Learning Media
• Music: Vimeo Channels, Auto-Tune,
• Theater: Vimeo Channels, PBS Learning Media
• Visual Arts: Vimeo Channels, PBS Learning Media

Video Resources

• 50 Greatest Art Videos (art, music, literature)
• Art Babble: art topics and artist interviews
• Library of Congress: YouTube Channel
• Jan Brett's Videos
• National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum (poetry/music): YouTube Channel
• Silk Road Project: YouTube Channel
• Smithsonian: African Art: YouTube Channel
• Smithsonian American Art: YouTube Channel
• Smithsonian Archives of American Art: YouTube Channel
• Smithsonian National Design Museum: YouTube Channel
• Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery: YouTube Channel
• Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: YouTube Channel
• Smithsonian FreerSackler (Asian Art): YouTube Channel
• Smithsonian Folkways (music): YouTube Channel
• Smithsonian Global Sound (music): YouTube Channel
• Virginia Folklife Program (music): YouTube Channel

Student Video Productions

• Dance: Anne Frank in Our Hearts, Dance, Underground Dances, 
• Music Videos: What You Readin', You're Not Alone, They'll Never Know, Someday, Crank Dat Dental Floss, Detention Blues, Slick Rock Festival (YouTube) music videos, The Weapon featuring a youth band.
• Band Documentary: The Magic of Band
• Theatre Trailers: Scrooge Trailer, Play on Trailer and Younkers Trailer

Interactives and Social Media

Check out the Hand Symphony.

• General: PBS Learning Media
• Dance: PBS Great Performances: Free To Dance
• Music: PBS Interactives, Pandora, PBS: Strange Fruit/Protest Music, Pitch Perfect,
• Theater: Cinema
• Visual Arts: Art Interactives, George Washington Portrait, PBS Interactives, Masterpiece Me, Monet2010, MOMA's Bauhaus, Johnny Cash Project, Picasso, Popart, NGA Tools, Illustration Friday, Art Education 2.0

ReadWriteThink Interactives

• Acrostic Poem, Alphabet Organizer, BioCube, CD/DVD Creator, Comic Creator, Comparison Map, Compare/Contrast, Crossword Puzzles, Diamante Poem, Doodle Splash, Drama Map, Essay Map, FlipBook, Graphic Map, Letter Generator, Persuasion Map, Profile Publisher, Timeline, 2 Circle Venn, 3 Circle Venn, Word Matrix

Topical Ideas

Background information and links to quality websites, activities, webquests, and teaching materials

• 42explore: Calligraphy http://42explore.com/calligrphy.htm
• 42explore: Color http://www.42explore.com/color.htm
• 42explore: Drawing http://www.42explore.com/draw.htm
• 42explore: Masks http://www.42explore.com/mask.htm
• 42explore: Papermaking http://www.42explore.com/papermaking.htm
• 42explore: Patterns http://42explore.com/patterns.htm
• 42explore: Photography http://www.42explore.com/photog.htm
• 42explore: Pottery http://www.42explore.com/pottery.htm
• 42explore: Puppets http://www.42explore.com/puppet.htm
• 42explore: Sculpture http://www.42explore.com/sculpture.htm
• 42explore: Weaving http://www.42explore.com/weave.htm

Use the links on the left to move through this online workshop.

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