THREADS OF LIFE
Oklahoma A+ Schools in partnership with Southern Nazarene University's Project Management Class would like to invite you to participate in your own weaving experiment. Your conference planners used the idea Weaving Strands of Learning to create the 2009 conference. Now you have the opportunity to share your great ideas and your students' work in a virtual gallery which will be accessible to A+ teachers and students across the state!
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First, ask your students:
Then, decide with them, a medium for their story:
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How could you weave notes, chords, words, fabric, paper, or movement to say it?
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What: An Online Gallery of Woven Art, Music, Writing, Theatre and Dance and a Live Gallery Showing and Reception
Who: Open to students of all A+ Schools and 2009 Conference Participants
When: Begin creating and sharing NOW for participation in the Gallery and Reception on December 2, 5:00-7:00PM with remarks at 6:00PM. The live exhibit will be open from December 1-4. Online gallery available from November 20.
Where: Reception and exhibit, Donna Nigh Gallery, 3rd floor Nigh University Center, UCO, 100 N. University Drive, Edmond, OK 73034
Why: To network and share creative learning with teachers and students across the state
What will the idea of weaving inspire in your classroom?
We are defining the concept of weaving loosely as a work of any art form having at least one interwoven or interlocking component, and are excited to see how our creative A+ teachers and students interpret it in various art forms, visual and performing.
How would you weave using music, dance, creative writing, visual art materials or theatre?
Need Ideas?
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The traditional: Weaving
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Create a visual artwork that is woven using fabric, yarn, paper, etc.
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Drawing or painting
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Create a two dimensional artwork and add an element that is interwoven through the design or around the border.
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Photography and recording
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Weave photos and audio to create a professional looking video.
Photostory
http://tinyurl.com/4f869 - free download
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Photography and recording
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Weave photos and voice recordings.
VoiceThread
www.voicethread.com – free web application
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Music
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Weave different tunes or styles of music into a single audio piece. (Recommend http://creativecommons.org for copyright safe music files.)
Audacity – for PC
http://Audacity.sourceforge.com – free download
Garageband – for Mac
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Creative writing
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Weave words and ideas together into prose or poetry.
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Dance
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Weave movement to express ideas and video.
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Clay
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Click Here for a link to a lesson plan from Conference Exhibiter – Bercher Ceramics.
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To Participate:
1. Enter your information in the project spreadsheet by following this link by November 9, (November 12 for continuous learning schools) so that we know that you plan to participate in: the online gallery, the exhibit, the reception/networking event.
2. When your entries are complete: Click Here to upload photos; Click Here to upload music or audio; and/or Click Here to upload video.
3. Deliver your artwork for the exhibit to the A+ Office (call for directions: 405-974-3779) and/or confirm your intent to perform a dance, song, etc. at the reception by November 20. Click here for the form to attach to submitted artwork.
NOTE: Please be sure to put Weaving Project in the "Tags" box when you upload.
While you are creating and exploring, your A+ schools staff along with our partners from Southern Nazarene University’s project management class, Abbey Marra and Katie Johnson, will be planning for sharing your creations both in person and online with your sister A+ schools.
Every great idea has its inspiration. Click Here to find the story of the weaving school in Egypt which inspires this A+ project.