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Arts
Elementary, K-6
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Rochester Public Schools
Partner: Marion Arts Center
Dates: June 24-July 3 with on-line support through November 2002
Location: Rochester Memorial School, Rochester
Registration: 26 spaces available
Contact: Jay Ryan, 508-763-2049
email: jaypaints@aol.com
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Theatre: A Place Where Anything Can Happen
This institute will provide an overview of Greek, Shakespearean, and modern American theatre combined with practical experience in scriptwriting, acting, directing, and technical theatre production. Participants will explore the use of theatre in the classroom as a means of improving all students' achievement in reading and writing. Participants will learn how stagecraft enhances the significant details of stories for children. During the summer, participants will plan three theatre projects using texts and topics of their choice for their students to complete in the coming school year.
8 days
Graduate credit available from UMass, Dartmouth
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Elementary, K-6
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Cambridge Public Schools
Partner: New England Conservatory of Music, UMass, Amherst
Dates: July 1-19 (no class July 4), including evening concert; Saturdays, September 28, and November 2, 2002
Registration: 23 spaces available
Location: New England Conservatory of Music, Boston
Contact: Mary A. Epstein, 617-738-5259
email: Fbe42@aol.com
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Kodály Music Institute
The Kodály Institute teaches music educators to build a curriculum of authentic folksongs, dances, and singing games, jazz, and classical art music. Cultural, aesthetic, and music history is interwoven with singing, movement, musical literacy, and instrument playing. Areas of study include solfège (musicianship training), choral conducting, teaching materials, and choral literature. Participants will complete two major projects: researching, analyzing, and codifying a collection of musical pieces for classroom use and making a videotape of teaching music to students.
14 days plus 2 follow-up days
Graduate credit available from New England Conservatory or UMass, Amherst
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Middle, High
3
Boston Public Schools
Partner: New England Conservatory of Music
Dates: July 9-12, 15-17, August 1-2, 2002
Location: New England Conservatory of Music, Boston
Registration: 30 spaces available
Contact: Larry Scripp, 617-585-1364
email: lscripp@newenglandconservatory.edu
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Music as a Way of Learning History
This course introduces participants to American music in its cultural and historical context. Starting from a general statement of music's role in transmitting and preserving information, participants will learn about the social, political, and economic movements in America's past and the music associated with them. After choosing a topic of interest, such as music of a particular period, region, or group, participants will conduct research culminating in a project that can be used in the music or history classroom. Teams of music and history/social science educators are encouraged to register.
7 days plus 2 follow-up days
Graduate credit available from New England Conservatory of Music, School of Continuing Education
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Middle, High
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Arlington Public Schools
Partner: Massachusetts College of Art
Dates: July 22-July 26, July 29-August 2; August 9
Location: Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Addison Gallery, Andover
Registration: 30 spaces available
Contact: Liz Rudnick, 617-879-7174
email: lizrudnick@massart.edu
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Portrait and Landscape: Investigations into the American Story
Throughout history and across cultures, the portrait and landscape have documented and celebrated people and their relationship to the world. This institute will examine American Art of the 19th century through museum discussions, research, and studio work. Learning about the historical and cultural contexts of works of art will be the primary focus of the institute. Teams of art and history/social science educators are encouraged to register.
10 days plus one follow-up day
Graduate credit available from the Massachusetts College of Art
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High
5
Masconomet Regional Schools, Topsfield
Partner: Salem State College
Dates: June 20 (4:30-6:30 p.m.), July 22-26; July 29-August 1, 2002, with on-line support during the school year
Location: Masconomet Regional High School
Registration: 26 spaces available
Contact: Linda Morkeski, 978-887-2323, x 6215
email: morkeski@msn.com
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Video Animation: A Tool for the Classroom
Taught by a professional filmmaker and art, communications, instructional technology, and history specialists, this institute is designed as an introduction to video animation for educators who have little or no experience with filmmaking. Starting with a topic of their choice from history, participants will produce an animated film that has historical accuracy, dramatic structure, continuity, strong visual elements, and sound effects. They will learn to research sources of text, images, and music, to write a script and create a storyboard, to design characters and settings, and to film and edit an animation. Participants will also plan an animation project that their students will complete during the school year. Teams of visual arts, English language arts, history/social science, and instructional technology teachers are encouraged to register.
9 days
Graduate credit available from Salem State College
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High
6
The Education Cooperative (TEC)
Partner: Bridgewater State College
Dates: July 8-July 10; July 12, July 15, July 17, July 19; August 29
Location: Bridgwater State College
Registration: 24 spaces available
Contact: Betsy Baglio, 781-237-3028 (registration); Joan Hausrath, 508-697-1200, x 2186 (content information)
Email: jhausrath@bridgew.edu
website: www.bridgew.edu/Depts/Art/ Hausrath/coninst/inst.htm
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New Technologies in the Visual Arts
This institute focuses on the use and transformation of photographic images in the making of art. Participants will explore the use of photography in digital art made on a computer or in lithography using non-toxic processes and a photocopier. Slide lectures will include contemporary art in which photographs have been combined with other media and examples from the history of photography and lithography in the 19th and 20th centuries. Discussions will include topics such as property rights and plagiarism as they apply to published photographs, including those found on the Internet.
7 days plus 1 follow-up day
Graduate credit available from Bridgewater State College
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