http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:52:48 PDT Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:52:48 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=335105 A teaching resource for digital literacy, stimulus for story telling and creativity that is FREE to download. It has been developed in partnership between BradField and the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust and its schools.Inanimate Alice the multi award-winning interactive audio-visual narrative from new-media production house the BradField Company (BradField) has been identified by Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT) as delivering compelling new media suitable for an education audience. Seen by over 1 million viewers (estimate), it is an aid to creativity in the classroom, assisting in story telling and literacy and can be a free and major contribution to the creative curriculum that has been welcomed by teachers accessing it. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=251119 FREE online course with tests!Why is it so important to learn the Circle of Fifths?Because its visualization will help you to identify key signatures, find related keys and remember the order of sharps and flats in key signatures. It is a valuable tool that helps you to see the fundamental relationships that music is based on.Start learning or take one of the quizzes right away. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=295402 Online course in jazz arranging lets you read about , watch and hear the techniques in action via the Garritan jazz instrument virtual library. Course is self-paced, free and you don't have to sign up to become a member of the forum in order to see all the lessons http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=295397 An Online Multimedia course in the principles of orchestration for musicians http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=555588 This class introduces the craft of writing for the theater. Through weekly assignments, in class writing exercises, and work on a sustained piece, students explore scene structure, action, events, voice, and dialogue. We examine produced playscripts and discuss student work. This class's emphasis is on process, risk-taking, and finding one's own voice and vision. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=555728 This class serves as an introduction to video recording and editing, presenting video as a tool of personal apprehension and expression, with an emphasis on self-exploration, performance, social critique, and the organization of raw experience into aesthetic form (narrative, abstract, documentary, essay). Students are required to complete a variety of assignments to learn the basics of video capture and editing, culminating in a final assignment that has to do with personal storytelling. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=555294 This is an advanced subject in computer modeling and CAD CAM fabrication, with a focus on building large-scale prototypes and digital mock-ups within a classroom setting. Prototypes and mock-ups are developed with the aid of outside designers, consultants, and fabricators. Field trips and in-depth relationships with building fabricators demonstrate new methods for building design. The class analyzes complex shapes, shape relationships, and curved surfaces fabrication at a macro scale leading to new architectural languages, based on methods of construction. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=555989 This class provides an introduction to modern art and theories of modernism and postmodernism. It focuses on the way artists use the tension between fine art and mass culture to mobilize a critique of both. We will examine objects of visual art including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, and video. These objects will be viewed in their interaction with advertising, caricature, comics, graffiti, television, fashion, folk art, and so-called "primitive" art. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=555922 Critical examination of major developments in European and American art during the past century. Surveys art's engagements with modernization, radical politics, utopianism, mass culture, changing conceptions of mind and human nature, new technologies, colonialism and postcolonialism, and other significant aspects of recent history. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=620011 This course will introduce the student to the art and architecture of Africa from a Western art historical perspective. This course will emphasize the role of art as manifested in the lifestyles, spiritualities, and philosophies of particular African societies, while also broaching aesthetic principles and the study and display of African art. This free course may be completed online at any time. See course site for detailed overview and learning outcomes. (Art History 304)