Media Arts Teaching Residency Summer 2010
The residency focuses on Media Arts and the Integration of Learning Technologies into the Arts, Math, Science and Humanities Curricula. A select group of K-12 Teachers, representing public, private and charter schools across Southern and Central California, spent five days in professional development workshops, presentations and field trips meant to enhance and re-invigorate their teaching and creative practices.
The K-12 Teaching Residency is part of Otis' Teaching and Learning Initiative, mad
Otis College: Suzanne Lacy on She Who Would Fly
Suzanne Lacy is an internationally known artist whose work includes installations, video, and large-scale performances on social themes and urban issues. One of her best-known works to date is The Crystal Quilt (Minneapolis, 1987) a performance with 430 older women, broadcast live on Public Television. During the nineties she worked with teams of artists and youth to create an ambitious series of performances, workshops, and installations on youth and public policy, documented by videos, local a
Woman's Building History: Betty Gordon (Otis College)
This video was commissioned by Otis College of Art and Design for the exhibition "Doin' It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman's Building" (1973-1991) in the Ben Maltz Gallery, October 1 January 28, 2012 and is part of an ongoing series of oral histories about the Woman's Building partially funded by the Getty Foundation.
The exhibition is part of a "Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A.1945-1980," an unprecedented collaboration of more than fifty cultural institutions across Southern Califo
Leslie Labowitz Discusses Activist Performance and the Media
From Reverence to Rape to Respect, Las Vegas, 1978 was a performance a collaborative art project by Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz as part of Ariadne: A Social Art Network. Ariadne was formed by Lacy and Labowitz as a networking structure to address issues of violence against women through art, media, and community organizing.
This is a contemporary interview with Leslie Labowitz discussing her collaboration with Suzanne Lacy in creating this performance in Las Vegas in 1978 by Otis Public Pr
Otis Integrated Learning Course: Palau Freedom Memorial
Otis Integrated Learning Course: Palau Freedom Memorial: An International Experience
Instructors: May Sun and Cindi Alvitre / Mentor: Jeffrey Vallance
Students will work with Palauan artists and students in Palau to design a Freedom Memorial / public art project for the Palauan people.
The course will run on Mondays in the Spring with a 2 week Summer trip to Palau to complete course requirements.
An early comment: im palauan living in_ northern california, i love the ideas you guys have!!!
Otis Toy Design: Sewing Plush Fabrics
From the well respected Otis College Toy Design Department, here is a basic lesson in how to properly sew plush fabric. Otis faculty Norene Roxbury uses making a teddy bear to show the basic steps, from choosing the fabric, cutting, pinning, and sewing plush fabric.
Crews Ventures Lab: Office of Tech Transfer
The Ventures Lab at the University of Memphis will provide a vibrant environment for promising researchers and local entrepreneurs to collaborate on projects with real-world applications. The University of Memphis has received a $1 million gift from Hilliard and Harriett Crews to create the business start-up facilitator and incubator.
The University of Memphis Green Internships.
Students at the U of M are now able to complete internships in a number of "green" areas both on campus and off campus.
The Republican nomination
Our correspondents discuss the race for the Republican presidential nomination and the pool of flawed candidates vying for the honour
TouchStudio - Hello World In this video, Peli de Halleux, from the Research in Software Engineering group (RiSE) at Microsoft Research, gives a basic tutorial using the TouchStudio editor. Learn how to write 'Hello World' in TouchStudio (and how to use its editor).
1 Why people management matters to the successful delivery of projects The importance of budget, time and quality to the success of projects means that they are often managed as technical systems rather than behavioural systems. Yet mismanagement of the ‘people’ aspects of projects is as likely to contribute to their failure as neglect of the ‘hard’ dimensions of project management. This is because the successful implementation of any kind of project requires the effective deployment of human as well as material resources. Indeed, without peopl
4.2.1 Reducing and processing text
How does the computer's peculiar binary world of digital entities differ from our analogue world of colour, sound, taste and touch? This unit explores the way in which information, in the form of text, still and moving images, and sound can cross the boundary from the analogue universe into a digital world.
4.2 Text
How does the computer's peculiar binary world of digital entities differ from our analogue world of colour, sound, taste and touch? This unit explores the way in which information, in the form of text, still and moving images, and sound can cross the boundary from the analogue universe into a digital world.
Poison dart frog
Some animals use bright coloration or patterns to warn other organisms that they are poisonous or harmful. This helps the frog escape attack from predators.
Cholla cactus from the Sonora desert
Cacti have few leaves and waxy skin to reduce water loss, shallow root systems, and the ability to store water. The cholla cactus has thousands of spines for shade and to keep predators from eating it.
Multiple Sclerosis - Cranial Nerves Exam - Oculomotor, Trochlear, Abducens (CN III, IV, VI) Sub-exam
Shelly is a 38-year-old African American female who initially presented with transverse myelitis 2 years ago. A lumbar puncture revealed multiple oligoclonal bands in the cerebral spinal fluid. MRI has demonstrated numerous plaques in the bilateral cerebral white matter. She eventually went on to recover from her initial attack but since her second attack has continued to progressively worsen. Her gait and other motor functioning have deteriorated and she is now wheelchair bound.
Athletics 01 - Warming Up
Lesson plan that introduces children to the concept of warming up. Children are provided with opportunities to practice running over distance, sprinting and jumping. Their knowledge and understanding of athletics is promoted as they find out about sprinting.
Hurricane Keith from TRMM: October 2, 2000 (3 Surfaces)
Hurricane Keith with three rain level isosurfaces (yellow=0.5 inches-hour, green=1.0 inches-hour and 2.0 inches-hour)
Authors@Google: Ann Doyle
Anne Doyle interview women leaders from across the country to research Powering Up. She came to Google to talk about the unique generations of women leaders and how important it is for women to not only be high achievers, but leaders as well.
In the Health Care Sector, Who Should Choose Which Treatment Is Best?
Each day, workers in the health care field debate the most reliable course of action for treating a particular ailment. As part of U.S. health care reform, new emphasis is being placed on comparative effectiveness research (CER), which pits remedies against one another to determine which is best. A new paper by Wharton professor Scott Harrington warns that the government should avoid developing a monopoly on CER, and offers suggestions for sparking interest from private sector researchers.
