Stories and pictures to make learning alphabet sounds enjoyable.

On a nontypical day in 1946 North Carolina, local schoolteacher Joe Robert Kirkman is dealing with a series of incidents: an unfortunate encounter with a treed bobcat, a courageous rescue of a drowning child, discovering the humanity of the black schoolhouse janitor, trying to get a goat off the roof, and several unsettling metaphysical discussions. Most troubling is the late afternoon meeting with the local school board -- called over Joe Robert's...

Art instructor Jasen Evoy discusses seven principles of design: balance, movement, emphasis, contrast, pattern, rhythm, and unity. Students learn to recognize the principles of design in existing artwork and illustrates ways to practice and incorporate each principle into the their own works.

A professional designer and a student explain line, shape and form, color, value, texture, and space. Students learn to recognize the elements of design in existing artwork and manipulate those elements in their own work. (from container).

Professional artist Anthony Pessler discusses what makes a composition effective and demonstrates some techniques for achieving variety, balance and unity. Art professor Anthony Gully visits a gallery to critique and analyze the elements of a composition.

"It's the end of summer, 2003. George W. Bush has recently declared the mission in Iraq accomplished and the unemployment rate is at its highest level in years. Meanwhile, somewhere in the Midwest, Troy Augustus Loudermilk (fair-haired, statuesque, charismatic) and his companion Harry Rego (definitely none of those things) step out of a silver Land Cruiser and onto the campus of The Seminars, America's most prestigious creative writing program, to...

Short stories in Spanish for beginners, Volume 2 offers eight more unconventional and captivating short stories for adult and young adult learners. Carefully written to provide a sense of achievement and feeling of progress when reading, these stories will help you expand your vocabulary and improve your comprehension in a natural way. From science fiction and fantasy to crime and thrillers, Short Stories in Spanish, Volume 2 is designed to make...

Stories and pictures to make learning alphabet sounds enjoyable.

A Touch of Greatness is a feature-length documentary film focusing on the extraordinary work of Albert Cullum, an elementary school teacher for over twenty years and a pioneer in American education. Championing an unorthodox educational philosophy, Cullum regularly taught his elementary school children literary masterpieces, most notably the works of Shakespeare, Sophocles and Shaw. Combining interviews with Cullum and his former students with stunning...