It’s the weekend, time for a few errands, grocery shopping, mending a bit of that landscape edging you promised your wife you’d get to a month ago, and spending some time with the kids. Truth be told, our weekends are usually all sorts of busy here in the Rimes’ household, and I’m sure any other family with younger children will agree, it’s far too easy to find yourself working harder on a Saturday than you...

It’s Friday, I’m burned out, and this video single handily restored my energy! It’s brilliant in its honesty, sincerity, and technique. I have a feeling that if you happen to be a student in Tricia Fuglestad’s classroom, you’re blessed each and every time you find yourself in a creative mood with a teacher that not only talks the talk, but walks the walk. Just take a look at her video for proper “glue...

I usually don’t post anything so obviously related to the title, but I’m really quite poor at trying to think abstractly, and a more “artistic” metaphor doesn’t spring to mind when watching this film. Suffice it to say, if you’re an art and/or digital media teacher, and you work with teenagers or students at the secondary level, this video is for you! Ostensibly, the film by Leo Verrier is a tribute to...

What could you do with this video in your classroom? My “off the cuff” ideas: Language Arts: Have the students write a companion poem for the video (middle or high school) Math: Have the students attempt to estimate the amount of surface area painted during the course of the video (extra credit) Science: Using the position of the sun, try to determine how many days/hours the artists spent creating this work (really difficult...