Linda Ragsdale is an artist/author/ illustrator/ designer who will teach your students about connecting their hearts with their art. She will teach your students to draw dragons using simple shapes of the alphabet, to tell the story, to sing the song, to create peace within your school and neighborhood. Come join the fun at the Dragon Doodlies and see how the alphabet can build the basics of a dragon with only a few strokes. Students can later choose from the endless palette of colors in pen, pencil or paint; the endless textures of clays, papers or fabrics; and mix and match the solid and stolid independent shades with the regulated and random patterns and CREATE!
There is a story floating around which offers hope for humanity through the observations of monkeys on an island. As the story goes, yams were placed on an island beach to note the behavior of the local monkeys. The monkeys did not like the sandy condiment, so one washed off the sand in the water. As monkeys began to emulate this behavior, one by one, the monkeys began washing off their yams. By now, you are surely wondering what yam eating monkeys could have in common with hope for humanity, but indulge the story for one more moment…
After the one-hundredth monkey washed a yam, the washing behavior jumped from island to island, not through monkeys being transported, but by the power of thought. Monkeys all over the world wash their food because this thought registered in the monkey’s behavior! Do you see where the hope lies? Transfer this story from monkeys to humans and instead of washing yams, drawing peace dragons – peace as the universal thought! Aha! Now do you get the picture?
So let’s create the first one hundred dragons and not stop there. Let’s create millions, billions! Let this be the energy to fuel the entire galaxy with thoughts of peace to endure the lengths of time. Let us be the stars and this effort be the starlight…However you envision peace, show the world.
TIMES:
We offer two sessions for each Vanderbilt Virtual School videoconference: one session at 9:00 AM CENTRAL TIME and one session at 10:00 AM CENTRAL TIME.
COST:
The cost for a videoconference session is $75. This charge covers some of our expenses in preparing your videoconference and testing and delivering your videoconference.
FORMAT:
All videoconferences are approximately 45 minutes in length. The format is about 25-30 minutes for the presentation and 15-20 minutes for an interactive question and answer session with the students and presenter.
Please see the Virtual School website for information and lesson plans for each videoconference topic: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/virtualschool/
REGISTER online: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/virtualschool/registration.htm
Patsy Partin, M.Ed
Director, Virtual School
Vanderbilt University
2007 Terrace Place
Nashville, TN 37203
(615) 322-6384
