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Art Therapy and Political Violence: With Art, Without Illusion
The impact of political violence, war, civil war and acts of terrorism on the individuals involved can be extensive. Art therapy can provide an effective means of expressing the resulting experiences of fear, loss, separation, instability and disruption. Art Therapy and Political Violence brings together contributions from all over the world and from diverse theoretical backgrounds. With contributions from Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Israel and South Africa, the book includes numerous clinical examples to vividly illustrate the main issues affecting art therapy. The practical issues involved are also discussed, including subjects such as the importance of working with both the internal and external worlds of the individual and sensitivity to cultural issues. Art therapists, psychotherapists and other mental health professionals, particularly those working in the context of political violence or in countries of refuge, will find the experiences recounted in Art Therapy and Political Violence thought-provoking and will welcome the wealth of practical information provided.
About Niche | NICHE magazine
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NICHE Magazine
Business Strategies and Wholesale Crafts for the Progressive Retailer
About Us...Published by The Rosen Group, NICHE magazine was founded for the purpose of connecting art galleries and craft retailers with the finest wholesale crafts, handmade gifts and decorative art objects made in artist studios throughout the United States and Canada.
The Use Of Art And Psychodrama In Therapy
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The Use Of Art And Psychodrama In Therapy
by Carol Ferrante-Smuckler, CSW
Artist and Psychotherapist
I became intrigued by the use of the creative arts in therapies through
my own self discoveries while artmaking. I found that through looking at the
paintings I made, I "saw" that there was more to my experiences, to life than
I had thought.
That is one of the mainstays of the creative arts therapies, concretizing our
experiences, fears, joys, pain, conflicts, and offering the possibilities of new
awareness, new ways of being in an animated way. It is an action based, sensory-
based mode of therapy approach that offers a very enlivening, interactive
aspect to the therapy session. Sometimes the body knows what's inside us
before words can speak of them, or at least knows sooner and possibly with
more truth. And as we all know, that which is held or hidden can harm us internally
or is acted out in our relationships, or acted on ouselves through substance
use or abuse.
Art can be used in and of itself or combined with other expressions, such
as psychodrama, movement and writing or music.
I am most familiar with art and psychodrama, which this article will mostly
concern itself with.
To begin, the client is given an array of materials to choose from. The
exercise can be very structured (draw a picture of your family of origin
doing something) or free form (draw what you are feeling today). For a
preliminary, the client can scribble, move his or her body, listen to
music and more. If one were to combine psychodrama with the art exercise
of "draw a picture of your family of origin doing something," the
possibilities are interesting. One thing would be to use an empty chair and
have the client speak to one of the family members and then reverse
roles. The therapist can interview each family member through the client. The client can
use clay to form a sculpture of the family and move it around, or the client
can write a sentence or two about each family member and then give voice to each
person.
Another exercise can be to draw the way you feel inside, and on the
other
side, the face you show to the world. The therapist can then interview each
part in a different chair, or the client may form a body sculpture of the
images.
In a group or with an individual, the therapist can offer a pool of various
animals which the client picks from. The client can act like that animal, or
write what message that animal is sending to him or her.
Through the use of arts, we can expand our behavioural repertoire, experiment
with novel ways of being, make use of our innate creativity, and say to others
what
may not be possible outside the therapy office. All this is done in the
safety
of the therapist's office, with the therapist as witness, or in a group
situation, where the group becomes witness to our emerging selves which now finds
new modes of expression in a social context.
Carol Ferrante-Smuckler, CSW, is a psychotherapist who has been in private practice for over 15 years. She is a certified social worker working in an empathetic, supportive capacity to help people grow and develop and deal with stress, depression and relationship problems. As an artist, she knows the value of aestetics in healing and has training in art therapy and psychodrama. Contact her at Artyist@aol.com or visit her ByRegion Healers webdisplay and her ByRegion Artists webdisplay.
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New literacies : reading and internet technologies (paper)
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The New Literacies: Research on Reading Instruction with the Internet
and Other Digital Technologies
© International Reading Association
Donald J. Leu, Jr.
Syracuse UniversityTo appear in:
S. J. Samuels and A. E. Farstrup (Eds.) What research has to say
about reading instruction. Newark, DE: International Reading
Association.
Abstract
New forms of reading and writing are emerging as the Internet and other
new technologies for literacy enter our classrooms. This chapter
shows how teachers are helping children around the world develop these
new literacies with Internet technologies. It also explores the nature
of these new literacies that build upon traditional reading and writing
experiences and explains why these new literacies are central to our children's
future. It suggests we must begin to include the literacies
associated with the Internet in a broader definition of what it means to
become literate.
Classification schemas for online communities (paper)
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Classification Schema for Online Communities
Jonathan Lazar
Jennifer Preece
Department of Information Systems
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Abstract
A synthesis of the literature suggests that the key characteristics for classifying online
communities are: (i)their attributes, (ii) supporting software, (iii) their relationship to
physical communities, and (iv) the sociological concept of boundedness. A classification
schema based on these four characteristics is presented in this paper. Examples of each
type of community are discussed. These classification schema have important
implications for the design and management of online communities. - klever on 2006-06-21
Vyew.com - Free Web-Based Collaboration -
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What is Vyew?
Vyew is a browser-based conferencing and always-on collaboration platform that provides instant visual communication without the need for client downloads or installations.
Vyew's multimedia workspace enables shared viewing of presentations, files, photos and one's desktop. Included are tools for whiteboarding, annotating, text chatting, and phone conferencing.
Electronic Journal of Information Technology
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Case studies in open access publishing. Number one.
The Electronic Journal of Information Technology in Construction (ITcon): an open access journal using an un-paid, volunteer-based organization.
Bo-Christer Björk
Swedish School of Business Administration, Helsinki, Finlandand
Žiga Turk
University of Ljubljana, FGG, Construction Informatics,
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Abstract
Introduction This case study is based on the experiences with the Electronic Journal of Information Technology in Construction (ITcon), founded in 1995.
Development This journal is an example of a particular category of open access journals, which use neither author charges nor subscriptions to finance their operations, but rely largely on unpaid voluntary work in the spirit of the open source movement. The journal has, after some initial struggle, survived its first decade and is now established as one of half-a-dozen peer reviewed journals in its field.
Operations The journal publishes articles as they become ready, but creates virtual issues through alerting messages to “subscribers”. It has also started to publish special issues, since this helps in attracting submissions, and also helps in sharing the work-load of review management. From the start the journal adopted a rather traditional layout of the articles. After the first few years the HTML version was dropped and papers are only published in PDF format.
Performance The journal has recently been benchmarked against the competing journals in its field. Its acceptance rate of 53% is slightly higher and its average turnaround time of seven months almost a year faster compared to those journals in the sample for which data could be obtained. The server log files for the past three years have also been studied.
Conclusions Our overall experience demonstrates that it is possible to publish this type of OA journal, with a yearly publishing volume equal to a quarterly journal and involving the processing of some fifty submissions a year, using a networked volunteer-based organization.
Wikalong Firefox Extension
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Wikalong
A wiki-margin for the internet.
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What is Wikalong?
Wikalong is a Firefox Extension that embeds a wiki in the Sidebar of your browser, which corresponds to the current page you are viewing.
In its simplest form, a wiki-margin for the internet, but it can be much more.
We need to finalize a logo.
What are some possible uses?
Gibeo Network ☆ Community Web Annotation & Content Aware Tools
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Shared Web Annotation & Content Aware ServicesThe next Google of Web EvolutionHuh? Cool! TechnoGeek
It's easy, simply register and then view web sites through gibeo.net
and we instantly and transparently add cool stuff to every page from anywhere and with any browser.
Select any text on any page and a menu will pop up, allowing
you to highlight that text so that everyone can see it.
Who hasn't been at a site and wanted to yell "this is
wrong!" or "wow, that's amazing"? Now you can, and you can share it with your friends, instantly
search, translate, or blog it.
Sound like fun? It is ;-)
A nerdy new content services platform that opens up the web's data layer and makes it
accessible to enhance and reuse the knowledge as it flows.
Web pages in transit are intelligently transformed and extended to add 3rd
party content and tools to enhance and empower.
The Pandora's Box of content delivery is now wide open, finally enabling
transparent shared web annotation, a wealth of capable in-page tools, and powerful developer access.
You will be impressed.
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