ACTEM is co-sponsoring this event again this year.  Please encourage
people to participate.  Last year's challenges led to some very
interesting entries from aroundthe state.

Crystal

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NOTE: Please distribute this information freely - pass on to individuals
you know who will take advantage of it, and post it on to personal
learning and social networks you are a part of. This goes for kids,
teachers, technical staff, administrators, and all members of Maine's
school communities

WatchMECreate ([ http://www.WatchMECreate.org/
]http://www.WatchMECreate.org) is a collaborative effort between ACTEM &
the MLTI. It consists of a series of serious challenges put out to Maine's
grade 7-12 schools, asking students (and perhaps teachers) to
collaboratively develop and submit video responses.  While posed as a
“student challenge,” it is assumed that some students may come to it
independently while others will be directed towards it by a teacher.

The Maine Alliance for Arts Education ([ http://www.maineartsed.org/
]http://www.maineartsed.org) is welcomed as a WatchMECreate Partner for
the first WatchMECreate challenge of the 2011-12 school year - lending
their passion for both creative thinking and action to help assure wide
distribution of the challenge along with encouragement for many student
teams to get involved.

This challenge is called WatchMEUseTheArts. Maine’s Grade 7-12 students
get much of their formal support in developing their creative skills in
Arts classrooms, working with Arts teachers in studio art, choral and
instrumental music, dance, theater and other areas.  This is where
opportunities exist to be purposefully creative, to not simply talk about
“outside the box” thinking and action, but to practice it.

We want to know what Maine students, grades 7-12, are doing with those
creative capabilities after they leave those Arts classrooms.

The challenge asks students to create a 3-minute video response to, "Show
us how the arts have moved, or could move, beyond the music rooms, beyond
the art room, beyond the theater, beyond the darkroom, beyond the expected
spaces to help students like you make their school or their community a
better place for all." 

WatchMEUseTheArts is live on the WatchMECreate web site. Uploads will be
accepted from now through December 15. Entries will be judged between
December 15 and January 13, 2012, with winners being announced on January
17, 2012.

Rewards: The top Middle School and High School teams will each be awarded
$500 to be used by them to help their school move creativity forward. In
addition, each student team member will receive an iPod nano. 

All information is available on the website: [ http://watchmecrerate.org/
]http://watchmecrerate.org

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Thank you,
The MLTI Team