Video: TED talk - Jessica Pabon on women graffiti writers

Jessica is writing her dissertation (book) now, and we hope it will be accessible to the public when it's published.

Teach yourself what you need to know - with free online resources

So education costs too much and the good stuff is always someplace you aren't, so the web is stepping up to help you help yourself. After all, we really educate ourselves, when it comes right down to it.

Stanford University in California USA started offering some excellent university courses free online. This is what's on right now, for example:
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/september/online-courses-fall-090712.html

More about free online courses at Stanford: http://online.stanford.edu/

Webmaker from Mozilla (maker of the awesome open-source Firefox browser) is now making it easy for you to teach yourself how to build your own cool stuff on the web: https://webmaker.org/en-US/

Copyright and media law - how to protect yourself:
http://www.citmedialaw.org/legal-guide/fair-use

MITx, HarvardX and BerkeleyX:
EDX

MIT:
http://ocw.mit.edu

Coursera:
https://www.coursera.org

Khan Academy:
http://www.khanacademy.org

Codeacademy:
http://www.codecademy.com

Programr:
http://www.programr.com

Cheap design and web tutorials at Lynda.com: Pay as little as a dollar per day for all you can learn: tutorials on design, photography, audio, video, business, and getting up to speed on various software tools, like Photoshop and Dreamweaver:
http://www.lynda.com/membership?btn=supbtncd_newsite

P2PU - learn with others:
https://p2pu.org

Edupunk's Guide to a DIY Credential:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/60954896/EdupunksGuide

Do you write graffiti in China? 你写在中国涂鸦？

[A student in Holland sent me this request for participation in his research. He is sensitive to the security issues Chinese writers face and has agreed to keep answers confidential to his university. If you are in China and you want to respond, please be careful how you send the message, however, as many email routes are monitored by the Chinese government. - Susan

Google Chinese translation: 在荷兰的学生给我这个在他参与研究的要求。他是敏感的安全问题面临的华文作家，已同意将他的大学保密答案。如果你是在中国，你想回应，请小心你如何发送消息，但是，由于许多电子邮件航线由中共官督。]

Do you write graffiti in China?   你写在中国涂鸦？

Hi there,

I'm writing a paper about the perception of graffiti art in China for my masters of sociology degree.
I would like to ask native Chinese graffiti artists how they feel about graffiti art. 

- How did you get inspired to start writing?
- What is the underlying message of your piece? why do you write?
- Do you use Chinese characters or the Latin alphabet? or both? And why?
- Does the 'West' influence your writing by any means (like magazines, YouTube clips)?
- Is graffiti in China the same as graffiti around the world?
- Do you see graffiti as rebellion/art/hype/something else?
- What are the consequences/penalties when you get caught? How does the law react on graffiti?
- Is it a strictly urban phenomenon?
- Does communism influence the graffiti scene?

Thank you so much!

Maartje.Weijenberg@student.uva.nl

University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

您好，
我在写一本关于中国的涂鸦艺术的看法给我主人社会学论文。
我想请问中国本土涂鸦艺术家，他们如何感受涂鸦艺术。
- 你是怎么得到启发，开始写？
- 什么是你的文章基本讯息？为什么你写的？
- 您是否使用汉字或拉丁字母？或两者兼而有之？为什么？
- 是否'西'影响您的任何书面方式（如杂志，YouTube视频）？
-在中国作为世界各地的涂鸦涂鸦一样？
- 你认为叛乱涂鸦/艺术/炒作/其它的东西？
- 什么是后果/当你被抓住处罚？法律如何应对涂鸦？
- 是一个严格的城市现象？
-共产主义是否影响涂鸦的场景吗？
谢谢你这么多！

USA: Wisconsin - Scholarships for the arts - W.A.V.E.

The inaugural First Wave cohort of fifteen students began their UW-Madison career in the Fall 2007 Semester and currently there are forty-five spoken word and hip hop artists on full-tuition scholarship in the First Wave Program. We are currently looking for the next group of motivated students to join the First Wave Learning Community’s 5th Cohort in 2011.

http://omai.wisc.edu/