Some examples include:
Kate Kretz The Last Art Taboo at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84BK4VFRE5w&feature=youtu.be

Zack asked for a list of films that are counter narratives to the stereotypes and cliches:

The disabled person dies, inspiring the able-bodied to live their lives to the fullest.
The disabled person offs him- or herself so as not to be a burden to others.
Blind people have superhuman hearing and can use echolocation.
The disabled person was really faking it all along!
Disability, especially disfigurement, is used to indicate that a character is the villain.
The disabled person needs able-bodied people to teach him or her that life isn't over.
People with disabilities can cure themselves through sheer force of will. 
If you're still disabled after the movie ends, it means you're not trying hard enough.

I begin a list. Please add to it!

* Beyond Affliction (1998) Block, Laurie
The companion web site to the four-hour disability history radio program on NPR. The site contains excellent primary source material. (www.npr.org/programs/disability)

* Breathing Lessons: The Life and Times of Mark O'Brien (1996) Yu, Jessica, Fanlight Productions (use search box)

* Bill Shannon performs with his CRUTCH at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zjfpdRlbbA; stars in Visa television advertisement at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6RGyJirL3g; and Work it Out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxjrBd4WE2U

* Disability Culture Rap: Disability Identity and Culture (2000) Wade, Cheryl Marie & Smith, Jerry, Tools for Change

* Freedom Machines (2005) Stobie, Jamie, New Day Films. There is an accompanying Web site, Freedom Machines.

* Finding Nemo (2003) Stanton, Andrew

* Flawless, (1999, R, 111 min.)

* Forrest Gump (1994, PG13, 120 min.)

* King Gimp (2000) Hadary, Susan Hannah, HBO

* Monica and David

* Murderball (2005) Rubin, Henry Alex

* My Country: The Civil Rights Movement That Created the Americans with Disabilities Act, Ward & Associates, Program Development Associates

* My Left Foot (1989, R, 103 min.) Sheridan, Jim
Based on autobiography of Christy Brown, an artist experiencing cerebral palsy.

* Profoundly Normal

* Pumpkin (2002) Christina Rikki (Directors: Anthony Abrams, Adam Larson Broder (United Artists/American Zoetrope, 2002) Rated: R

* Rolling (2007). (chapter 1, 21:25, ch2 19.10, ch3 14.56)
http://www.thirteen.org/rolling/thefilm/ Produced, Written and Directed by Gretchen Berland. fourwheeldrive productions

* Silent Fall, (1994, R, 100 min.)

* Temple Grandin

* The Collector of Bedford Street (2002) Elliott, Alice, New Day Films

* The Other Sister (2000, PG13, 130 min.).

* Vital Signs: Crip Culture Talks Back (1995) Mitchell, David T. and Snyder, Sharon L., Fanlight Productions

* What's Eating Gilbert Grape? (1994, PG13, 120 min.)

Websites with lists or to search films
* http://www.aboutdisability.com/bib.html#Anchor-Movies-2510

* http://www.aboutdisability.com/bib.html#Anchor-Disability-8050

* http://www.aboutdisability.com/bib.html#Anchor-Videos-53857

* Able to Laugh (1993) Dougan, Michael J., Fanlight Productions (use search box),
Six disabled comics are featured interpreting the disability experience

* http://disabilityfilms.tripod.com/ This site presents a detailed list of 2,500 feature films which involve in one way or another various disabilities. It is directed towards teachers, students and anyone who has an interest in how disability is represented in films. Each category is split into Major and Minor films.

* Video Archives are available at: http://www.jfanow.org/jfanow/


Art Exhibitions:
* Art, Disability & Expression Exhibit of VSA arts (1999) http://www.vsarts.org/gallery/exhibits/disability/index.html

In the second week of October, we will begin a project with students at Penn State and University of Helsinki. Each student should begin with reply "post" at the bottom of this DIIGO topic "TRANSCULTURAL DIALOGUES (Helsinki University and Penn State University)"

1. MEET & GREET: Using DIIGO (with a post to this topic) as the social media platform, communicate to each other regarding metaphors, analogies, and sayings that participants from Helsinki University and Penn State University have heard repeatedly growing up. Explain what it means and how you see the meaning played out in your experiences. In your post, provide a link to a website that you feel conveys the idea. Due 10/16.

DIALOGIC RESPONSE: For response to another there are so many possibilities. The dialogic task is not to see something in a negative way but to see beyond the surface layer of the website selected to communicate the idea of the saying. Focus more on the linked site and interpret the visual culture of that site in terms of messages (without setting up a dualism of negative and positive) in regards to race, gender, and/or social class. Find a different way to look at the familiar visual culture of the linked website, i.e., a different narrative. Post response on a DIIGO sticky note on the website page. Due 10/23.

The full TRANSCULTURAL DIALOGUES project is described at http://cyberhouse.arted.psu.edu/322/projects/3_td.html

Comments to Jillian Wenklar, Annie Seagraves, Sam McCoy on their WebQuest at
http://jmw5602.wix.com/urban-expressionism

Please reply to this topic with the URL for your developing WebQuest.

Are you creating and saving outside of ANGEL? I suggest you go to Media Commons at the Library to set up WIX using that computer lab where there is one on one tech support to help trouble-shoot why you get the message that you do not have an account after thinking you have set up an account. And, also Brittany and others in the class can help if you plan to work in the Patterson lab at the same time. And, if the set up of an account is still not working Yen or I will trouble shoot this with you at the Tuesday class. Write the text in Word so that is saved, and prepare images in PhotoShop so these are saved in a folder for your WQ, so that once the account set up problem is figured out you have the material you have been developing to paste or upload to WIX.

Group 1 (grade 7, period 6)
can't access--is this the right URL
egyptianquest.wix.com/arted322
Ally & Leah

Group 2 (grade 8, period 8)
A Journey Through Time
http://bag5210.wix.com/britandjackiewq#!home/mainPage
Brittany & Jackie

Group 3 (grade 8, period 7)
Urban Expressionism
http://jmw5602.wix.com/urban-expressionism
Jillian Wenklar, Annie Seagraves, Sam McCoy

Group 4 (grade 7, period 4)
Celebrate! Around the World
http://jle2424.wix.com/celebrateworldart
Jenna Eiker and Danielle Allison

Group 5 (Sarah & Brooks missing URL)

Group 6 (grade 9, period 1)
Contemporary Cartography
http://pss5097.wix.com/contempcartography#!home/mainPage
Paula Strada, Beata Szekeres, and Carolyn Schuler

Group 7 (grade 9, period 9)
Social Animation
http://kms5878.wix.com/social-animation
Jessi, Zack, Kelsey

One WebQuest group was looking for examples of youth lead groups working toward social justice. Below are several. If you know of others please add to this list.

Youth Empowerment Center (Oakland, CA) - This is the youth empowerment center website with information about several Bay Area youth organizing groups.

Homies Unidos (Los Angeles, CA) - A non-profit dedicated to positive organizing among Latino youth gangs. The site includes useful research and other related material.

Ya-Ya Network Youth Activists/Youth Allies (New York, NY) - A NY citywide network of young activists, their adult allies & established youth programs. We are anti-racist, anti-sexist allies with the LGBTQ community. We are an activist organization staffed by youth 15-19, primarily youth of color. We organize around the issues that impact on the quality of life of young people in NYC with a particular focus on counter-military recruiting and the links between militarism and other social justice issues.

Refuse & Resist (New York, NY) - A national youth activist network organizing around a range of issues, including Mumia Abu-Jamal's incarceration, reproductive freedom, immigrant rights, privacy and police brutality.

Ruckus Society (Oakland, CA) - The Ruckus Society provides training in the skills of non-violent civil disobedience to help environmental and human rights organizations achieve their goals. The site offers training manuals for non-violent protest and information about action camps.

Global Youth Connect (Mountain View, CA) - Our mission is to build and support a community of youth working to defend human rights and social justice and to inspire and empower a new generation of youth to act for meaningful social change.

The Young & the Restless - Highlander Center (New Market, TN) - Offers the democratic space and the skills for youth aged 15-21 to find their own voices and leadership. The program works with young people in a number of ways, including extensive outreach, field visits, and ongoing backup to support youth activists in their communities; and an intensive, youth-led camp called Seeds of Fire that gathers 20-25 young activists and provides them with peer-based training and experiences that open up the concepts of youth power, critical thinking about organizing, and ownership of their own projects and organizations.

The Center for Teen Empowerment (Boston, MA) - The mission of the Center for Teen Empowerment is to realize the potential of inner-city youth to build healthier and safer communities and schools. Teen Empowerment hires and trains urban youth, including at risk youth, to be community organizers. Our programs are based on the belief that urban youth represent a valuable, untapped resource and can significantly contribute to the rejuvenation of neighborhoods and local institutions.

Seattle Young People's Project (Seattle, WA) - Seattle Young People's Project is a youth-led youth empowerment organization set up to provide young people with a voice to effect social change.

TakingITGlobal (TIG) is an international organization, led by youth, empowered by technology. TIG brings together young people in more than 190 countries within international networks to collaborate on concrete projects addressing global problems and creating positive change.

Youth Action Net The stories of young people from around the world who are fighting for social justice, opportunity, and equality in their cities and nations, and globally.
What Kids Can Do This popular website features voices and work from the next generation in news stories from across the US, highlighting the ability of students to plan, deliver, and learn from serving their communities. Includes an extensive link collection and online publications.

Youth Activist Project Youth advocate Wendy Lesko has collected dozens of success stories from youth activists across the nation. The stories focus on dozens of different issues.

YouthActivism.org Examples of powerful youth activism from around the world, particularly focused on anti-globalization and racism.

Idealist - Organizations Started by Kids & Teens Organizations around the world that were started and are run by young people.

Please reply to this thread with listing your name and the URL to your blog.

Kelsey Shields' blog is at kelshields.wordpress.com

I have all of the URLs up to here linked at http://cyberhouse.arted.psu.edu/322/blogs.html