Visual Literacy: Rethinking the Role of Arts in Education

Visual Literacy: Rethinking the Role of Arts in Education from cyra levenson on Vimeo.

This trailer introduces a short documentary film that follows students, teachers, and museum staff through a year of working together. Produced by the Yale Center for British Art, the film focuses on the role art can play in teaching literacy and on a unique partnership between the museum and local schools. Through a series of interviews with students, educators, and experts in the field, the film outlines the challenges teachers currently face with writing instruction and the unique role the visual arts can play in child development.

Learn About Your City's Infrastructure.

From section "Energy" - United Illuminating

Here on Nhv.Org, we love infrastructure. Cities and places are like extensions of ourselves; our environment helps define us. Therefore how our cities are designed often reflects the way that we live. How we transport ourselves to work defines each and every morning. How water can emerge from a faucet with the turn of a valve.

Whether we're on a city bus, barreling down Elm Street, or taking a quiet walk through a neighborhood to a downtown work destination, civic infrastructure plays a great deal of significance in all of our lives. Especially when you see a photograph of a place that you've been before; you recognize it, like everybody else who can identify with that location.

A group of Yale Students, headed by Architecture school faculty member and professor Elihu Rubin, took on a project of attempting to understand as much about New Haven infrastructure as possible. The product of their research has been encapsulated into a browsable database; a website called

People's Guide To New Haven Infrastructure.

Subjects include Transportation, Waste and Water, Energy, Parks and Public Space, as well as Telecommunications. Each topic contains data and research assembled by Yale students studying each aspect of New Haven.