What better way to learn how to structure art courses than to take a Massively Open Online Course - a MOOC? The arts have depended on one-on-one contact, but the author thinks that in a world of dwindling resources, physical proximity is costly. To conserve the arts of the ages and open doors to new possibilities such as merging Reading and Art with STEM (STREAM), Bill Ritchie wants to design a printmaking MOOC. He is a retired professor of printmaking and believes it’s possible to teach printmaking at a distance. New technologies and trends in higher education show MOOCs work. Because Bill taught in a university where the music and art building were next door to each other, music professors and students influenced him. Now he believes distance learning in music can show him how to teach art this way. At Berklee College of Music they teach songwriting and guitar with MOOCs on Coursera, so Bill signed up for both classes. This book is his notes and the lyrics he wrote for the assignments.Book 2 is a fictional professor's account of an enslaved Russian boy in the 18th Century and is the back story for the song lyrics.The story of Vladimir Chichinoff’s journey begins from two geographical points thousands of miles apart in Spain and Russia and lead to a chance encounter in the San Juan Islands. The professor’s notes inform the reader of events that led to the Aleutian Islands where, on his deathbed, Chichinoff’s ballad tells of his kidnapping when he was eleven."Fictional Professor James Oddly re-constructs this amazing story of intrigue, romance, adventure and historic discovery in a collection which partly solves the mystery of an 18th Century mystery ship, its crew and the cargo it carried. It would have changed the course of history if it had reached its destination.” - from Swipe - a screenplay.