Besides priceless family time and travel, I made the most of my summer with the following:
- VAST at PMA: Visual Arts as Sources for Teaching, July 7-11
- "Looking Closely, Thinking Critically"
- Resources
- Art as Text blog
- Project Zero at Harvard GSE
- Teacher Appreciation Day
- Longwood Gardens
Last day @philamuseum VAST: Visual Arts as Sources for Teaching http://t.co/XbNT4D77ax One activity: spent 2 hours w/ pic.twitter.com/cJifhH1Pvq
— Kevin James O'Brien (@KOB14) July 11, 2014
Teaching For Creativity Institute: "Artful Thinking" - Shari Tishman @ProjectZeroHGSE http://t.co/Z08wDlu6y8 pic.twitter.com/OzvdXurnGJ
— Kevin James O'Brien (@KOB14) July 8, 2014
- Keynote note speakers - unexpected Twitter shout out.
- Diana Hacker - more to come!
- Heaney lecture - 9/11 poem - his obit from The Guardian
- Novel as News, Poetry as Proof: Using Literary Sources as Evidence
- "Is Education the Civil Rights Issue of Our Time?"
- Conversations in American Literature
@CB_Forums David Coleman's s/o @BeschlossDC twitter: priceless #AP_Conf #preachingtothechoir https://t.co/stzUdTJtFu pic.twitter.com/XYv6J8ghmS
— Kevin James O'Brien (@KOB14) July 11, 2014
Why Poetry Matters - Blog
4. Global Online Academy Professional Development Courses
- OLE 1: INTRODUCTION TO BLENDED LEARNING
- final assignment: Selling Poetry
- OLE 2: CREATING & CURATING CONTENT
- - final assignment: Who was Pocahontas?
- OLE 3: DESIGNING AN EFFECTIVE BLENDED LEARNING EXPERIENCE
- Final Assignment:
- CMC (template)
- Harlem Renaissance Project
- Canvas
Recommend:
Drive, Daniel Pink
Promised Land; Thirteen Books that Changed America - Jay Parini
Consider a blog for your class - and your writing...
- Why do we do what we do?
- "Sometimes we have to write to figure it out."
- Thinking out loud - modeling public learning/writing.
Twitter - Just Listen
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