POV
The most compelling element of Anthropocene was its use of point of view. The extreme close-ups of intricate, organic designs that we realize are images of destruction as we zoom […]
Poems from a Jar
Т Т Т Raoul Peck, in the introduction of the companion text to his documentary I Am Not Your Negro, said that receiving James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript was like accepting “…a […]
Sharing Fear and Creative Writing
Т Т Т Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein–each year my students experience a love-hate relationship with this classic text, which translates to my own love-hate relationship when teaching it. The text is long, […]
The Kuleshov Effect and Soviet Montage
Posted by Eric Meiring During our meeting this week, the conversation shifted to the way art can affect the perception of the viewer, and, in turn, how these perceptions […]
Community through Video Production
As I’ve started thinking about the new school year, I’m focused on developing community in my classroom – in my AP Lit, Humanities English 10 (my PAGES class), and D-Town […]
Students Answer Life’s Messy Questions Together
We don’t always have the answers to life’s messy questions. Т Through the PAGES program, English I students had the opportunity to experienceТ Girlhood and consider how one teenage girl attempts to […]
In the Classroom: Seven Ways Into The Media Arts Experience
We will screen Girlhood, a film by Céline Sciamma, in a matter of days, and we are busy in the classroom engaging with this upcoming experience in myriad ways. When […]
Big Messy Questions
As we prepare for the screening of the film Girlhood, a story of a teenage girl navigating the complexities of her life, exploring her perceived choices (and lack thereof), a […]
A Take On Speaking and Listening
ELA teachers sometimes gloss over the CCSS’s Speaking and Listening standards. Based on conversations with friends who employ 18-25 year-olds, this is evident in some graduates’ job performance. Our task […]
Cincinnatti Goddamn
On the September 1st, the Wex is hosting a screening of this documentary and the filmmakers will be there for a Q & A. It is free! Once a month, […]
Girlhood Cont.
There’s never enough time, and who knows that better than educators. So in an effort to offer up a few larger themes to think about and potential pathways, here is […]
“When it comes to free speech, journalists should be activists”
Dan Gillmor writes an interesting piece on issues pertaining to Forbidden Voices in an article you can find here:Т https://medium.com/backchannel/when-journalists-must-not-be-objective-fad5aadd8cb3 He starts by discussing how The New York Times recently took […]
Forbidden Voices (Class Word Cloud)
After viewing the documentaryТ ForbiddenТ VoicesТ (and returning to an empty school without electricity!) we created Т class word clouds using wordle.net. We wanted to share them. (We copied down words that came to […]
Media Arts Experience: Meet Our Panel
Meet our panel of for tomorrow’s program. Anisa GandevivalaТ “Anisa is a physician turned manager, turned consultant, turned writer, poet, artist, connector and educator living in Columbus, Ohio. She […]
The Pages Program (Wexner Center for the Arts) 