education – The Pages Program (Wexner Center for the Arts)

Group Projects

Uniting 40 people with one project is not an easy task. It requires compromise, collaboration and patience. I’m happy to report our class successfully created a group project that added […]

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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 […]

An Essay in Pictures

I worry sometimes that we are losing a little more of our creativity each time we work through the writing process. Typically in AP Literature and Composition, we write and […]

Challenge the Challenges

A couple of weeks ago, after students finished reading parts ofТ Beowulf,Т Т I thought it would be fun for them to create storyboards and a movie trailer, capturing the most suspenseful moments, […]

Tension and Revision: Experimenting with Sound

Several days after Michael Torres visited Big Walnut, students approached me to ask if it was true: Did a man play his saxophone, making it sound like a blender? Yes, […]

Blogging Challenge, Identity and Picassoheads

Task One: This week’s Edublog’s blogging challenge asks us to reflect on our online identity compared to our “real life” identity. Т On my blog site and on Twitter, I tend […]

On Risk-Taking

Т Т Т Educators who take risks in their classrooms stand a better chance of engaging students than those who stick to the textbook or a pre-packed curriculum. Educator risk taking […]

EDULICIOUS! MMMMM, TASTY LEARNING!

I came across a really interesting blog for educators, Edulicious! Т I think it could be an interesting tool to introduce students to blogging in general. Т It has a lot of […]

Guess what we have in store for PAGES next year?

Annie Leibovitz is one of our visual arts experiences for PAGES next year. You will have two choices for visual arts next year. You can only choose one visual arts […]

Epiphany

I’d never team taught until today with Mrs. Dionne Custer Edwards. I was hesitant to, in part, turn my classroom and the learning experience over to a guest and share […]

The importance of Arts education

Below is an article from Guggenheim.org stating the importance of Arts education in school. Т Their study states that including Arts education improves students’ problem-solving skills and creativity. Т This is especially […]

School Blog

Here is the link to one of my school blogs used for summer reading. http://briggslitblog.blogspot.com/ Not much activity but a short clip useful for anyone teaching 1984.