It’s a necessary writing strategy: know your audience and purpose. Well, in my latest educontemplation about homework, I’ve been thinking more and more about audience and purpose when it comes to homework. Purpose – Purpose is what drives a writer. Are you entertaining, informing, persuading or expressing an idea? (Your basic 4th grade lesson on [...]
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Over the last few, well, years, I have been really contemplating homework: Why do we give it? What good is it doing? What level of quality are we getting back? Who is taking it seriously? In short, I have come to this sad realization that homework seems to be a more of a hassle than [...]
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I was first introduced to this phrase when I was getting my masters in Arts and Learning from Endicott College. My inspiring professor, Stephanie Grenadier, put these words (from Shaun McNiff’s book) into motion for me. She showed me what they meant by allowing me to follow my own creative process through my classes with [...]
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When you think of the creative process – a learning process – you may think that the person involved needs to be inspired by something and that they are constantly coming up with creative original material. But that is not always the case, nor should it be. In fact, I am a firm believer that, [...]
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A windy road, A straight shot. Hills and valleys, Easy peasy… Regardless of how we get there – it’s a process! Have you ever been in a situation where you knew where you wanted to go, you just had to get there? Maybe you needed to complete a task and there were a dozen things [...]
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My experience with the creative process is quite personal. I started to experience it when I was getting my master’s degree in Arts and Learning from Endicott College. It was during those courses in the various art forms that I was able to take the time to work through projects, persevere through mistakes and rough [...]
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I hear this a lot and have often found myself saying it as well. But after years of dabbling in this and that, I’ve stopped. After trying things out, failing and still enjoying myself, I’ve stopped. All it took was the right people allowing me to explore my own creative side, teaching me a few [...]
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Creative, artistic, imaginative, inventive – these are words that are held at a high regard, yet so many people think they are not worthy of these titles. I disagree! What I do think happens is that we don’t allow ourselves to be those things. It’s a combination of having little time and a bit of [...]
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I’ve taken a break from a major blog series and found myself talking about conversations this week. This is mostly due to EduCon 2.3 – a conference that took place over the weekend in Philly. I was fortunate enough to present with other wonderful educators (@doremigirl, @michellek107 and @kylepace) on arts integration. Lucky me! In [...]
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