February 2012
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Winter update! Hannah “Minty” Jickling moved away to Toronto at the end of December to do important work. You can see some of it on her website, hannahjickling.com. Early in the fall session, Minty set up a work station with a tarp on the animals hike in the upper field at Howard. Before the tarp was tied down, she took out the flipcam and a tripod and recorded the tarp in the wind. I...
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Blazers Video Contest!
Attention current Student Leaders!!! The Portland Trailblazers are having a video contest called The Living Future. I need FIVE current Student Leaders to help me with this project! I don’t have facebook, so please do me favor and get the word out on your internet. Calling all Trail Blazers: Show us what you’ve got. Grab some friends and create a 30 second video that tells us...
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November 2011
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141 images of Modeling Clay Habitats →
Get ready for a massive slideshow.
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I got a chance to record the Plants wrapup when students from Hosford Middle School were reading their Association Clues. Isn’t Thuja a radical teacher?
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Finally, a Water Hypothesis video!!! Hosford students from 5B answer one of their own questions: What would happen if we poured bleach in this water? Starring Hayden, Simon, and Rowan! This is the cue card that Weasel and I have decided is most helpful.
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Elf facilitates Duff Map on the bluff with students from Hosford Middle School
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October 2011
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Pre-assessment with Sunnyside!!!
Initial Assessment - Sunday, October 30, 2011 Sunnyside (class of 23), Teacher Mary Bierwirth (Mo) 17 of 23 students said they make art at school 22 of 23 students said they make art at home When asked what kind of art they had made before, students described: Manga, sculptures, charcoal drawing, watercolour, and drawing When asked what things could be art supplies, students listed: Anything in...
Oct 31st
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My brother, Ben “Bosco” Starkey, came out to Howard and helped with video documentation of the arts integration project. Here he is, doing some covert camouflaged videotaping of student leaders teaching about the Bird Blind on the animals hike! (Fact: I didn’t know my camera was in video mode when I started recording this. Can you tell.)
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pdxods asked: Can this project go on forever? I love it more than I can adequately express.
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In the dining hall
Staff: So, what field study did you do today?
Anthony from Laurelhurst: The one where we got to make a poem
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Association Poem / Big Leaf Maple Woods
This is an association simile poem by this week’s Plants team! It was written about the Big Leaf Maple Woods. I am celebrating as the season changes I am moving like curtains in the breeze I am vast and lush like a child’s imagination I am like toothpicks on an appetizer tray I am filled with quiet noises like the wind whistling through the trees I am variant like the winds I am real...
Oct 17th
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Pre-assessment with Vestal!!!
Last night Hannah and I got to do pre-assessment surveys with East Sylvan and Vestal. This is what we found out about Sharon Bird’s class at Vestal: All 26 students make art at school, although only half the students raised their hands at first. Later it was clear that they all do, upon telling me what art they participate in at school: •Raindrop Poems made with painting, paper, and...
Oct 17th
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Photo of the Year →
Photo of the Year is an annual photography contest that has been operating since 2002. Its proceeds benefit ODS! Last year was its most successful year, raising over $18,000 for the program. This year, I’d love to see another category in the contest - photographs taken by 6th graders (and perhaps even SLs and teachers!) during their experience at ODS this fall! If it were an option, would...
Oct 14th
During Nametag Signing
Timmy (from Ockley Green): Hey Jingo, I think I have a new hobby.
Me (signing Timmy's wood cookie): Oh yeah? What?
Timmy: Photography. (walks off to get more signatures)
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