Saturday, February 1, 2014
Responses from last week
Response to Kelley Schotte:
Your genealogy is so well thought out with the rain drops and dead leaves and other aspects. I completely relate to responding more to the bad educators as a push to make education better for the future generations. I had a few of those and noticed that I found myself saying "I will never be like that teacher". I also noticed that while I do remember those bad teachers I have since forgotten their names, I guess that would a be a respect thing.
Response to Beth:
I really like your metaphor of the cookie and ingredients. I also really the cat fur part, so relatable and easy to understand. I guess if the cookie is good enough you can secretly pick the fur out and continue eating. Much like the negative people in our lives, we can just pick them out of your life and move on
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Assignment 1. Intro, Reflection, Lineage
Intro:
I am in my first year of teaching as well as my first year of graduate school. I graduate with my undergraduate degree from Mizzou in Art Education, and I decided that it was he place I wanted my advanced degree as well. It has been a busy year combining my first years together but I am happy that I am doing it now with all of the great people I am having a chance to meet through this program. Marshall High School is treating me well, and my family is healthy and happy.
Reflection:
I thought that this article was good, for the most part. Of course, I think the most important is being passionate about teaching young artists. Also, organization is one that I am good and bad at. I am a list maker and a calendar filler, however, with everything that I am juggling right now, my organization at school is suffering. But, The one I am most interested in is number 4. It's is not that I don't understand how school plays a role in a students life, but it is my students that do not understand. My Art 1 classes, that are made up of mainly freshmen, are so very frustrating. The other art teacher and I have tried so hard to make everything fun, and creative, but they just don't care. I feel like they think that we don't understand what they are going through. I want to work more on showing them that I care that their "lives suck" sometimes, and that I am not going to leave them behind, especially when they are getting left behind in so many other classes. I would give myself a 2 on these strategies. I think I excel in some areas and do well in others, but there are ones that I know I need to work on.
Lineage: For my lineage I found myself thinking about a game board. Trying to get to a goal/degree with ups and downs. With that in mind the only game I could think of is chutes and ladders. I noticed in mine that I had many ups and downs with the same teacher. I had the same art teacher K-6 and Again in high school. I noticed that I had many more positive experiences with her in high school, I think because high school was her preference. One moment stuck out in my mind as negative; I was in 6th grade and we were doing a halloween or winter landscape (not sure which), we were using oil pastels and I was shaving the sides of the pastel with my fingernail because I thought it looked like snow and it made it different from anyone else's. She told me to stop, and that I was "hurting" the supplies. I was so afraid after that to do something outside of the rules that my artwork looked like everyone else's he rest of the year. But I have also had amazing teacher as well, a lot in the college level.
I am in my first year of teaching as well as my first year of graduate school. I graduate with my undergraduate degree from Mizzou in Art Education, and I decided that it was he place I wanted my advanced degree as well. It has been a busy year combining my first years together but I am happy that I am doing it now with all of the great people I am having a chance to meet through this program. Marshall High School is treating me well, and my family is healthy and happy.
Reflection:
I thought that this article was good, for the most part. Of course, I think the most important is being passionate about teaching young artists. Also, organization is one that I am good and bad at. I am a list maker and a calendar filler, however, with everything that I am juggling right now, my organization at school is suffering. But, The one I am most interested in is number 4. It's is not that I don't understand how school plays a role in a students life, but it is my students that do not understand. My Art 1 classes, that are made up of mainly freshmen, are so very frustrating. The other art teacher and I have tried so hard to make everything fun, and creative, but they just don't care. I feel like they think that we don't understand what they are going through. I want to work more on showing them that I care that their "lives suck" sometimes, and that I am not going to leave them behind, especially when they are getting left behind in so many other classes. I would give myself a 2 on these strategies. I think I excel in some areas and do well in others, but there are ones that I know I need to work on.
Lineage: For my lineage I found myself thinking about a game board. Trying to get to a goal/degree with ups and downs. With that in mind the only game I could think of is chutes and ladders. I noticed in mine that I had many ups and downs with the same teacher. I had the same art teacher K-6 and Again in high school. I noticed that I had many more positive experiences with her in high school, I think because high school was her preference. One moment stuck out in my mind as negative; I was in 6th grade and we were doing a halloween or winter landscape (not sure which), we were using oil pastels and I was shaving the sides of the pastel with my fingernail because I thought it looked like snow and it made it different from anyone else's. She told me to stop, and that I was "hurting" the supplies. I was so afraid after that to do something outside of the rules that my artwork looked like everyone else's he rest of the year. But I have also had amazing teacher as well, a lot in the college level.
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Meaning day
I think that our group went swimmingly! It was a very reflective day, and as Dr. Unrath said on my blanket station, this was almost the perfect day to do these activities. After being so busy the last couple of weeks, I think it was good for us to reflect on what is important and what we want to make meaning in our lives. The feedback that we got about the labyrinth that we had to walk though was great. The discussions about energy being felt between people was amazing. I did not get a chance to walk the labyrinth that day but I plan to go back to experience by myself.
Empathy Day and Meaning Chapter
The empathy group did great, the activity was so interesting that the story we started with, not even a story, more of a moment in time, that we told was translated from word, to art, to song. And I don't know abut anyone else, but the song that was chosen by someone who didn't hear my story fit perfectly. It is fantastic how our minds work, and how our artist eyes and thinking make connections from just seeing an image. GREAT JOB!
Meaning is what ties everything together that we have read that past two weeks. It is why we are here. Meaning is what keeps this life going. Without meaning, life would be boring. We would have nothing to talk about. We would have nothing to create. What would be the point if nothing had meaning and we didn't create meaning in our lives?
Meaning is what ties everything together that we have read that past two weeks. It is why we are here. Meaning is what keeps this life going. Without meaning, life would be boring. We would have nothing to talk about. We would have nothing to create. What would be the point if nothing had meaning and we didn't create meaning in our lives?
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Symphony and Empathy
The symphony lesson today went really well. All of the visuals the group showed us were fantastic. I really enjoyed La Luna, I had never seen that Pixar Short before. Thinking of the metaphors was VERY difficult for me this morning through. I don't know if it was because I am so tired, or that the metaphor portion of the lesson seemed rushed, but I had a hard time. I did like the shadow art, and the ones that were shown were unbelievable! Oh just kept saying "no Way" to all of the photos shown because I just couldn't believe that a pile of stuff could make those shadows! AMAZING! Great lesson!
While reading empathy I just couldn't help thinking of my husbands job. He is a debt collector for people that don't pay their medical bills. I know that there are people out there that don't pay their bills just because they think they can get away with it, but when he comes home and tells me some stories, I can't help but feel bad for some people. There are people that have lost their jobs because of health reasons, and in those situations I know that things go downhill quickly. I know that Corey feels bad for these people ( I know I do) but there is nothing he can do really, it is his job to get te money from him. I just think that that job is a lesson in empathy, or no empathy I guess. I know I would be awful at that job. But, like Pink says, empathy is a quality that is being looked for in todays workforce. I think that teaching empathy would be fairly easy because I do feel like the new generation is a lot more accepting of people a little bit different from them.
Another thing in the chapter I related to was the eavesdropping section, mostly because I do that, I'm a slight creeper sometimes. I don't do it all of the time but when I'm in restaurant that has booths I tend to listen to the people in the booth directly behind me. I don't mean to, but it happens, and I listen to their stories, and get very intrigued. I get sucked into stories of other people.
While reading empathy I just couldn't help thinking of my husbands job. He is a debt collector for people that don't pay their medical bills. I know that there are people out there that don't pay their bills just because they think they can get away with it, but when he comes home and tells me some stories, I can't help but feel bad for some people. There are people that have lost their jobs because of health reasons, and in those situations I know that things go downhill quickly. I know that Corey feels bad for these people ( I know I do) but there is nothing he can do really, it is his job to get te money from him. I just think that that job is a lesson in empathy, or no empathy I guess. I know I would be awful at that job. But, like Pink says, empathy is a quality that is being looked for in todays workforce. I think that teaching empathy would be fairly easy because I do feel like the new generation is a lot more accepting of people a little bit different from them.
Another thing in the chapter I related to was the eavesdropping section, mostly because I do that, I'm a slight creeper sometimes. I don't do it all of the time but when I'm in restaurant that has booths I tend to listen to the people in the booth directly behind me. I don't mean to, but it happens, and I listen to their stories, and get very intrigued. I get sucked into stories of other people.
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Stories
The story lesson was great. It went along really well with Pink's chapter on story. It was really nice getting to know people a lit more through story that what I knew before. You can learn so much about a person through the experiences they share through their art, and if it weren't for people's stories, art would not be as meaningful. I really enjoyed the art activity that the group put together, however I wish I could have had more time to do better work on it.
Symphony sounds like it might be fun. The method Pink demonstrates sounds lit like a project I did in a beginning drawing class in Warrensburg. The teacher started with a very blurry picture and told us to start drawing. All we could do was draw the light and dark areas, also, we could not pick our pencils upu from the paper, so as long as the picture was up our hands were moving. Soon we realized that we were drawing a picture of a person, and we look down at our scribble filled paper to find that we have drawn, very successfully, the same picture. It was surprising to see that we did that. It is just amazing how our brains work, and how, like PInk says, everything is relative to something else. Lights, darks, positive and negative shapes, or colors next to colors. It all depends on what it is next to.
Symphony sounds like it might be fun. The method Pink demonstrates sounds lit like a project I did in a beginning drawing class in Warrensburg. The teacher started with a very blurry picture and told us to start drawing. All we could do was draw the light and dark areas, also, we could not pick our pencils upu from the paper, so as long as the picture was up our hands were moving. Soon we realized that we were drawing a picture of a person, and we look down at our scribble filled paper to find that we have drawn, very successfully, the same picture. It was surprising to see that we did that. It is just amazing how our brains work, and how, like PInk says, everything is relative to something else. Lights, darks, positive and negative shapes, or colors next to colors. It all depends on what it is next to.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Design
The design lesson today gave me the sense that I do think like a designer sometimes. The whole time we were trying to figure out a design to go on the billboard I was just thinking "can I read that from a car?" I think the group I was with did a pretty good job with the phrase we were given. I also thought that this lesson can show students that there is more in the art field than just a starving artist or an art teacher. Giving the parameters that is can only be this size, we only have this much money, and you cannot change the phrase that the other person gave you, and time restraint gives them a taste of how designers work (although, I believe we are much easier on each other than other boss' might be).
I am also sensing a theme in the sense groups so far in having a sense of now knowing in the activities we are doing. It causes me a little anxiety but it is helping in my own development of my unit plan.
I really enjoyed the story chapter by Pink. Having story in art, or anything really, gives it meaning. It calls on personal experiences to make other things meaningful. I am looking forward to see what the story group comes up with for the class.
I am also sensing a theme in the sense groups so far in having a sense of now knowing in the activities we are doing. It causes me a little anxiety but it is helping in my own development of my unit plan.
I really enjoyed the story chapter by Pink. Having story in art, or anything really, gives it meaning. It calls on personal experiences to make other things meaningful. I am looking forward to see what the story group comes up with for the class.
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