SEATTLE 2011 - Presentation Proposals

[Dana Jung Munson]

Now is the time to begin thinking about what you will present or what you are interested in

seeing at the next convention. Our next convention is one shorter so we really need to make sure we make the best use of our time at the convention.

Please use this discussion forum to brainstorm ideas. Our convention theme of 2011 is Creativity and as secondary teachers we will be exploring how Visual Journals can be used in terms of an assessment or process tool?

[Rosie Riordan]

I need volunteers for a round table session called creative connections? What do we want to focus on? Subjects, ideas? Who is interested? Lets hear from you people. Rosie Riordan

[Diane Scully]

The NAEA is working on bringing you another great professional development opportunity at the NAEA Convention scheduled for Seattle, March 17-20, 2011. The theme of the convention is Creativity, Imagination and Innovation.

We are in the planning stages for the convention and we wanted to use the ning to help secondary teachers connect to be co-presenters, panel participants, get new thoughts and ideas bubbling out there in the field. I know the following changes, based on your great feedback, will be taking place so far:

1. We will have fewer sessions since the convention is one day less in length.

2. We are striving for high quality sessions, which have more teachers participating in presenting.

3. We will be having one Conversation With Colleagues Session which will run 90 minutes (instead of our usual 2-one hour time slots).

4. We are having two Roundtable Sessions coordinated by myself and Rosie Riordan. Please contact us either of us through the ning or on this forum if you are interested in presenting at one of these two sessions. One will be based on our Secondary theme of using Visual Journals as assessment/process tools and the other will focus on the convention theme of Creativity, Imagination and Innovation in Art Education.

5. We will be vetting the hands-on workshops to assure quality sessions.

6. We will be having our annual awards luncheon and the authors & reviewers of the NAEA Lesson Planning Gallery will be acknowledged at that event.

7. The division directors are honing the lesson planning gallery process as I write this. Look for more information about this item in the summer issue of NAEA News. It will be great, colorful, informational summer reading to take to the beach, lake or mountains.

8. The six division directors are again coordinating some cross-divisional sessions jointly.

So please use this forum to find other secondary teachers to present with in Seattle.

Use this forum to communicate with me if you want your Baltimore session posted to this ning for everyone to share. Also let me know if you would like to have your visual journal ideas be published on the NAEA Secondary Division page.

Also contact me if you are in need of information about running for the future secondary division director position.

And you thought that we just had the end of the school year and graduation to deal with!?!

Take care,
Diane Scully
NAEA Secondary Division Director

[Debi West]

Hey friends...I am SO glad that we are bringing back the "roundtable"discussions! This was SO successful at the elementary level years ago, "A Kaleidoscope of Learning"...I think we did it consecutively for 4 years!

I am very interested in being a part of either session Rosie. I have a wonderful book / visual journal lesson that I use as THE assessment tool to wrap up the semester, really powerful and the students LOVE it and garner a lot out of it...I would be happy to present that!

Keep me posted and holler if I can help in any way!
We have 1 more week to go...another incredible year down, 8 more to go! c:

Debi

[Lauren Kolesar-Eatinger]

During the next convention, I would benefit from a "back to basics" approach to drawing---motivating and encouraging Art I students to approach a still life drawing/ observational drawing/ portrait drawing....

So many Art I students are registered for the class because of needing the fine arts credit for graduation---I would like to hear experienced teachers share their methods for reaching and teaching students who are "shut down."

[Dana Jung Munson]

I wrote a grant this year for using the Ning with my DP students. They had to "become" a famous artist online. We visited a great show on the inspiritation for Da Vinci's genius and then researched our own artists. I had a teaching drama artist do a one day workshop on character development and off they went. We culminated the experience with artist trading cards and a class presentation of the artists. I am interested in presenting my project and discussing how technology can be incorporated in our art classrooms.

Pablo Munson-Casso (AKA Dana Munson)