Saturday, August 15, 2009

1:30-2:15pm

Artful Collaboration: Crossing Cultural and Technological Borders

Artful Collaboration: Crossing Cultural and Technological Borders

• Explore what it takes to collaborate successfully across multiple technological platforms and cultural borders with educators, artists, and learners around the world.

• In this session, participants will learn about the successes and challenges of this (virtual) international collaboration in arts integration between a poet in Minnesota and a classroom of 6th grade art students in South Korea.

Session Outline

• Introductions

• View case study video (4 min.)• Facilitated Response from all

participants: Descriptive Review http://opd.mpls.k12.mn.us/Descriptive_Review2.html

• Open Discussion

Big Idea

Collaboration is an art!

Essential Questions:

• How does working collaboratively strengthen distance learning?

• Why collaborate? In what ways can collaboration make us better teachers, artists, administrators, and learners?

• How can technology support and guide our process of learning and teaching, planning and reflection?

Session Goals:

1. Participants will observe and understand what it took for us to collaborate in our project.

2. Participants will offer and take away new ideas for how to collaborate long distance to enhance student learning.

3. Participants (including panel members) come up with a list of the qualities of a good videoconference experience.

View Collaboration

A Case Story of Collaboration via Videoconference Taejon Christian International SchoolMiddle Years Program in the Arts

Poet in Residence: Becca BarniskisGolden Valley, Minnesota; USAwith Year One Middle Years Programvisual arts students and teacher LisaThompsonin Daejeon, South KoreaFebruary 2009(not available as a public presentation)

The Colors of Our Lives

The color of my life is darkness for sleep.The color of my life is Big Bang’s album jacket—“Day by Day.”The color of my life is ice, very clear ice.It is the back of our house where there are many green leaves on the trees.The color of my life is the sky,it is the gloomy color of my artwork,the time when the afternoon sky and the night sky touch.The color of my life is the peachish Indian sunrise only to be seen for a few hours.When I’m angry or excited the color of my lifeis a campfire in my heart.

Collaborative Poem and Artwork by Middle Years Program Year One Art Studentsat Taejon Christian International School with Guest Poet Becca Barniskis

Why use a Reflective Protocol?

Protocols allow us to:• Build the skills and culture necessary

for collaborative work• Create an environment for respectful

dialogue• Ensure everyone present has a chance

to contribute• Make the most of our time• Hold in-depth, insightful conversations

about teaching and learning

Descriptive Review Protocol

1. What do you notice? Describe without judgment. (“I notice. . . “)

2. What questions does this work, activity, or subject of inquiry raise for you? (“I wonder. . .”)

3. What meaning or understanding is intended or conveyed in this work? Speculate on the meaning behind a work or what an artist, teacher, or presenter wants learners to understand.

http://opd.mpls.k12.mn.us/Descriptive_Review2.html

Open Discussion

• What does good videoconferencing look like?

• What does it take to do it successfully?

How do we apply this to our own work?

• How can technology support and guide our own process of learning and teaching; planning and reflection?

• What does it take to collaborate effectively?

Resources

Center for Artful Collaborationhttp://www.artfulcollaboration.com

Perpich Center for Arts Education, Artful Onlinehttp://opd.mpls.k12.mn.us/Perpich_Center_for_Arts_Education_Artful_Online.html

Presenters

• Becca Barniskis, Poet, teaching artist, freelance writer and consultant in arts education, Center for Artful Collaboration - Minnesota

• Lori Brink, Teaching artist; visual arts, arts education coach, Center for Artful Collaboration - Minnesota

• Barbara Cox, Arts Education Partnership Coordinator, Perpich Center for Arts Education - Minnesota

• Shirley Penland, Curriculum Coordinator, Taejon Christian International School - South Korea

• Lisa Maren Thompson, Middle School Art Teacher, Taejon Christian International School - South Korea