Scantron is Death
Are we bludgeoning new students with mechanized exams instead of engaging and inspiring them with active learning projects & the possibilities of human diversity?
Are we bludgeoning new students with mechanized exams instead of engaging and inspiring them with active learning projects & the possibilities of human diversity?
A look at your Week 15 Finger Painting Activities, your feedback on the class, and the final points and leaderboard for Fall semester 2016 in Art110 at the CSULB School of Art.
Exciting news, Savannah Avalos of Savvy Parties will be leading our final with a special Snapchat Challenge!
We’re trying Finger Painting and visiting the SOA Holiday Art Sale this week! Plus samples from your Instagram activities last week and your thoughts about EDU-2036. Plus you get to meet UnCollege students Mihir Kathpalia & Allison Bouganim!
When we ask students to write (the GPE / WPE or anything else) are we asking them to write what we want to read? Or are we truly inviting them to think new thoughts in their own time, for their generation, and in their century?
We’re meeting in the classroom, FA4-311, for the last time this week. We’ll talk about The Final, (have a potluck?) Websites, ePortfolios, and of course, Classmate Conversations!
WP Campus, a WordPress group focused on Education, is holding a virtual conference in January. This is a copy of the proposal I submitted for “Using WordPress for Student ePortfolios”
A copy of my proposal for TEDxCSULB 2017: “Burn the University Catalog: real lessons from fake universities”
We’re in the classroom, FA4-311 with visiting artist Carla Dauden helping to inspire our vlogs & eportfolios this week. Next week: vegan turkey!
Filmmaker and activist Carla Dauden visits Art110 this week for a conversation about media, careers, and having a voice in your culture. Bring your questions!
Wednesday was a bad day. A man who preached hate and division was elected president of the United States. But it was also a day that students raised their voices with a power you don’t often hear. Was it a good day?
Thinking about Social Media. It’s useful. You can build audiences, brands & careers. But is it so formulaic that we’ve crushed the human spirit to get there?
Lots of cool Twine & Scantron EC projects! Classmate conversation triptychs. What is art? Abstraction & Representation.
Final workshop session on the academic & the community and social media.
Lydia challenges Y-O-U to take those Scantrons you’re sick of and turn them into cool art pieces!
Coooool Fiber Art Social Network last week! This week we hang out at the SOA Galleries for conversations!
A panel discussion on the future of the university turned into a sort of Donald Trump rally as students left behind by “academic globalization” protested The Hall of Science Building as if it were a Goldman Sachs bank bailout.