Monday, December 22, 2008

GOTTA LOVE THE KIDS

I taught my first class a few weeks ago. It was a digital photography class. One of the biggest problems with a digital photography class is having enough equipment for all the students to participate. So, I remembered this concept I learned a ways back that helped me construct a lesson for the students without having an abundance of equipment. It’s titled “Ways of Seeing”. How it works is, you go out into your neighborhood, around your home, anywhere that you have access to, and find the letters of the alphabet in the environment. Now you can’t use any real letters, so if there is a word spelled out on something, you can’t use those letters. You have to open your eyes and alter the way you see, and use your imagination to find the letters. As you do it, you realize, no matter the age group, everyone finds them self on a level playing field. No one person feels as though they’ve got the upper hand, or the inside scoop. Everyone walks around with there eyes open more intensely hoping to spot the letters, and then having to explain what they see to others.

It allows the students in the class, as well as, anyone who participates, to learn how to communicate there vision, and learn how to see someones vision. So here are a few of the images, check them out!!!
















You should finish it!!!

'Q's are the hardest

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