Taylor Mali on What Teachers Make

Taylor Mali on What Teachers Make


Here are some links to the digital stories we watched on Monday night at Starved Rock:

Atom Films http://www.atomfilms.com/home.jsp
Lots of films available at this site

Edit>Love http://www.atomfilms.com/film/intel_edit.jsp?t=mc

The Morning Guy http://www.atomfilms.com/film/morning_guy.jsp?t=mc

Me http://www.atomfilms.com/film/me.jsp?t=mc

Matrix Ping-Pong http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/7939/detail/ or if you don't have Quicktime http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8079411349144989883

Taylor Mali on What Teachers Make http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxsOVK4syxU

Taylor Mali- The Impotence of Proofreading http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjhOBiSk8Gg&mode=related&search=

Balancing Point http://www.senseistudios.com/video/bp.html

Jay Leno’s Phony Photo Booth http://www.metacafe.com/watch/277775/jay_leno_phony_photo_booth/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NCjKbex9wk

http://www.funny-stuff-central.com/videos/5.html

Mitchell Rose Films (We didn't watch these, but thought you might find them interesting.)
http://www.mitchellrose.com/home.html
my favorite: Case Studies from the Groat Center for Sleep Disorders



Suggested by Kathy Fay: (have your handkerchief ready)
Paul Potts singing opera on Britain’s version of American Idol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oxTy7KIAaA&mode=related&search=

Here are the book resources that were on the tables in case any of you wanted their names and forgot to take them down. I added the two Viola Spolin Books (Theater Games) which actually weren't at Starved Rock.

Boxes
Fiction:
Forster, Margaret. The Memory Box
Kurzweil, Allen. A Case of Curiosities

Non-Fiction:
Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space
Fuse, Tomoko. Origami Boxes
How To Fold. Pepin Press


Drawing
Edwards, Betty. Drawing on the Artist Within
Edwards, Betty. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Hanks, Kurt; Belliston, Larry. Draw!
Kaupelis, Robert. Experimental Drawing
Kaupelis, Robert. Learning to Draw
Nicolaides, Kimon. The Natural Way to Draw


Bookmaking and Journaling
Brazelton, Bev. Altered Books Workshop
Eldon, Kathy, ed. The Journey is the Destination. The Journals of Dan Eldon
Harrison, Holly. Altered Books, Collaborative Journals, and other Adventures in
Bookmaking
How To Fold. Pepin Press
Paul Jackson. The Pop-Up Book
Paul Johnson. Literacy through the Book Arts
Koch, Maryjo. Pond Lake River Sea
Koch, Maryjo. Seed Leaf Flower Fruit
Shereen LaPlantz. Cover to Cover – Creative Techniques for Making Beautiful Books,
Journals, and Albums
Perella, Lynne. Artists’ Journals and Sketchbooks
Penland Book of Handmade Books. Lark Books
Poe, Edgar Allan; Kelley, Gary. Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Smith, Keith. Non-Adhesive Binding
Peter and Donna Thomas. More Making Books by Hand-Exploring Miniature Books,
Alternative Structures, and Found Objects
Thompson, Jason. Making Journals by Hand
Wilbur, Richard; Drescher, Henrik. Runaway Opposites
Woods, Linda; Dinino, Karen. Visual Chronicles


Theater Games
Viola Spolin. Improvisation for the Theater
Viola Spolin. Theater Games for the Classroom


The Arts and Education
Champions of Change- The impact of the Arts on Learning, Arts Education
Partnership
Ed. Richard J. Deasy. Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and
Social Achievement
Sandra S. Ruppert. Critical Evidence- How the Arts Benefit Student Achievement
Lauren M. Stevenson, Richard J. Deasy. Third Space- when learning matters


Other
Adachi, Fumie (trans.). Japanese Design Motifs
Bailey, David A. (ed); Tawadros, Gilane (ed.). Veil- Veiling, Representation and
Contemporary Art
Berger, Shoshana; Hawthorne, Grace. How to Make Almost Everything
Durrel, Gerald. A Practical Guide for the Amateur Naturalist
Egan, Kieran. Teaching as Storytelling
Elkins, James. How to Use Your Eyes
Fuchs, R.H. Richard Long
Garland, Trudi Hammel. Fascinating Fibonaccis- Mystery and Magic in Numbers
Goldsworthy, Andy. Andy Goldsworthy- A collaboration with Nature
Henderson, Mary. Star Wars- The Magic of Myth
Kemp, Martin. Visualizations- The Nature Book of Art and Science
Lorenz, Albert. Metropolis
Maurer-Mathison, Diane V. Decorative Paper
McSweeney’s Small Box Half-Full of Gems and Itching
Spiegelman, Art. In the Shadow of No Towers


Writing
Epel, Naomi. The Observation Deck – A Tool Kit for Writers
Goldberg, Natalie. Writing Down the Bones
Johnstone, Matthew. What’s the Story
Lamott, Anne. Bird by Bird


Poetry
Adonis; Darwish, Mahmud; al-Qasim, Samih. Victims of a Map- A Bilingual
Anthology of Arabic Poetry
Badikian, Beatriz. Mapmaker Revisited
Barks, Coleman(trans.). The Essential Rumi
Cohen, Leonard. Book of Longing
Cummings, e.e. 100 selected poems
Halpern, Daniel (ed). The American Poetry Anthology
Koch, Kenneth. Rose, where did you get that red?
Koch, Kenneth. Wishes, Lies, and Dreams
Krieger, David. Williams, Terry (eds.). The Poetry of Peace
Luxford, Dominic (ed.). McSweeney’s Book of Poets Picking Poets
Medina, Tony (ed.); Rivera, Louis Reyes (ed.). bum rush - the page
Nye, Naomi Shihab. Fuel


Creativity
Cameron, Julia. The Artist’s Way
Fletcher, Alan. The Art of Looking Sideways
Goleman, Daniel. Kaufman, Paul; Ray, Michael. The Creative Spirit
Kawakami, Kenji. 101 Un-useless Japanese Inventions
Pink, Daniel. A Whole New Mind- Why Right-Brainers will Rule the Future
Von Oech, Roger. A Kick in the Seat of the Pants
Wujec, Tom. Five Star Mind


Photography
Goldberg, Jim. Rich and Poor
Michals, Duane. Real Dreams
Szarkowski, John. The Photographer’s Eye


Essays/ Stories
Kingsolver, Barbara. Small Wonder
Lahiri, Jhumpa. Interpreter of Maladies

Thought I would put all the theater games on line where we could easily access them. I did take Andy's and Christine's email addresses out, but they are in the email sent to all of you at the end of July.

Hope the rest of your summer is renewing and restful.

Theater Games Session I:
Activating Creativity: Risk, Trust, How Problems Become Opportunities, Power of Mistakes (Andy)

Introductions – 10 min. Your key concepts of conference thus far Principles and goals of our work together –

Session 1,we’ll be doing group work, loosening up, trust-building, playing, having fun, building community; then moving to working in pairs, exploring storytelling; then looking at group construction of narrative based on theme and gesture.
* “Hey!”
* Tilt
* Wind in the Willows (see photo below)
* Blind Finger Lead (see photo above)
* 1-2-3
* Tour of a Space

Gestures When I Was A Child:
• Go around the circle, completing the sentence, “When I was a child”
• Develop gestures which essentialize the phrase you chose – everyone stands in a circle, facing outward, develops a gesture, repeats it until it’s shaped, has a beginning, middle, and end.
• Share the gestures in the circle.
• Break into 4 groups of 5, each group combines their phrases with gestures, puts them into sequence. (consensus-building)


Session II Golden Apple Foundation Workshop Activities (Christine)

Building Community: Creative ways to reach group consensus
How verbal and nonverbal information is shared

Introduction to today Guidelines:
Help each other succeed = Keep each other physically, emotionally and intellectually safe
Will do embodied exploration of big ideas: community (ensemble), personal and group creativity

Warm-up “Rusty tin-man” stretch
Accepting and letting go of leadership
Flocking exercise

Building trust and embodied knowledge
Values assessment activity = “Place yourself along a line from 1 to 10 in response to the statement......" (ie., Where were you born? What kind of temperature do you like? I sing in the shower? I love my job? I feel comfortable being creative in my work community? etc.)

First step in trusting others is trusting self and own creativity
“Yes it is!” game

Nonverbal group creation
Sightless walk activity (accepting and letting go of leadership)
Pair walks, Groups of 4 walks,
Create groups shapes: circle, triangle, figure 8, tree, boat, etc., etc. (prompt: act, observe, adjust)

Nonverbal creation and narrative
Handshake statue stories

Verbal and nonverbal, issue-based, group creation
Brainstorm issues of concern to group and pick one
List adjectives/ feeling words re: this issue
Pair sculpt these words
Changing groups sculpture exercise (3 make sculpture and one gets tapped out)

Discuss “Agree/Disagree/Uncertain” as way to explore “truth claims” and build consensus around complex issues

Creation of group story
Participants sit in groups of 5-6 and share story of time when felt most or
least creative at work ----Pick one to create as a group
Create group performances of story using a title, 1-3 images, 1-3 words,
1-3 gestures, and repetition
Show stories to rest of group and described what we “got” from each

Wrap-up discussion: What did you get from today?

A Week at Starved Rock Sponsored by The Golden Apple Foundation

This blog is intended to continue the work started the week of July 22nd at Starved Rock State Park. Twenty teachers were chosen to learn how to incorporate the arts into the classroom. The week was simply amazing. Below are some of the pictures taken. Members are encouraged to contribute photos, poems, music, thoughts and general life ephemera.