As groups begin to understand who they are, regarding practices, personalities, and projects it's important to continue incorporating gatherings where students can articulate their thinking and commitments to their projects and intent. Stuart shared a map he created that showed the relationships between each person's projects. It is color coded, labeled, and inclusive. I suggest stopping in VisArtland to see how you might create something similar as an evolving visual reminder of what connects your group.
The continued focus this week is on research and annotation. Please use your group norms and emphasize the importance of documenting thinking: studio goals and reflections, annotations, concept maps, definitions, sketches, prototypes, professional models and thinking routines. Keep it all.
DO NOW: Professional Model (continued from yesterday)
OR
GATHERING: Sentence starts
Purpose: Share and reconnect with the larger vision of the project and Habits of Learning.
- Circle up and complete the following sentence by taking turns.
- "When I become famous because of this project, it will be because..."
- "Something that I need to gain an in-depth understanding of, in order to do this project well is..."
- ...
STUDIO TIME: Replicate your agreed upon norms for setting and documenting goals, generating/suggesting studio time activities, and reflection at the end of the time.
REFLECTION: Share out a key word from your research and its definition.
NOTES:
- All students will be doing an annotated bibliography this semester. The deadline is next Friday, February 18th. This means that some reading and annotating may need to take place outside of project block time....check it, if you can't stop thinking about your project because you are so intrigued by its potential to solve, change, impact, express something important to you, then reading should be something you want to do. If this is not the case, what do you need to do to modify your project focus?
- Students with year long projects, your staff would like to meet with you. Please arrange a time to meet with your project block advisor, Kimberly, and other staff members who have some background in your project. We'd like to discuss the following:
- What were tangible and intellectual accomplishments from Semester 1?
- What is your specific plan for this coming Semester 2?
- How are you challenging yourself to be creative and innovative beyond what you have already done and what others have done?
- Who are the professionals or professional fields that you would like represented on your end of year panel?
- Probably an EoL will not be enough to share a year of work, so what makes the most sense for a time, space, and environment to share your work?
