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Julia Query

Julia Query made her directorial debut on Live Nude Girls Unite! As performance artist and comic, she wrote and toured three solo hour-long performance pieces. She established a video collective in 1993 that produced short documentaries. She founded the University of Oregon Queer Film and Video Festival. She supports herself as a stripper at the Lusty Lady. Vicky Funari is a film and videomaker whose work focuses on women's stories and questions of cultural and gender identity. Most recently she produced, directed, and edited “Paulina,” a non-fiction feature film about the life of a Mexican maid; the film premiered at the 1998 Sundance film festival. Funari began her film work in 1985 as Assistant Director of the fiction feature "Working Girls" directed by Lizzie Borden. Live Nude Girls, Unite! Accessed December 2 2012. http://www.livenudegirlsunite.com/film.html.

Gina Kim

Born in Seoul, Korea, in 1973, Gina Kim moved to the US after completing her BFA degree in Seoul National University, School of Fine Arts. Using video diary format, she explored her identity while studying at Cal Arts where she received her MFA in Film/Video. Her works have been widely screened, at Berlin International film festival, Vancouver International film festival, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, short film festival Oberhausen among many others. She directed first feature film Invisible light about two Korean women struggling with their identities. She has directed 4 other films Never Forever, Cooktails, Faces of Soul and Gina Kim’s Video Diary. "Gina Kim." n.pag. Hancinema: The Korean Movie & Drama Database. Web. 7 Dec 2012. .

Ava Duvernay

Ava DuVernay made her feature directorial debut with the critically-acclaimed 2008 hip hop documentary, "This is The Life". Winner of Audience Awards in Toronto, Los Angeles and Seattle, the film was released theatrically and debuted on Showtime in April 2009. The Los Angeles Times raved, "This Is the Life vaults into the upper echelons of must-see hip-hop documentaries."In 2010, she wrote, produced and directed the feature, "I Will Follow," starring Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Omari Hardwick and Beverly Todd. Released theatrically in 2011, the family drama was hailed by critic Roger Ebert as "one of the best films I've seen about the loss of a loved one."DuVernay directed and produced three network music documentaries in 2010. "My Mic Sounds Nice" is a definitive history of female hip hop artists and holds the distinction of being BET Networks first original music documentary. "Essence Music Festival 2010" is a two-hour concert film for TV One chronicling the nation's largest annual African-American entertainment gathering. "Faith Through The Storm" is a documentary for TV One about women in New Orleans who have reclaimed their lives after personal devastation during Hurricane Katrina.Most recently, DuVernay completed principal photography on her second feature, "Middle of Nowhere". The film will be released in 2012. -The Huffington Post, 2011

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Aurora Guerrero

Aurora Guerrero is a queer-identified Chicana raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Guerrero wrote and directed Mosquita y Mari, which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival in the NEXT category. She holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley in psychology and Chicano studies and CalArts in directing. From Seattle International Film Festival and Sundance Film Festival webistes

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Zeina Durra

Zeina Durra is a writer/director. She received her BA in Oriental Studies from Oxford University and MFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Graduate Film Programme. Her directorial debut, THE IMPERIALISTS ARE STILL ALIVE!, starring the French actress Elodie Bouchez premiered in US Competition at Sundance 2010. Sundance called THE IMPERIALISTS ARE STILL ALIVE! " an exceptional work and heralds the arrival of Durra as an exciting new directorial talent" and Movieline labeled her, " Sundance's most fascinating filmaker, ". Warsaw also awarded THE IMPERIALISTS ARE STILL ALIVE! Best First Feature. Durra is currently working on her second feature and other art projects. "Filmmakers." THE IMPERIALISTS ARE STILL ALIVE. N.p., n.d. Web. 7 Dec. 2012. .

Maria Novaro

Novaro graduated from the University Center for Cinematographic Studies in Mexico City. Her first films, Lavaderos, Sobre las olas, and De encje y azucar, were made in 1981 with a super-8mm camera. Later that year she also became part of Cine Mujer, a Mexican film collective, where she directed Es Premera Vez. Her portrayal of the duality of female realities can be seen in films such as her 1983 film Querida Carmen, in which a young professional woman imagines herself to be Calamity Jane in her daydreams. Her best known film is Una isla rodeada de agua (1985), which chronicles an orphaned teenage girl's quest for her mother along the lovely Costa Grande. http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/movies/principal/bio/0,,1972468,00.html

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Glossary of EduTech Jargon

Submitted by blendedlearning on Mon, 04/15/2013 - 10:50pm

The jargon in this field gets pulled from both the computer and the educational industries and can be daunting for the uninitiated. Feel free to submit any additional terms you come across.

adaptive learning. A system designed to achieve the individualized results of working with a human teacher or personal tutor one-on-one using technology. Using a combination of assessments, tasks, and other methods of gathering feedback from students, computers tailor the material and emphases presented to each student, making computer-based instruction highly individualized and interactive.

authentic assessment. Using “real-world tasks” (i.e., a project, a presentation, or a paper) rather than quizzes, to assess students mastery of concepts and skills. Assessments are often based on a rubric.

blended learning. Term used to describe educational approaches that involve both traditional classroom and computer-mediated learning. Under some definitions, the computer-mediated component must reduce time spent in the classroom.

courseware. In most cases, used loosely to describe any digitized resource suitable for in a classroom -- including, for example, a video of a lecture, a text file lecture notes, or a .pdf of a worksheet. Not necessarily interactive.

What will schools be like in 100 years?

Submitted by et502 on Mon, 04/15/2013 - 4:24pm

Just Dewey It

Hi everyone!

I was thinking about the school-drawing prompts from both our group (Just Dewey It) and the group presenting about creativity (CHES)... So this event caught my attention.

I've been following Lynda Barry, an artist/cartoonist/all around awesome person, on Tumblr. She recently hosted a workshop doing something similar to our prompt - but involving kids in the process of imagining. Here are some photos from that event: http://thenearsightedmonkey.tumblr.com/post/47543409124/some-photos-from-the-counter-factual-campus

and here's the poster for the event: http://wid.wisc.edu/content/uploads/2013/03/Drawing-Jam.pdf

Intersections between art, imagination, and planning.. wish I could have gone to this!

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Students Face Tougher Test That Outpace Lesson Plans

Submitted by laik012 on Mon, 04/15/2013 - 4:04pm

I have started reading the newspaper more often and I found something really striking today. The article “Students Face Tougher Test That Outpace Lesson Plans” is self-explanatory demonstrates the issues of our current education system. In my field placement, I often do wonder how much of the school’s curriculum really focuses on the children’s individual needs and also considering their limitations. To what extent is the education system really heading towards the right direction especially if these children’s’ lives are affected by early exposure to stressful situations in this vulnerable childhood development period? Perhaps this question hasn’t been addressed in our class. In terms of literacy, are parents really pushing their children to read beyond their level as fast as possible? Where is the value of failures, mistakes and patience?

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Fieldnotes 4/12

Submitted by abenjamin on Mon, 04/15/2013 - 3:17pm

Glittery Life

New Spring term this week. (still working with Ms. A and Ms. B)

4-6 yr olds with Ms. B

9:30-11:30am

New boy, E (now there are two boys in the class)

E and A (girl) go to school together

E seems relaxed, gets to drawing in sketchbook right away, talks with other kids, tells me his full first name, but he goes by the shortened version

Today: Matisse Fishbowl paintings (sketch). Mixed Media, pink paint table and background, tempera paint patterns, tank, etc. Paper leaves and flowers, red tissue paper flowers in background

More planned out than usual, Ms. B mentions to me, I agree, comment that’s especially good for the first day. (she laughs, jokingly offended by my comment…)

Paint for the first half, then wash up

Story and snack: Ms. B reads while I clean up

E doesn’t want to sit during story time (he doesn’t have a snack), seems comfortable (happy?) standing for this time

After story, go to gallery. New show of animal art

Play I Spy (introduce to Eli, he asks and makes sure that everyone gets a chance)

Rather overexcited in the gallery, larger class, moving around a lot, not slowly, hiding things behind pedestals

Back to rom, add paper and tissue paper to paintings. When finished, kids go into other room to play (as usual) Some don’t feel like playing, stay and draw in sketchbooks. One doesn’t want to play or draw, seemed content to sit with us while others drew.