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Managing ePortfolios through the Cloud
ePortfolios are going to change the way that we assess students, beyond the arts classes, across all contents.
Amanda Koonlaba
Amanda Koonlaba, Ed. S. is an educator and educational consultant with over 12 years of experience teaching both visual art and regular education. Her career has been driven by the power of the arts to reach all learners. She is a published author and frequent speaker/presenter at education conferences. Amanda was named the Elementary Art Teacher of the Year for the state of Mississippi in 2016 and received the Arts Integration Service Award from the Mississippi Whole Schools Initiative (Mississippi Arts Commission) in 2015. She holds an Elementary and Middle Childhood Art certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. As a coach for The Institute for Arts Integration and STEAM, Amanda is on a mission to ensure every student in America has access to a high-quality arts-based education. She blogs at partyintheartroom.com.
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Creating Courses through Pinterest
Our focus today is using social media giant Pinterest and teaching you and others how we succeed creating courses through Pinterest.
Educator PD
Nurturing Your Creative Self: A Fun New Year’s Resolution
I'm talking about nurturing your creative self, doing what it takes to take your creative mind to new heights, goals and success.
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How to Ask Interesting Questions using the Creative Process
Students must be able to find and craft interesting questions in order to truly be invested in what and how they learn.
Strategies
Reading Comprehension Strategies Using the Arts
Here are different arts techniques you can use for reading comprehension strategies.
Strategies
Tessellations Go Digital
Tessellations are mosaics using small squares to make repetitive patterns.
Curriculum
Founders Drama Lesson
Written for high school students, this lesson correlates 10th grade Speaking and Listening Common Core Standards with Drama processes
Strategies
Opening it up to the Forum
In this technique, students enact a scene and the audience can introduce new characters at any time.
Strategies
From Movement to Meaning: A Study of Synonyms and Antonyms through Dance
One idea was simply to give a word and have the students find a synonyms and an antonyms for that word and dance those words.
Strategies
Are you in the Hot-Seat?
The hot-seating strategy requires deep understanding of a subject, and the ability to improvise while at the same time remaining within character.
Curriculum
Weight in Words Lesson
This words lesson focuses on using dance to help guide vocabulary acquisition and an understanding of adjectives and verbs.
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