cccc’s posterous

to view the artwork      http://tiil.us/cccc/expo09/

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3 posts in one, in some ways connected:

I file my claim for unemployment assistance

I am asked to conduct an active search for work....
So this is also a post for Hire!
I am looking for an instructional designer position in a Massachusetts College.

I would like to help...

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see the article from The huffington post

This is the email I received posted by Theodore Panitz:

Hi All,

     I came across this article which I thought would make for some interesting summer reading and perhaps discussion. Especially in light of the recent emphasis on student retention and success. The article sums up the true nature of success in college, in a more articulate fashion than I ever could provide and in a very simple and direct thesis which also applies to how people succeed in life.

     I was attracted to this article because my experiences bear the speaker out. I have never had a student fail any of my classes in my entire career when they have made a good effort! Some students need to make a very strong effort and a few a herculean effort to pass algebra, but when they have made the effort they succeeded. This might include extra help from me or the tutoring available, working with a special support group, getting advising from faculty and staff, to name a few areas of support for students. But the bottom line still remains that success depends upon the student effort.

   My questions might be then

1.how do we convince our students that this is the case and

2. can we really motivate them to make the effort if they are not self motivated?

   Any thoughts?   (That might require too much of an effort to reply... ha ha)

Regards,
Ted

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10:45 – 12:15   Session 3:  Wikis and Easy to Use Online Tools – Hands on session facilitated by Philippe Lejeune

Feel free to ask me in advance questions about the workshop I will be presenting next Tuesday  my email : plejeune@capecod.edu

Visit the wiki I created for our mentor group  http://cccc.pbworks.com to give you an idea of the application...

I will respond to your questions by video right here!

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My Students did a portrait of Obama from one photo I gave them... It's not an easy task! 90% of my students hardly ever drew before taking the class, and all students are required to take at least one art class...
They of course struggled to re-create his expression ( it takes a lot of practice to be able to do so) but I helped them focus more on the re-presentation of the values (shading).  If you create some "simple" shading --one black/ a dark grey / a medium grey/ a light grey/ and the white from the paper (only four values), you can re-create the illusion of volume of anything on the flat surface of the paper and succeed in creating something worth looking at, and that we can enjoy...

                   

Click here to download:

Drawing_1_Hybrid_night_class_O.zip (2496 KB)

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