Postings from around the Seminar

Third Check In Action Project

I am creating three unit plans. Unit 1: Orienteering, Unit 2: Forest Succession and Tree ID, Unit 3: Wilderness Values. I have half of each unit written. I will have a sample lesson for each unit written. I am going to be teaching a lesson on Tree Identification on Friday in Justin Lagassey’s class at…

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Third Action Project Update

Sine the completion of my training I have been able to implement a schedule with MPA where I go in on Mondays and Fridays from roughly 2:30-5:30 (times may vary). I attempt to have activities started by 3:00-3:30. This provides a sufficient amount of time for the students to transition out of school and hopefully […]

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Action Project Check In #3

Over the past month I have gathered information for my project. When I had first come up the idea of my research paper I knew that it would require a lot of research. As time had went on through this project there has been a lot more information that I am using. This is a […]

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Action Project: Third Update

Things are going well! I now have a large chunk of videos posted on YouTube and posted here (two activity suggestions, my interview with Dr. Goodby, an informative resource for interpretation, and a video on heritage interpreting). I am currently working on another activity suggestions video (undecided on which one I’d like to do) and […]

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AI in Art History

Artificial Intelligence is a very popular topic right now in every field. The museum world is no different. The ways museums are discussing implementing AI is mostly with things like writing the descriptions next to painting and other art or making audio guides and translations into many different languages. Some places are discussing using AI […]

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Project Update:

Most of the materials have arrived for my corset except for my mock up fabric so I will be improvising. The fabric did arrive but Joann Fabrics sent me the wrong fabric so I picked a different one from my stash. I will be starting the actual project this week. I am struggling with the […]

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Transcript: History & Overview

Indigenous history. This terminology makes natives appear like long lost artifacts, buried beneath time. This, however, is an error, a fundamental flaw in our understanding of indigenous stories, lives, and memories. The ancestry of indigenous peoples predates colonial settlement in the United States, and reflects a tumultuous struggle against assimilation, manifest destiny, and the very […]

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