Stitch.

1. A place for ideaposts. Idea posts are for things I’d like to do or see someone else do. Email me or reblog if it makes you think of something related, or already done, or that you’re about to do with me.

2. A concoction of things that I like and a few things that I make. I'm especially into anything that helps me imagine ways to connect youth from different cultures in artistic, ridiculous, hilarious, serious exchanges.

3. Inspired by students & teachers I've worked with through projects like these: Inside/Out: Multimedia exchange between students in California and China. The Small World Project: Ongoing workshop series of online youth collaborations piloted in Hong Kong.

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Aug 02
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hk, meet lol

tomorrow, we start the freshly coined Literature Out Loud one-week workshop with HK students. looking forward to supporting therese in this, and adding another workshop to our little growing collection of interestingness. so psyched to have a partner in crime out here…

littlelonging:

i had my eyes closed, floating on my back in the salty sea waves, and looked up to find a perfectly sunny day being engulfed by a large, moving grey cloud on the horizon. it cleared a beach full of bathers in no time, and about 20 minutes and millions of raindrops later, the footprints that had been left idle in the sand had disappeared, the sun returned and people flooded the waters again.

this type of dynamism has marked more than my time here on island shores, as our projects continue to evolve and be fed by the brilliant and forward looking people around us (mainly the Wiseman Institute - http://wiseman.com.hk/ - and local HK teachers and collaborators).

this week we launched a new program in Hong Kong - LOL (Literature Out Loud) - designed after the Paper Picker Press (PPP) project which began at Harvard University under the aegis of professor Doris Sommer in 2006. PPP is a literacy program intended to inspire teachers to adopt new techniques for teaching literature, using various art forms to enhance creative and higher order thinking, and make learning more fun! we champion the idea that learning should be a creative process and a source of pleasure for students (imagine that!), and when you’re making books, painting, creating musical soundtracks and making human sculptures to interpret a literary text, it’s hard not to have a good time - we hope!

this week we’ll host the first Literature Out Loud workshop in Hong Kong, and the following week we’ll host our 2nd Small World workshop of the summer. students and teachers continue to sign up for these workshops and we continue to get excited about thinking of new ways to enrich the content so that it is sensitive and compelling to students and teachers in this context (with their help of course). it’s amazing how receptive teachers and institutions are to creative educational strategies, and they’re right on top of what’s most hip and fresh. one can imagine the possibilities for taking these projects elsewhere and finding similar enthusiasm and poise.

and now if you’ll excuse me, my head is spinning.