masterpiece academy day 6

Veronica kicked the day off with an insightful look at the music industry. DeBussy said that the music is between the notes; Veronica says musical talent is to be found between the hype.




Summer and Tiana teamed up on the philosophy & psychology of having fun:





Malik explored what he thought were "clashing interests" and discovered that engineering and physical therapy clash like peanut butter and jelly.




Jorge took me back to high school and reminded me what it felt like to try and be one of the Freshest Kids:




Mackenzie helped us see that the sex trafficking industry isn't just something that happens to "other people" in faraway places. The good news is that she and other dedicated volunteers are doing something about it.

Mackenzie DeLauer

Graphic designer Joe and street artist Derek teamed up to show us the difference between making our community beautiful and making it different kinds of ugly. (Glad they found the nighttime tagging video on YouTube before it was removed, and glad that they are advocating for the cause without breaking any laws or doing any harm. :)




Austin gave us the last laugh.

june 3: final

AGENDA:
1. Final exam
2. Fuel
3. Reflection: individual/group
4. Inspiration: program
5. Celebration: acknowledgments

famous last words

june 2

JOURNAL TOPIC: [today's tunes: "School's Out" by Alice Cooper]

You've been waiting for this week for a long time.  What does it signify to you now?  How will you use what you learned in this class as you take your next steps?

AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Turn in essays/journals/notes
3. Plan the finale

masterpiece academy day 8

Notes from Friday, May 30

Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance:





Taylor, Matt, Alfredo, Cesilio & Dustin reported on their visit to Cal Poly's Learning Design Ecologies Studio and how they might redesign learning environments.

Architecture

Alina brought us into the world of competitive cheerleading.




Maggie helped us see how compassion, empathy, and humanity drew her to the career path of a labor & delivery nurse:




Alicja shared an international perspective on how we communicate visually, through body language (below) and photography (here).

Masterpiece Alicja Kmiec

The grande finale of the day was Jacob, who used Open Source Learning to get himself a job, a mentor, and an experience that transformed his future into his present.

open source learning survey

By now you should have received an invitation via the email address you provided yesterday, but just in case here is the link:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RHSclassof2014

If you have any questions please email dpreston.learning@gmail.com.

Thanks & see you Monday!

masterpiece question & archive

masterpiece academy question & archive

For the last two weeks the Masterpiece Academy has been your showcase.  As you reflect on this experience, and your overall experience in this course throughout the year, please address the following questions in a traditional MLA-style essay.  Then post about it to your blog in any medium (music, pictures, video, animation, [?]) that brings your thesis to life.  (You may embed the original paper if you can't think of a better way to communicate.)

Please Note: Everything on the traditional paper assignment counts.  Please proofread and/or ask a friend or relative to help with organization, flow, and mechanics (capitalization, punctuation, spelling, grammar, MLA style, e.g.)


Masterpiece Academy Question

In the first week of the school year we were visited by a newspaper reporter who wanted to understand Open Source Learning.  Since you have spent nearly 200 days on the subject, you are one of the world's most experienced authorities-- now it's your job to be a journalist and report on yourself and your learning experience.  Have you grown/changed through this process?  How?  Have you improved your reading/writing/thinking skills?  How?  Please be sure to address the following elements as you write.

ELEMENT 1: You have been treated as colleagues and you have been given a great deal of choice in this course; this represents a high level of trust.  Did you and the others deserve it?  Earn it?  Honor it? 

ELEMENT 2: Have you re/connected with a passion that drives you?  If so, how will you continue your learning?  If not, how will you proceed?

ELEMENT 3: [Something about literature or this course that made you laugh out loud.]

ELEMENT 4: [A unifying theme that runs through a minimum of five (5) presentations; a quality of the content, or the speakers, or their communication techniques that strikes you as something important that we have in common.]  Please illustrate/support your point with specific examples from the presentations.

ELEMENT 5: Evaluate whether you completed the hero's journey.  Are you a hero?  To what extent did you respond to the call of adventure?  Did you find a mentor, conquer a challenge, and return enlightened?


Masterpiece Academy Archive

To save you some search & scroll time, here are brief remembrances and artifacts from your presentations in chronological order.  (Note: I will be finishing this today--Saturday, 5/31--so if you're looking for something in days 5-8 and don't see it yet, either send an email, look on the presenter's blog, or wait a few hours.)  Please comment to any post that contains omissions or errors.

Masterpiece Academy Day 1 (Tuesday, May 20)
Masterpiece Academy Day 2 (Wednesday, May 21)
Masterpiece Academy Day 3 p.0 (Thursday, May 22)
Masterpiece Academy Day 3 p.1 (Thursday, May 22)
Masterpiece Academy Day 4 ((Friday, May 23)
Masterpiece Academy Day 5 (Tuesday, May 27)
Masterpiece Academy Day 6 (Wednesday, May 28)
Masterpiece Academy Day 7 (Thursday, May 29)
Masterpiece Academy Day 8 (Friday, May 30)