Fuller Summary

 

I enjoyed learning through enacting the Wilson/Ionia Collaboration Project--Mind Your Mandalas!  It was a rich experience for me and I hope also for the other participants.  

 

I approached the project as something with which to play.  I am already thinking of ways to tinker with it, reinvent it, build it.

 

I loved working with my friend Mrs. Bewley.  I couldn't have asked for a better partner.

 

I hope our students enjoyed and learned from the experience in ways that they will take with them into future explorations.  I hope students will have more confidence as they go about using technology as a vehicle for their learning and collaborating. They may not have had time to fully crystallize what they learned.  I hope that they will see the usefulness of the project. I hope that they will come to me with ideas about what we can do next!

 

Visual arts has always been one of the places in school where experimentation, solving problems creatively, being ok with changing direction, letting the art take us where we need to go instead of where our egos think we need to go, and a place where ideas are openly shared and used to make everyone better.  What better place and with what better mind-sets than visual arts classrooms for playing around with the idea of using technology to collaborate and invent?

 

I appreciate the opportunity to create this project for EDT 660 at the University of Michigan-Flint under the guru-ship of Jeff Kupperman.  I felt completely supported and encouraged through my failure and success.  

 

Thank you to all who participated! I love you all.