Saturday, August 15, :30-2:15pm Artful Collaboration: Crossing Cultural and Technological Borders

Artful Collaboration: Crossing Cultural and Technological Borders Explore what it takes to collaborate successfully across multiple technological platforms and cultural borders with educators, artists, and learners around the world. In this session, participants will learn about the successes and challenges of this (virtual) international collaboration in arts integration between a poet in Minnesota and a classroom of 6th grade art students in South Korea.

Session Outline Introductions View case study video (4 min.) Facilitated Response from all participants: Descriptive Review Open Discussion

Big Idea Collaboration is an art!

Essential Questions: How does working collaboratively strengthen distance learning? Why collaborate? In what ways can collaboration make us better teachers, artists, administrators, and learners? How can technology support and guide our process of learning and teaching, planning and reflection?

Session Goals: 1.Participants will observe and understand what it took for us to collaborate in our project. 2.Participants will offer and take away new ideas for how to collaborate long distance to enhance student learning. 3.Participants (including panel members) come up with a list of the qualities of a good videoconference experience.

View Collaboration A Case Story of Collaboration via Videoconference Taejon Christian International School Middle Years Program in the Arts Poet in Residence: Becca Barniskis Golden Valley, Minnesota; USA with Year One Middle Years Program visual arts students and teacher LisaThompson in Daejeon, South Korea February 2009 (not available as a public presentation) The Colors of Our Lives The color of my life is darkness for sleep. The color of my life is Big Bang’s album jacket— “Day by Day.” The color of my life is ice, very clear ice. It is the back of our house where there are many green leaves on the trees. The color of my life is the sky, it is the gloomy color of my artwork, the time when the afternoon sky and the night sky touch. The color of my life is the peachish Indian sunrise only to be seen for a few hours. When I’m angry or excited the color of my life is a campfire in my heart. Collaborative Poem and Artwork by Middle Years Program Year One Art Students at Taejon Christian International School with Guest Poet Becca Barniskis

Why use a Reflective Protocol? Protocols allow us to: Build the skills and culture necessary for collaborative work Create an environment for respectful dialogue Ensure everyone present has a chance to contribute Make the most of our time Hold in-depth, insightful conversations about teaching and learning

Descriptive Review Protocol 1.What do you notice? Describe without judgment. (“I notice... “) 2.What questions does this work, activity, or subject of inquiry raise for you? (“I wonder...”) 3. What meaning or understanding is intended or conveyed in this work? Speculate on the meaning behind a work or what an artist, teacher, or presenter wants learners to understand.

Open Discussion What does good videoconferencing look like? What does it take to do it successfully?

How do we apply this to our own work? How can technology support and guide our own process of learning and teaching; planning and reflection? What does it take to collaborate effectively?

Resources Center for Artful Collaboration Perpich Center for Arts Education, Artful Online

Presenters Becca Barniskis, Poet, teaching artist, freelance writer and consultant in arts education, Center for Artful Collaboration - MinnesotaBecca Barniskis Lori Brink, Teaching artist; visual arts, arts education coach, Center for Artful Collaboration - MinnesotaLori Brink Barbara Cox, Arts Education Partnership Coordinator, Perpich Center for Arts Education - MinnesotaBarbara Cox Shirley Penland, Curriculum Coordinator, Taejon Christian International School - South KoreaShirley Penland Lisa Maren Thompson, Middle School Art Teacher, Taejon Christian International School - South KoreaLisa Maren Thompson