Posted in Events on February 23, 2010 by Eleanor Ramsay
Open-mic and presentations. Beautiful view from the ICA! Visit the galleries and mingle with other educators. This is a great event.
Thursday, March 4, 2010, 6 PM
Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
100 Northern Avenue, Boston, MA 02210
Bring your own innovative middle school, high school and college web classroom strategies, or just come to learn!
The event is free, but RSVPs are required. Please RSVP to
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or call Joe Douillette at 617.478.3133. More info at http://www.rymaec.org/
Posted in Events on February 22, 2010 by Eleanor Ramsay
Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education will be taking place in Second Life this year on March 12th and 13th.
If you have been curious about the use of Second Life and other virtual worklds in education, or in the creative uses of SIM 3d software you should try and make it "inworld" for this conference. There will be plenty of freebies and fascinating lectures. See what's happening on the bleeding-edge of e-learning.
Secondlife.com
My avatar, Doomsday Sorbet, will be in attendence. I will also host noob sessions at my private land if anyone is interested.
Posted in Events on November 16, 2009 by Eleanor Ramsay
A heads-up to myself to remember that the Holiday Sale will be December 7-12, 2009, 10:00am-7:00pm in the Lobby of the Tower. There is always a nice selection of hand crafted goods, jewelry, glass and art. Students should contact Elizabeth DiCicco, Director, Student Activities and Programs at 617 879 7710 asap, if they want to sell at the event.
Posted in Events on September 23, 2009 by Tamara Safford
This is Jonathan who is a family member with a brother, Alli (cerebral palsey victim in wheelchair next to him,) Sarah, His Mom, and his sister Seito. Jonathan is making his island.
He and his family are creating together at the Nate Smith House as part of an on going workshop series that is conducted by Ed Pazzanese and assisted by Tamara Safford, Pepper Greene and other guests from Spontaneous Celebrations. The workshop meets for two hours and is still on going...it began a year and a half ago. The Families have different disorders, deaf, cerebral palsey, downes syndrome and autism. The projects include making islands from collage and sculpey, telling the story of the islands (see videos of sign language tellings on Families Creating Together, at Ning.com click on peace sign.)
The other activities of this last year included making memory patches on cloth that become pillows and wall hangings, making dream boxes, (diaramas of dreams in plastic shoe boxes) and dynamic dramatic storytellings with Ibrahim from Israel.
The class is sponsored through Community Partners at Mass College of Art, Art Ed Department and the main participants are Ed Pazzanese and Tamara Safford, Pepper Greene and Lois Bergren.
