As I mentioned before, of the 10 Priddy Fellows there are only 2 of us who are in the Masters program, the rest are doctoral students. Tonight one of them mentioned that completing the Priddy requirements gets one very close to completing the coursework required for the Ph.d in art ed. I felt like someone should bop me on the forehead.
But honestly, if I had completed my MA before this I would never had pursued the Priddy Fellowship and so its a moot point. I'm just glad to be here. Besides I won't have to write a dissertation, or a dissertation proposal even, thank goodness. But still, there sure is a lot of reatin' and writin' to do! Yesireeebob! That said, it's all really interesting.
I had my two "Priddy classes" tonight, the ones all of us are in together, music and art alike. They are Politics and Advocacy and Mulitmedia. Both are extremely hands on, project-based classes. The Politics and Advocacy class has us out in the community volunteering, attending city council and school board meetings, writing proposals for advocacy initiatives and visiting with professionals from all constituencies. The multimedia class has us learning all kinds of fun software (Pacyderm, Photoshop and others) making all sorts of interesting interactive stuff and discussing a bunch of theory relating to new media and arts education. I can't help but look forward to it all even though it seems daunting looking over the whole landscape. One step at a time.
I'M GOING HOME TO VISIT CLIFF AND THE KITTIES! Tomorrow. I won't be back on the blog until Tuesday. Speaking of one step at a time, my first presentation is dues Wednesday. So the time at home won't be all fun and games. I'll be hitting the books too.
Check back Tuesday for the update.
Have a great Labor Day.
home sweet shoebox
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Kevon Wells was in the neighborhood and said for me to tell you that he's thinkin about you, gettin all your smarts up there. Off to Dallas. Too bad you're not there this weekend. Ciao.
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