One of my goals is to teach someone else all I learn about digital storytelling. This school year I have been teaching my work sibling ~ BT ~ so he can pass the lessons on to his 7th graders in his media literacy class. Every student in our school, an independent school that services gradesContinue reading “Playing with Rush ~ A Practice Video”
Category Archives: The Rivers School
My Why
I found this note hanging on the bulletin board in the facilities office. Representation matters.
The Challenge
I love being a substitute teacher for middle school students. Today’s 8th grade Intro to Physical Science class had a Canvas issue and could not log in to the system to complete the assignment that their teacher left for them. I had to go to plan B — a logic puzzle. The students, eighth graders,Continue reading “The Challenge”
A Natural Renewal
Jobs often provide benefits of which the folks in human resources office are unaware. I work at the Rivers School, a coed private day school that serves grades 6-12 on 23 acre campus, located 15 miles from Boston with 900 feet of frontage on picturesque Nonesuch Pond in Weston, Massachusetts. During the school year, IContinue reading “A Natural Renewal”
She doesn’t burn bridges, she covers them in gypsy flowers and feather kisses, then strolls along her merry way. Too heavy to carry grudges, she leaves love and hope droplets wherever she goes. — Melody Lee
Today’s Photo
Perspective
If you intend to make a living at drawing, by all means learn it [the rules of perspective] now, and do not have them bothering you and your work for the rest of your life. (Andrew Loomis)
Spanish Essay
Extended Time Still Life
This week 8th graders started working on an extended time still life. They will —for the first time — be required to put 8 hours into the same graphite drawing while learning to find a point of view, add details and hit at least 5 different values.
Glasses
The 7th graders at my school are doing graphite selfies using a grid. They were photographed wearing sun glasses. The assignment is to created something colorful in the lens that shows their personality.
Relentless Robin 