the idea: have kids make postcards by drawing a picture and writing a message on the back This is one of my favorite things to teach because kids always write the most interesting things. This specific postcard was made for me by one of my students who is in kindergarten. She’d already made one to give …
the idea: animate 30 seconds of Elizabeth Gilbert’s TEDtalk This idea was one of those that you are forced to come up with for school, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. My last class, apart form my thesis seminar, is called Power of the Image. For the second half of the class we have spent a good …
the idea: take your kids out for a family unicycle ride Boston can be a strange place. About a week ago I was walking to Davis Square when I saw a rather strange thing pass me by. At first I didn’t realize what I was seeing, which is why this picture is taken from behind. …
the idea: take a few days away and then proofread by hand After three years as a writing tutor in college, I have a few techniques under my belt to help people edit/proofread. The hardest person to get to use these techniques is, of course, myself. But as I go through my book there are three …
the idea: take the time to go see the DC cherry blossoms Although I went to school in Virginia for college and during that time made went of the semesterly art trips to DC, I never got to see the cherry blossoms until today. To be honest, I’m sure I didn’t see them right. I’ve been …
the idea: talk to students on their level about their education I spent an incredible day the national forum held by the Arts Education Partnership. In the fall I was a fellow for their database, ArtsEdSearch, where I found and summarized quantitative research articles about arts education outcomes. Part of that fellowship was the incredible opportunity …
the idea: put up a sign for a lost earring So the actual idea, to put up the sign, was someone else’s. However, I have seen this sign every Wednesday for months as I walk to one of my weekly offsite classes. When I first started seeing it, the paper was white and had just been …
the idea: to dye my hair pink for my summer at the Center for Talented Youth For most of elementary school and middle school I was not what most people would consider a pretty child. I suppose I was cute, in a baby-fat-at-double-digits kinda way, but pretty or beautiful weren’t words that I ever heard …
the idea: dye an easter egg with the Human Rights Campaign’s equality sign ideator: Aldon Hynes Although Aldon is the ideator of this Equality Easter (which was based on something he saw on the internet), it is still me writing. I think this is allowed, for the most part, because he’s my Dad. Dyeing Easter eggs …
the idea: start asking other people to write about their ideas on the Idea Blog You may have seen it, or maybe not since nothing really happened with it, but a few weeks ago I tried to start a new project: the Boston Idea Project. Why I decided that now, in the middle of writing my …