the idea: re-draw the word “idea” in the header so that it doesn’t look like “saga” I have spent a fair amount of time recently redesigning my website so that the Idea Blog is at the center of it. This makes sense, I’ve been told, since the blog is what I update most constantly while …
the idea: combine a green smoothie with a fruit smoothie I am a generally a healthy person, at least as healthy as it’s possible to be on as a graduate student. Mostly this is because if I’m not I feel awful. Recently I’ve been talking to my mother the health-food guru about some things I can …
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 …