the idea: continue the May Something project by having an on-going project that asks people to send in a picture of their something
A lot of ideas have occurred to me in the past month, however I have been busy implementing them instead of posting them. I was also doing my daily blog post through the May Something project, where I posted a picture of something that someone had made every day in May as a countdown to my book launch.
One of these ideas was to continue the May Something project by having a place on DMAJMS.com where I could always post pictures of something that someone has made. This on-going project is called What’s Your Something? and I encourage everyone to send something in!
My first submission came just last week from Patricia Robertson, a retired elementary school teacher out in Seattle. Here’s what she has to say about her something:
“I’m from Seattle, which you may or may not have heard is the center of one test-rejection movement: Scrap the MAP. It was a move by the teachers at Seattle’s Garfield High School to reject the school district’s use of the Measures of Academic Progress, because it had so little relation to what they were teaching. They refused to administer it. Interesting outcomes, including the superintendent’s decision to NOT require the MAP at our district’s 10 high schools.
“I am an admirer of Northwest Coast Native American Art, and I do woodcarving and make other related objects. I’m attaching one of the things I have made, a drum with a painted figure of a raven.”
A huge thank you to Patricia who will hopefully be the first of many to share something they’ve made!