Arts Educators Special Interest Group
This SIG’s purpose is to create a community of arts educators who regularly make use of technology to enhance teaching and learning and therefore help arts educators connect, collaborate, and share best practices. This SIG will also recruit and include educators who infuse arts-through-technology into their various disciplines and to help make explicit connections between arts and technology standards.
Announcements:
Notes from 10-22 SIG conference call with ISTE
- Updates from SIGs - wow, some of the SIGs have a lot going on!
- Election process opens in January. Audrey will send the SIG organizers more information.
- ISTE 2010
- update on forums
- Sunday afternoon member welcome has grown; thinking about providing time after member welcome and before keynote for SIG networking, time to meet and greet SIG officers
- If SIGs are interested in having newsletters but don't have the volunteers to do that, might ISTE provide a template?
- Budgets - ISTE is making changes to budgets. They asked for feedback about this. Someone mentioned providing guidelines for how to use budgets, and also some examples of how different SIGs are using $$.
Call for proposal review committee
Leslie Gates will be leading the committee to review conference proposals in Digital Age Teaching & Learning/Arts for ISTE 2010. If you are interested in serving on the committee, please
contact Leslie.
Notes from 8-13 conference call with ISTE
Conference news:
- ISTE is definitely interested in making the arts an area of focus in the future.
- We talked about ways to improve the Digital Arts Playground to make it more of a "home base" for arts educators at the 2010 conference. One idea was to add a Promothean board and comfortable seating to the Playground to allow informal teacher-to-teacher sharing sessions. I'd love your feedback on that.
- Proposals for the arts are lumped right now under "other subjects". There is a proposal chair who is in charge of reviewing conference proposals in each subject area. I will keep you posted as to if and how we can become involved in the approval process for 2010.
- Once proposals are approved by the review committees, each SIG can choose up to 20 sessions to sponsor. When the time comes to do this, we will need every member's input.
- The request for conference proposals will go out on September 7 and be due on October 9. It's time now to talk to everyone you know about submitting a proposal so that we have quality arts sessions to choose from. The RFP will be posted on the ISTE 2010 site - http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/2010/.
- Toward the end of the call, an idea was floated that we use time at the conference in Denver to create a collaborative piece of multimedia art. If we structure it right, this could include people who cannot attend the conference and students, as well.
Other news:
- ISTE is pleased that we are moving forward to formalize leadership. We need to figure out the best way to do this long-distance.
- Remember to take a couple of minutes to share your thoughts on the group structure here.
- We need to be thinking about how we can involve SIG members who cannot attend the 2010 conference.
I have begun threads on these items for feedback on the Ning: http://arted20.ning.com/group/sigae. Please join the group and add your thoughts.
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