Today Kaori Lau and Neesha B came to speak to us today about Inclusion within the classroom. We stared by talking about identity through an activity that highlighted a personal trait you have and how it connects back to teaching. I had talked about my struggle with claiming my own identity when I am incredibly white passing before to classmates and friends but today I decided to keep it to myself.
I really enjoyed their talk and points about access, I often think this is overlooked and often taken for granted. Something I am always thinking about when planning a lesson is “how can I make this the most accessible for everyone” and most of the time technology is excluded from this talk. Kaori and Neesha helped me see that it is a way for students to connect better, and for students with certain disadvantages it can be crucial.
Below I want to share a medically reviewed article for children with cerebral palsy and tips for inclusive classrooms.
intersectional identities
https://www.cerebralpalsyguidance.com/cerebral-palsy/living/teacher-tips-inclusive-classrooms/
This will be my log for my fabric canvas and why garbage art is important to me
Multimedia has a special place in my heart because of how human it is. I say that because when I picture the most human art I picture scraping whatever is there to make beauty, and often I find myself using many different things around me to create and shape my art. My focus for this canvas is primarily to fill out the thinner areas with different medias. I have acrylic and oil paint, in many different forms here.
I love the way some different kinds of spray overlap on each other. I have these oil sprays and these acrylic sprays I have been putting over each other to see the effects and so far I’ve liked it. I want to explore this media more and you will probably see another log showcasing a canvas with it as its focus.
This canvas is not done. I will finish it up and post it to my blog here. Next post will include a canvas that is also not finished that I will figure out.
I had a stag beetle come up to me the other day and ask me for a ladder.
I Have These Crazy Dreams Where Everything Becomes So OverWhelMing. It starts off with just a simple room im in…. (picture a piece of graphing paper but a big large room.) then suddenly behind me a HUGE structure, usually a tower or a single-coloured block appears behind me. Then my brain adjusts to the scale of how massive it is in front of me alone and I start to
panic panic panic
THEN as if everything with the first shape wasnt enough a much larger shape or structure is found behind me again, this time making the first original structure somewhat obsolete to my horror. this cycle continues until i am just a speck and the shapes are the sizes of suns. sometimes everything explodes. sometimes i get crushed by a tower. most of the time i just wake up sweating.
The other day a stage beetle came up to me and said “do you have a ladder”
I want to own those blocks and towers and keep them in my mind because they remind me that i am not allowed to escape.
When i am awake there is little need for shapes, much is overwhelming.
Work and school are hard yes but they arent sufferable the way most of my whelming stuff goes. These are tasks if anything. and they are of the same line that a math problem is. “essay due” “do essay” “essay done!” wow. what could be overwhelming about that? I want to worry about stuff that I deeply care about. My life my love my people my colour. I am so overwhelmed when I am not there. i am so overwhelmed when I walk everywhere and there is no colour to be found. I want to be calm and notice everything. I want to be everywhere extinguishing fires and i want to close the sky so the earth can warm my folk. and in the best most honest way, I want to suffer and i want to suffer and i want to suffer. Because if I suffer then I can keep going. so when i wake up i will happily suffer and when i go to sleep i will happily suffer as well. I yearn for the day i can be everywhere for everything but taht is always impossible. I cant skip the hard parts but i can ignore the good ones. I wont quit my day job.
and i said “they dont make ladders for beetles…”
Tuesday, February 11th 2025
During this class we had Rich McCue come to speak to us, and he shared with us some of his tools for video editing.
What I enjoyed about this session was how we took a deep dive into video editing software like IMovie and editied clips of our own.
Below I have attached my clip, and although it may seem chaotic, this clip allowed me to mess around on IMovie and learn the ideas and tools that Rich shared with us. This clip shows the capability that is in my hands to create meaningful edits within clips, The application of this ability extends beyond my professional career and into my everyday toolset. Within this age of screen it is always welcome to have another tool to deal with it.
When looking back on this class I remember how stoked I was to work with this software. I had messed around before in the past when me and my friends would make movies for school projects so I felt I had a knack for this sorta stuff. I remember laughing with my classmates as we explored the clips we had edited.
I really wanted to share mine in the hopes that it would make my classmates smile, and after uploading it to the cloud file we were able to get it up and running. Although in hindsight I feel a tad embarrassed by the actual result I am glad I shared. I would rather embarrass myself a bit than sit with something I’d wanna share. Going forward I have the ability to not embarrass myself by making something with the same amount of editing skill just maybe not as silly. Perhaps on this website!!!
I wanna extend a Thank You! out to Rich and his passionate talk 🙂 he was a very good speaker and it was very engaging to have him in.
After this class I walked home and enjoyed my Tuesday by tidying up and watching ozarks with my partner. I was listening to “Bad Scene, Aaron’s Fault” from the O Pioneers and Bomb the Music Industry split EP. Thank you to my guitarist and singer Ben Mason for showing me that song I listen to it often
This semester I am tasked with creating a personal learning plan and documenting my process on this website.
Through the use of free inquiry learning I will take a deeper look into painting, specifically putting art onto a canvas. This is important to me because painting is time I can set aside for just myself to reflect and relax. It is also important to who I am because I have gotten in trouble in the past for not keeping it on the canvas, so incorporating it into my life in a more consistent way would allow me to tap into that craving I had in the first place.
So for my Free Inquiry I will be painting canvases inspired by things that I come across or artists I am inspired by.
Come back to see what canvases I have to share!
Yesterday my friend Ben and I worked in the back of a kitchen. We were understaffed and it was very hard. By the end of it my lips were chapped and my fingers were all wrinkly from water and oil and chicken.
I still had to study for my midterm in 8 hours.
I went home so fast and showered so fast and then studied on my bed.
I don’t feel I have time to cherish the people in my life properly. I am so busy all of the time and I cannot deviate.