Renne Emiko Brock / Zinnia Zauber presented this at the 14th Annual Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference March 20, 2021.
Don’t Panic! “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams is a launch manual preparing multimedia students to approach, brainstorm, and problem solve from various points of view and audience perspectives. Parallax learning encourages a strategic empathic approach and formulated, growth mindset. Aiming for an apparent position or solution, students use multi-dimensional virtual scenarios to devise creative contingency plans appearing to be precognition. Do you know where your towel is?
Boldly Go - Celebrate Success and Cataclysm Stories by Renne Emiko BrockRenne Emiko Brock
Confidence comes from educational attempts that fail with room to reflect and regroup to triumph. The constellations don’t move us. The stories behind the stars do. Teach the mythology and methodology of heroes and creatures to embrace worthy motives and mistakes. Assemble learning systems that build worlds and character, foster spheres of influence, and rejoice in honest reflective writing. Celebrate individual’s stories that highlight self-actualization results for all to become shining stars.
Feather in Your Cap - Achievement and Recognition by Renne Emiko BrockRenne Emiko Brock
Imparting knowledge and acknowledgment is vital for encouraging curiosity and confidence in students. To hit the target, one must aim higher to reach their mark and earn a symbol of achievement. Increase challenges and customize learning outcomes with personalized projects that enhance motivation and demonstrate skill proficiency, ownership, and valued contribution. Capability is the cap and the earned feathers are their virtual creative problem solving and multimedia communication successes.
Presented on April 4, 2019 at the 12th Annual Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference.
It includes Renne's digital storytelling coursework at Peninsula College.
Patterns, Pixels, and Superpowers – Designing an Art Practice by Renne Emiko ...Renne Emiko Brock
Explore the colorful interweaving of art, identity, education, digital storytelling, and community building with Peninsula College faculty Renne Emiko Brock as she shares her art practice woven with fiber and multimedia art, color research, engaging virtual environments, and inclusive collaborations.
Renne is an artist, instructor, superhero, and advocate of awesomeness empowering people to be their best virtual and tangible self by advancing excellence, exceptional pursuits, and individualism through creative expression and encouraging instruction with inspired results.
Since 1993, she has taught fine art, fiber arts, digital arts, virtual world use, social media, multimedia web, video, personal and professional branding, marketing, collaborative community building, and art enterprise with Peninsula College, University of Washington, Monterey Peninsula College, at conferences, and independently. She produces creative events like the First Friday Art Walk Sequim, North Olympic Fiber Arts Festival, and several more while also serving on nonprofit organization boards to foster innovation and inclusion.
Superheroes' Transformative Digital Storytelling by Renne Emiko BrockRenne Emiko Brock
Empower agency and reveal superhero skills with immersive lessons that activate educational transformations using storytelling techniques including reflective origins, challenging problems, and creative solutions to evolve students into exceptional mentors utilizing technology, art, and imagination.
Develop artful solutions using storytelling technology to inspire and overcome challenges by telling unique accounts as an active learning modality.
Students are superheroes and education is an equity mutation. Virtual environments unlock their potential because anything is possible. We recognize the catalyst and hero’s journey that makes each student unique through positive persistence to persevere achievements beyond the classroom.
Covering the fundamentals of branding, marketing, creating an active online presence, business licensing and insurance, photographing art, digital storytelling, and selling. As the director of several creative arts events and Peninsula College faculty, she will also encourage opportunities to participation in community arts events like the First Friday Art Walk Sequim, North Olympic Fiber Arts Festival, and Innovative Arts and Crafts Fair, as well as, Multimedia Communication courses to expand creative business skills and networking.
Let go of control. Instructors empower students through agency with active learning ownership, not with ultimate authority. Build validating lessons prior to entering virtual situations with surprising personal investigation, mood board creation, and character sketches. Develop education buy-in through accelerated and immediate avatar customization to reveal individuality and unlimited potential. Use reflection exercises to reveal how this experience exposed their real investment in themselves.
Unlock your potential using 24 Keys to Success and achieve transformation within the 12 Steps of The Hero’s Journey Project. From hero to superhero mentor, students build this ongoing virtual experience to inform and inspire new heroes to attend college through an inclusive, encouraging adventure. Forge your own keys to open new opportunities and unique narratives in your classroom and community by harnessing treasured storytelling systems and empowered agency. Build interactive lessons that guide one’s innovative, educational evolution using storytelling techniques including reflective introductions, challenging problems, and creative solutions.
Boldly Go - Celebrate Success and Cataclysm Stories by Renne Emiko BrockRenne Emiko Brock
Confidence comes from educational attempts that fail with room to reflect and regroup to triumph. The constellations don’t move us. The stories behind the stars do. Teach the mythology and methodology of heroes and creatures to embrace worthy motives and mistakes. Assemble learning systems that build worlds and character, foster spheres of influence, and rejoice in honest reflective writing. Celebrate individual’s stories that highlight self-actualization results for all to become shining stars.
Feather in Your Cap - Achievement and Recognition by Renne Emiko BrockRenne Emiko Brock
Imparting knowledge and acknowledgment is vital for encouraging curiosity and confidence in students. To hit the target, one must aim higher to reach their mark and earn a symbol of achievement. Increase challenges and customize learning outcomes with personalized projects that enhance motivation and demonstrate skill proficiency, ownership, and valued contribution. Capability is the cap and the earned feathers are their virtual creative problem solving and multimedia communication successes.
Presented on April 4, 2019 at the 12th Annual Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference.
It includes Renne's digital storytelling coursework at Peninsula College.
Patterns, Pixels, and Superpowers – Designing an Art Practice by Renne Emiko ...Renne Emiko Brock
Explore the colorful interweaving of art, identity, education, digital storytelling, and community building with Peninsula College faculty Renne Emiko Brock as she shares her art practice woven with fiber and multimedia art, color research, engaging virtual environments, and inclusive collaborations.
Renne is an artist, instructor, superhero, and advocate of awesomeness empowering people to be their best virtual and tangible self by advancing excellence, exceptional pursuits, and individualism through creative expression and encouraging instruction with inspired results.
Since 1993, she has taught fine art, fiber arts, digital arts, virtual world use, social media, multimedia web, video, personal and professional branding, marketing, collaborative community building, and art enterprise with Peninsula College, University of Washington, Monterey Peninsula College, at conferences, and independently. She produces creative events like the First Friday Art Walk Sequim, North Olympic Fiber Arts Festival, and several more while also serving on nonprofit organization boards to foster innovation and inclusion.
Superheroes' Transformative Digital Storytelling by Renne Emiko BrockRenne Emiko Brock
Empower agency and reveal superhero skills with immersive lessons that activate educational transformations using storytelling techniques including reflective origins, challenging problems, and creative solutions to evolve students into exceptional mentors utilizing technology, art, and imagination.
Develop artful solutions using storytelling technology to inspire and overcome challenges by telling unique accounts as an active learning modality.
Students are superheroes and education is an equity mutation. Virtual environments unlock their potential because anything is possible. We recognize the catalyst and hero’s journey that makes each student unique through positive persistence to persevere achievements beyond the classroom.
Covering the fundamentals of branding, marketing, creating an active online presence, business licensing and insurance, photographing art, digital storytelling, and selling. As the director of several creative arts events and Peninsula College faculty, she will also encourage opportunities to participation in community arts events like the First Friday Art Walk Sequim, North Olympic Fiber Arts Festival, and Innovative Arts and Crafts Fair, as well as, Multimedia Communication courses to expand creative business skills and networking.
Let go of control. Instructors empower students through agency with active learning ownership, not with ultimate authority. Build validating lessons prior to entering virtual situations with surprising personal investigation, mood board creation, and character sketches. Develop education buy-in through accelerated and immediate avatar customization to reveal individuality and unlimited potential. Use reflection exercises to reveal how this experience exposed their real investment in themselves.
Unlock your potential using 24 Keys to Success and achieve transformation within the 12 Steps of The Hero’s Journey Project. From hero to superhero mentor, students build this ongoing virtual experience to inform and inspire new heroes to attend college through an inclusive, encouraging adventure. Forge your own keys to open new opportunities and unique narratives in your classroom and community by harnessing treasured storytelling systems and empowered agency. Build interactive lessons that guide one’s innovative, educational evolution using storytelling techniques including reflective introductions, challenging problems, and creative solutions.
Every decision and action we make produces a purposeful pathway defining who we are and our contribution to the world. Immersive environments not only give students paths to follow, but trails to blaze. Design a classroom gallery and exercises that cultivates innovation, opportunity, and creative expression by recognizing what makes each student a unique catalyst. By creating a call to action, they display a relentless passion and pursuit of knowledge while mentoring classmates. After identifying their path, demonstrate and exhibit in the virtual world to encourage constructive critiques and complements. With that success, now do it in the actual world.
Every student superhero has a catalyst that changes their lives and is the incentive to improve themselves and the world around them. Discover students' origin stories and principal motivation to turn passion into positive projects and promote partnerships. Virtual worlds foster flexible, imaginative play to reveal and utilize students' individual stories. Create a safe learning environment where this vulnerable intersection transforms into a lesson of confidence, compassion, and connections with other superheroes. After exploring the events and elements of their influential story, implement transmedia storytelling through multimedia, blogs, social networks, and virtual world engagement to support student centered success and unique learning styles while inspiring universal listening, inquiry, and teambuilding.
Copyright 2014 by Renne Emiko Brock-Richmond including "action-packed superheroes" book content and college coursework. All rights reserved.
Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education 2014 Lecture on April 11, 2014
Share the Black Crayon - Collaborative Superhero TeamsRenne Emiko Brock
Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education 2013 Lecture
Lead by example. Share the spotlight instead of fighting over control or the black crayon, so that people reveal and utilize their superpowers. Immersive environments, like Second Life, open opportunities for educators to expand beyond the classroom by including worldwide professional guests, virtual and physical field trips, and community building inquiry and impact on screen and off. Learn to establish educational experiences that build teams and encourage students to discover their superpowers through developing authentic avatars, fostering clear, confident communication, assigning responsibility, and cultivating respect.
Virtual Worlds Avatar - Zinnia Zauber
Transcript at http://www.uniqueasyou.com/courses_presentations.htm
Won People's Choice 3rd Place in Presentations at Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education 2013
Slideshow from my "Peak Pinterest In Your Business" lecture at the 2012 Olympic Peninsula Tourism Summit to devise an active and engaging Pinterest marketing strategy. It is a great intro and starting point. I hope to see some positive results from it!
Authentic Avatar – inspiring trust with your virtual identity Renne Emiko Brock
Your avatar is a visual representation of you and your professional reputation. Your avatar must communicate your enthusiasm, openness, and mission to tap those productive, emotional interactions and encourage participation that online communities utilize as a form of personal branding and real influential guidance. Efficiently build credibility by embodying your best self though your Authentic Avatar. Discover how to create an expressive, consistent, and unique appearance and animations that articulates your genuine motivation, fosters confidence, and to differentiate you, your cause, and your business from other avatars.
From a series of educational lectures about how you can use social media for marketing by connecting more with your community and supporting others who will in turn support you.
This is an introduction to get started in Second Life. From signing up to learning skills to getting ready to launch into the amazing world out there. Part 1 of 2.
This is an introduction to get started in Second Life. From signing up to learning skills to getting ready to launch into the amazing world out there. Part 2 of 2.
Intellectual Property Respect - A Virtual Artist’s PerspectiveRenne Emiko Brock
Encouraging the Dos and the Don'ts Intellectual Property rights and permissions through responsible and respective behavior. Lead by example. Claiming ignorance is unacceptable.
Authentic Avatar Brand: Build Trust Through Your Virtual Presence Renne Emiko Brock
Authentic Avatar Brand: Build Trust Through Your Virtual Presence
Renne Emiko Brock-Richmond (SL: Zinnia Zauber)
Second Life Community Convention 2011
Your avatar is a visual representation of you. As a form of personal branding, your avatar must communicate your enthusiasm, openness, and mission to tap those productive, emotional interactions and encourage participation that online communities utilize. Discover how to create an expressive, consistent, and genuine appearance and animations that articulates your authentic motivation and to differentiate you, your cause, and your business from other avatars.
Second Life Community Convention 2011
Renne Brock-Richmond (SL: Zinnia Zauber) D. Cooper Patterson (SL: Cooper Macbeth) Valerie Hill (SL: Valibrarian Gregg) Anna Gadler Pratt (SL: Sicily Zapatero) Kathryn Green (SL:JILIAN Magic) Stylianos Mystakidis (SL: Stylianos Ling) Beverly Gay McCarter (SL: Bev Landar) Cyber Simsider
Graduates from the University of Washington Certificate in Virtual Worlds Classes of 2009, 2010, and 2011 work together to enhance diverse professions and collaborate through shared synchronous projects in a scholarly community. While fostering effective and cooperative projects, the UW VW graduates are also working on virtual world projects in a variety of disciplines: library and information science, cognitive engineering, museums, education, government, military, career counseling, healthcare, nonprofits, project management, computer programming, and the Arts.
Event Planning and Promotion at the Nonprofit CommonsRenne Emiko Brock
This is a Nonprofit Commons in Second Life Mentor's educational chat I did on June 24, 2011 to encourage people to create engaging events and how to promote them.
My slide show for my lecture at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center on April 15, 2011. To encourage artists to enter Second Life to express themselves.
copyright 2011 by Renne Emiko Brock-Richmond
This slideshow compares different virtual worlds and Second Life continues to be better than these VW. For a UW course.
copyright 2008 by Renne Emiko Brock-Richmond
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
Every decision and action we make produces a purposeful pathway defining who we are and our contribution to the world. Immersive environments not only give students paths to follow, but trails to blaze. Design a classroom gallery and exercises that cultivates innovation, opportunity, and creative expression by recognizing what makes each student a unique catalyst. By creating a call to action, they display a relentless passion and pursuit of knowledge while mentoring classmates. After identifying their path, demonstrate and exhibit in the virtual world to encourage constructive critiques and complements. With that success, now do it in the actual world.
Every student superhero has a catalyst that changes their lives and is the incentive to improve themselves and the world around them. Discover students' origin stories and principal motivation to turn passion into positive projects and promote partnerships. Virtual worlds foster flexible, imaginative play to reveal and utilize students' individual stories. Create a safe learning environment where this vulnerable intersection transforms into a lesson of confidence, compassion, and connections with other superheroes. After exploring the events and elements of their influential story, implement transmedia storytelling through multimedia, blogs, social networks, and virtual world engagement to support student centered success and unique learning styles while inspiring universal listening, inquiry, and teambuilding.
Copyright 2014 by Renne Emiko Brock-Richmond including "action-packed superheroes" book content and college coursework. All rights reserved.
Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education 2014 Lecture on April 11, 2014
Share the Black Crayon - Collaborative Superhero TeamsRenne Emiko Brock
Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education 2013 Lecture
Lead by example. Share the spotlight instead of fighting over control or the black crayon, so that people reveal and utilize their superpowers. Immersive environments, like Second Life, open opportunities for educators to expand beyond the classroom by including worldwide professional guests, virtual and physical field trips, and community building inquiry and impact on screen and off. Learn to establish educational experiences that build teams and encourage students to discover their superpowers through developing authentic avatars, fostering clear, confident communication, assigning responsibility, and cultivating respect.
Virtual Worlds Avatar - Zinnia Zauber
Transcript at http://www.uniqueasyou.com/courses_presentations.htm
Won People's Choice 3rd Place in Presentations at Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education 2013
Slideshow from my "Peak Pinterest In Your Business" lecture at the 2012 Olympic Peninsula Tourism Summit to devise an active and engaging Pinterest marketing strategy. It is a great intro and starting point. I hope to see some positive results from it!
Authentic Avatar – inspiring trust with your virtual identity Renne Emiko Brock
Your avatar is a visual representation of you and your professional reputation. Your avatar must communicate your enthusiasm, openness, and mission to tap those productive, emotional interactions and encourage participation that online communities utilize as a form of personal branding and real influential guidance. Efficiently build credibility by embodying your best self though your Authentic Avatar. Discover how to create an expressive, consistent, and unique appearance and animations that articulates your genuine motivation, fosters confidence, and to differentiate you, your cause, and your business from other avatars.
From a series of educational lectures about how you can use social media for marketing by connecting more with your community and supporting others who will in turn support you.
This is an introduction to get started in Second Life. From signing up to learning skills to getting ready to launch into the amazing world out there. Part 1 of 2.
This is an introduction to get started in Second Life. From signing up to learning skills to getting ready to launch into the amazing world out there. Part 2 of 2.
Intellectual Property Respect - A Virtual Artist’s PerspectiveRenne Emiko Brock
Encouraging the Dos and the Don'ts Intellectual Property rights and permissions through responsible and respective behavior. Lead by example. Claiming ignorance is unacceptable.
Authentic Avatar Brand: Build Trust Through Your Virtual Presence Renne Emiko Brock
Authentic Avatar Brand: Build Trust Through Your Virtual Presence
Renne Emiko Brock-Richmond (SL: Zinnia Zauber)
Second Life Community Convention 2011
Your avatar is a visual representation of you. As a form of personal branding, your avatar must communicate your enthusiasm, openness, and mission to tap those productive, emotional interactions and encourage participation that online communities utilize. Discover how to create an expressive, consistent, and genuine appearance and animations that articulates your authentic motivation and to differentiate you, your cause, and your business from other avatars.
Second Life Community Convention 2011
Renne Brock-Richmond (SL: Zinnia Zauber) D. Cooper Patterson (SL: Cooper Macbeth) Valerie Hill (SL: Valibrarian Gregg) Anna Gadler Pratt (SL: Sicily Zapatero) Kathryn Green (SL:JILIAN Magic) Stylianos Mystakidis (SL: Stylianos Ling) Beverly Gay McCarter (SL: Bev Landar) Cyber Simsider
Graduates from the University of Washington Certificate in Virtual Worlds Classes of 2009, 2010, and 2011 work together to enhance diverse professions and collaborate through shared synchronous projects in a scholarly community. While fostering effective and cooperative projects, the UW VW graduates are also working on virtual world projects in a variety of disciplines: library and information science, cognitive engineering, museums, education, government, military, career counseling, healthcare, nonprofits, project management, computer programming, and the Arts.
Event Planning and Promotion at the Nonprofit CommonsRenne Emiko Brock
This is a Nonprofit Commons in Second Life Mentor's educational chat I did on June 24, 2011 to encourage people to create engaging events and how to promote them.
My slide show for my lecture at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center on April 15, 2011. To encourage artists to enter Second Life to express themselves.
copyright 2011 by Renne Emiko Brock-Richmond
This slideshow compares different virtual worlds and Second Life continues to be better than these VW. For a UW course.
copyright 2008 by Renne Emiko Brock-Richmond
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
Acetabularia Information For Class 9 .docxvaibhavrinwa19
Acetabularia acetabulum is a single-celled green alga that in its vegetative state is morphologically differentiated into a basal rhizoid and an axially elongated stalk, which bears whorls of branching hairs. The single diploid nucleus resides in the rhizoid.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
Overview on Edible Vaccine: Pros & Cons with Mechanism
Editor's Notes
Welcome to Parallax Learning and Creative Contingency Plans! Thank you for joining us today!
I am Renne Emiko Brock and you might know me as Zinnia Zauber as well. I am an artist, instructor, and superhero.
I am a professor of Multimedia Communications at Peninsula College in Port Angeles, Washington, USA. Here’s a link to my department
http://pencol.edu/proftech/multimedia-communications
You can find me and my work at a couple different places:
http://uniqueasyou.com/ facebook.com/RenneEmiko @renneemiko facebook.com/ZinniaZauber
Presentation will be at https://www.slideshare.net/renneemiko
Please visit my sim to learn more about my work at “hue are you?” slurl.com/secondlife/Brauni/180/0/22/
Or, get my book… Here is the direct link: https://amzn.to/2ZQqsno
Don’t Panic!
“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams is a launch manual preparing multimedia students to approach, brainstorm, and problem solve from various points of view and audience perspectives.
Parallax learning encourages a strategic empathic approach and formulated, growth mindset.
Yep, that is me in GREEN with Douglas Adams!
I still have my game! I have my students play this interactive fiction. Very few get out of the bedroom.
Aiming for an apparent position or solution, students use multi-dimensional virtual scenarios to devise creative contingency plans appearing to be precognition.
Do you know where your towel is?
With Covid-19 and stay safe orders, we have been totally online since April 13, 2020.
The whole college works together to send encouragement to our amazing students.
We shifted to Zoom sessions instead of meeting on campus.
All students got to experience Second Life through shared screens.
Sharing screens and personal stories became supportive learning opportunities. My students made this time of tragedy into a time to help others.
As my textbook, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, teaches students to thrive in awesome, chaotic experiences and learn new things while they persevere and question the meaning of life.
It predicts technology way ahead of its time and validates the responsibility creators must consider when they unleash such power and ingenious transmedia influence.
What is Parallax Learning?
The technique called parallax in astronomy is a way to measure distance of stars through motion or location of observer’s different viewpoints.
Consider a parallax learning approach as changing perspective or viewpoint to a problem to gain ideal outcome.
I am a multimedia sculptor, so I have to view my pieces of art from many angles. I get on the floor to be sure everything looks right from all angles.
Here’s a Parallax Demo
You can experience this parallax measurement and perspective by extending your arm to hold out your hand with a finger or thumb.
Arrange yourself to cover an object in the background.
Then switch between your left and right eye being open and shut.
You will see you your finger or thumb are appearing to shift slightly on the background.
If you know the distance between your eyes, you can calculate the distance to your finger.
Don’t worry there is not a geometry quiz at the end of this presentation.
Creative Contingency Plans are future circumstances that are possible and not totally predictable.
My parents were scientists and my dad especially was a logistics engineer and system science professor.
I explain to my students that I couldn’t borrow the car unless I could explain three possible routes home to my parents.
This is the contingency plan from Vancouver Mall, WA to my home along Whipple Creek.
I give students creative route challenges to solve before they can start some assignments.
Knowing where your towel is.
The H2G2 says, “A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.”
Devise practical and fantastical towel lessons for absorbing imagination that are inclusive and empathic.
They are not easy and require some deep thought and personal expression.
Transformational success and gaining a growth mindset happens when all six of these supportive and explorative elements are found in your educational adventure.
With these, students can take flight.
Without agency, resistance takes a stand.
Without vision, you experience confusion.
Without incentives, you gain resentment.
Without skills, anxiety forms and grows.
Without resources, frustration fills the void.
Without a strategy, debilitation halts all action.
Let’s start with agency
Advocate Accommodations.
While teaching and working in virtual worlds is not always accessible to all students due to lack of access to robust internet access and higher performing computers, it does provide accommodation equity to those who can participate inworld.
I have been teaching online and inworld for over 13 years. Peninsula College has provided degrees in Multimedia Communications online even longer and is available to a global audience.
We have diverse students from age 15 to 92 in our courses.
While achieving full accessibility isn’t easy, we do our best to accommodate learning environments to be inclusive and respectful.
Many of my students require accommodations due injuries, disabilities, and other impediments like veterans with PTSD, being a caregiver for an elder family member,
being a parent of young children, and attending class in public places because that is their only access to internet due to homelessness.
Removing barriers for education, interaction, and expression is not limited to physical obstacles.
Offering assistive technology, devising adaptations and modifications to course delivery systems, and creating student centered intentional planning is vital for accessibility and achievement.
Embrace Flow!
Our brains improve through pleasure.
Flow is the state of complete absorption while in a challenging task.
When you are immersed in creativity in action, you get into creative flow.
Flow is when time stops. Flow happens when your expertise shines.
Flow merges imagination and authenticity.
Flow requires personal control or agency over the task.
Flow is when you are in a state of oneness or wholeness.
Here is a "Flow Chart" to show how the Challenge and Skill levels create areas of experience.
Apathy happens when a task requires low challenge and low skill levels.
Flow happens when the task is challenging and your best skills are activated.
Please embrace these concepts of Flow:
Focus
Do that one thing.
Devote complete concentration on the task at hand.
Watch your time, your motivation might get lost in flow.
Freedom
Feel free and safe to express yourself. No self judgement. Trust yourself.
Feedback
We require engagement and clarity of goals.
Assessment and evaluation guides improvement and that is a reward.
Participation is enjoyable.
Feeling
Do something that is intrinsically rewarding.
Enjoy when awareness and actions are united.
Challenge yourself.
Now on to vision!
Give them a map!
Try to provide different forms of direction to plan ahead and understand required outcomes.
I don’t spell out everything for my students, I am not that great of as speller.
So, I use logic charts and maps.
Communicate directly.
Don’t get lost in translation. It is kinder and more efficient to speak the truth.
Students use Five Word Feedback for classmates’ weekly essays. Both English professors and students hate it.
Provide them an idea of their place in the plan.
Demonstrate where they belong and will be contributing.
Have Second Breakfast! Be welcoming and embrace Hobbit hospitality!
Use parallax perspective and empathy to foster dreams.
Create opportunities to build personal connections and teams to support each other.
Dreams are goals then plans to be realized.
Zack helped build his classmates virtual gallery.
He was an IT student, not a multimedia student, and wanted this class be an opportunity to show off his creative side.
All IT students have to take this class with me. They all say they hated it and that it changed their lives.
Next we have incentives!
Require Ownership.
Everything a student creates should be theirs and that ownership establishes respect.
Class Side Quests become business plans that go from virtual to actual.
Provide Coupon Codes.
I don't do extra credit, I do coupons codes that are much harder.
Things are not always as they seem.
“May I ask why you felt little Tiffany deserved to die?” – Zed, Men in Black
Little Tiffany and the simple test from “Men in Black” was added to our Psychology Area of Study Scene to go along with Penguin’s other H.R. Giger / “Aliens” inspired artwork and the Psy professor’s favorite movie franchise.
“Little Tiffany” became code for several classes meaning “You need to look deeper.”
Let students learn from their own lessons.
Provide room for students to teach themselves and make something just for their own elation and expertise.
Have them teach their classmates what they learned.
This snapshot is a student showing how they built their nebulas for their new shop.
Let’s check out skills!
Embrace adventure over anxiety.
My Interaction of Color in Design students struggled with using their cameras and engaging during class.
Each week, we picked a theme color and they had to dress, show art, or surround themselves in that color.
The results were epic and quite wiggy!
Improve communication and rally with problem solving.
I teach my students to ask a lot of questions while creating a safe and inspiring space for collaboration.
This requires active listening, sincere curiosity, gift giving, and perseverance.
My students produce media projects, which include videos, graphic design, websites, and marketing campaigns, for local businesses, military and government agencies, educational and nonprofit organizations.
Even when something is difficult, we embrace the positives of an opportunity.
Confusion and disappointment can generate an unexpected reward:
Hours of profound discussions about professionalism and persistence during my class that built a stronger trust among the classmates and with me.
Use imagination.
“…the secret is to bang those rocks together guys…”
Any chance to create, take it!
My students participate in different exhibitions across the grid.
Here we are at resources!
Use humor and laugh at yourself.
Using a “KHAAAAAAAAAAN!” yell is good for you too.
When people were not following the mask mandates, I would ask ¿Quién es Más Macho? Ricardo Montalban, Khan, of course!
Share Small Joys and Make Tiny Allies!
The Elves!
You know this soundtrack became your jam.
Pick a theme song for yourself and sing it!
Mine is the muzak version of “The Girl from Ipanema”. What’s yours?
Crisis Circumstances require awareness, care, understanding, and offering of a hot beverage.
My students focused on connecting students with our C.A.R.E. Team to help support students in crisis even when they were as well.
Frank Herbert, author of Dune, is from Washington, so we like to quote him, “Fear is the mind-killer.”
And, finally we are at strategy!
In my courses, we use Creative Production Systems to explore and foster inquiry before developing solutions and creating content.
Purpose / Discover to define what the reasoning of the project, the end goal, and call to action.
Knowledge / Document to ask questions, do research, and curate gathered content.
Skills / Design to create and explore to express action and communicate goals.
Tasks / Develop to make the work and devise different versions.
Criteria for Success / Deploy to execute the requirements in action and design. Look twice before you leap.
Feedback / Update to gain positive and productive feedback. Give yourself time for reflection and refine the work.
Include in this process to build Creative Contingency Plans to be adaptive and appear to omni-dimensional.
I like to front load information to students that can be somewhat overwhelming.
This preparing for all contingencies and may appear to be precognition to others.
At the same time, I trust my students and encourage agency in their learning and producing.
I remind them that I am a Gen Xer, I will not handhold or micromanage.
Gamer Growth Mindset
It could be the roll of the dice or the Heart of Gold Infinite Improbability Drive that generates that idea of accepting uncertainty.
Yet, accepting the impossible is possible to make the ordinary extraordinary makes the creative mind the Dungeon Master of any game.
There is freedom in a growth mindset and there is infinite opportunity and inclusion when it becomes a gamer mindset.
Celebrate Transformation Student Lifecycle Success!
“We will be restoring normality just as soon we are sure what normal is anyway.” – Trillian, H2G2
Okay!
Superhero Capes or Super Towels?
How could you create towel lessons to inspire your students to embrace parallax learning?
Towel Lesson: Make a towel, superhero cape, or another object customized just for them.
This requires personal reflection and research skills. Maybe some poetry writing.
Towel Lesson: Provide a safe place for them to call home that they help design or decorate.
The bypass destruction and feeling lost in the universe provides new, inventive insight.
Towel Lesson: Provide challenges that they can solve for others and work together.
Learning to build a team you trust means you can go to the end of the universe and back.
If you please visit my “Don’t Panic!” VWBPE exhibition, you will discover over 150 one of a kind towels I made for my students.
Okay, here is the lighting round of H2G2 learning ideas!
Agency
Advocate Accommodations.
Embrace Flow.
vision
Give them a map and communicate directly!
Provide them an idea of their place in the plan.
Use parallax perspective and empathy to foster dreams.
Incentives
Require Ownership.
Provide Coupon Codes.
Let students learn from their own lessons.
skills
Embrace adventure over anxiety.
Improve communication and rally with problem solving.
Use Imagination.
resources
Use humor and laugh at yourself.
Share Small Joys and Make Tiny Allies!
Crisis Circumstances require awareness, care, understanding, and offering of a hot beverage.
strategy
Use Systems and Creative Contingency Plans to be productive and adaptive.
Gamer Growth Mindset.
Celebrate Transformation Student Lifecycle Success!
Please consider using Parallax Learning, Creative Contingency Plans, and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy to discover, measure, and brighten those luminous scholar stars!
This last slide is to honor my Peninsula College student Rachel who returned after 8 years to take my three Digital Storytelling courses.
This is her towel! She is awesome and I am very proud of her!
Thank you very much! #besuper #PenColMedia #42
I am Zinnia Zauber / Renne Emiko Brock and this has been a pleasure to share with you my work and successes of my students!
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Presentation will be at https://www.slideshare.net/renneemiko
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