I've been asked to speak at a conference on Thursday. The topic is "The Art of Transparency." Ninth graders in an honors biology class:
What shall I say about being transparent? Every school and college in the world identifies "honesty" as a core value. I've been asked to speak because Proctor's communications are considered to provide relative transparency. (You are seeing the school in its reality.) We are about to dissect chicken legs:
It's all about time, really. If a communications medium (such as a magazine, newsletter or traditional website) has a shelf life of weeks or months, the message strays from reality. Editorial committees demand that we stay "on message," communicating that we're just about perfect.
A dynamic, self-managed website, however, exists in the present; here today, archived tomorrow!
Usually, we choose quality over quantity, but there's a benefit to quantity in photo-blogging. Post twenty-something images every few days, and you'll get over imperfections. Something very funny just happened in this calculus class:
Twitter is a social medium that answers the question "What are you doing?" This photo-blog is a social medium that answers, "What is happening now?" Assembly just let out.
Then, we all piled into the community center for apples and pretzels.
We had about fifteen minutes after assembly before the next block began.
What are these girls watching?
Five more minutes of free time in the Wise Center:
Oh-oh.... It's time for class.
Back to chemistry, and a little work at the whiteboard.
In studio art, we're drawing a still life of bright, colored blocks.
That's pretty transparent!
