Try to follow the breadcrumbs. It may be confusing!

1)https://www.google.com/search?q=ufology+in+philadelphia&oq=ufology+in+philadelphia&aqs=chrome..69i57.4948j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=ufology+philadelphia

2)https://www.facebook.com/PhiladelphiaUfoMeetupGroup/info

3)http://www.meetup.com/ufos-61/messages/boards/thread/10980161

4)http://www.history.com/shows/ufo-hunters/videos/the-philadelphia-experiment

5)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Experiment

6)http://www.navyyard.org/history

7)http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2011/02/22/top-historic-ships-near-philadelphia/

8)http://www.phillyseaport.org/visitor-information

9)http://www.ushistory.org/tour/

10)https://www.google.com/search?q=Edgar+Allan+Poe+National+Historic+Site+Philadelphia%2C+PA&oq=edgar+allan+p&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j0j69i57j5.3676j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

If the government is still shutdown by this weekend, I won't be able to go. Still, I'm crossing my fingers!

Our study suggested that blended learning was successful in part because faculty used the online materials to provide students with more opportunities for formative assessment. In the best cases, these included exercises designed to help students develop metacognitive skills, or the skills needed to judge their own learning and the effectiveness of their learning strategies, and identify things they can do to improve. In a recent edition of the faculty development mailing list Tomorrow's Professor, Rick Reis introduces us to Marsha Lovett's concept of "exam wrappers," or short metacognitive exercises for students to complete shortly before and after an exam to get them thinking critically and integratively about their preparation, their performance, and the instructor's feedback. In the article, these are described primarily as in-class and/or on-paper exercises, but they could just as easily be adapted as online exercises for a blended course.

Andre Cadere was a Polish-born artist that made his mark on the French art world in the mid-70s.  He was famous for creating and carrying around long striped rods.  Rather than putting his works in shows, he bore them around and became part of the work himself.  Walking around, thouseands of people probably saw his artwork, far more than the work of other artists stuck within the normal means of presentation.  He stirred up some trouble when he took his rod into the shows of other artists, but he retained his positive fame for his interactive, performance-like art pieces.

Placement -- updates, what is your plan for this week in your placement?  

To Discuss in your placement group:  WHAT WILL YOUR FIRST WEEK LOOK LIKE?

What technologies can you explore to add value to your placement and help build relationships.

Can you try something you haven’t tried before?

What are your expectations for self, group members, placement partners?  How will you communicate these?

How will you know at the end that your week working in your placement has been successful?

Put this on your googdoc and share with us.  Bring back to big group: one intention you have.

What do you expect of your group members?

What ideas/questions are you investigating with your placement experience?

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/03/casting-the-hunger-games-in-praise-of-katniss-everdeen/72164/

Automatism is a type of art that comes from completely random thoughts.  It can be written, drawn or painted and just means that the art was done in a sort of "spur-of-the-moment" type of way.  Some artists believe that just letting themselves create without any plan they can reach a new level of creativity.  The name "automatism" was appropriated by surrealists from physiology and refers to actions and processes that are involuntary and not under concious control.  "Action painting" is a type of automatism art that Jackson Pollock regularly used.

For more information go to: http://www.moma.org/collection/theme.php?theme_id=10947

Automatic Drawing by Jean (Hans) Arp

Nam June Paik used technology as an art form, and has often been called the godfather/grandfather/George Washington of video art.

One of his exhibits was made of 52 TVs that were each covered by an aquarium filled with water and fish that swam around in front of what was appearing on the TVs. Another piece he did was "TV Buddha," in which a sculpture of a seated Bhudda who watched humself on a closed circuit television.

For more infomation, go to: http://articles.latimes.com/2006/jan/31/local/me-paik31

Andy Warhol is known for taking play to the next level. He loved being bold and distinct and making his thoughts visual. His art represented his playfulness with the media and his choice of colors. Some of his art became contradicting, but to him it just meant being free and letting his take be known and that people were paying attention to his art and acknowledging it. 

The Innovating Pedagogy report is an annual overview of edutech from the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University. The 2013 report, the second in the series, selects 10 emerging innovations from the long list of existing technologies which the institute believes have the potential to make a significant impact on education. These are not technologies which are in development or even new, but rather technologies and ideas which are already being effected but have room to expand. The report ranks each innovation in terms of potential impact and timescale for implementation, describes its current application, and then explains the pedagogy behind the innovation and how it could be re-envisioned for maximum impact. The next innovation the report describes is learning from gaming.

Potential impact: high
Timescale: medium