PART A
Choose five text excerpts from the course readings that have been particularly significant to you. These can be text excerpts you have previously used in your DWLs, or those you select from other Encounter or Exploration experiences. For each text excerpt, write a short commentary ( a paragraph or so) about why you have chosen it, and how it relates to your learning in the course.
Choose three excerpts from your own writing in the course. These may be drawn from your DWLs, from your Interact posts, or any other writing you may have done about your experiences in the course. Again, for each excerpt, write a short commentary in which you say why you chose that excerpt, and what it reflects about your learning in the course.
PART B
Make an image that comments on the personal meaning(s) of your experiences in the course. After you have completed your first version of the image, make two more versions of the same image, each time experimenting with some aspect of it. Include all three versions of the image in your project.
Write a short Artist's Statement describing your work what you'd hoped to create, and what you learned through each of your three experiments. Comment on the connections you make between your experiences with this exercise and the themes of the course about art and learning. (about a single spaced page, or 250 words)
If the course has been a flop for you… that’s ok, make an image that expresses that! We hope, of course, that will not be the outcome. The point is that you don’t have to be happy with the course to do well with this assignment. The image must be original… it must be your expression. Avoid using "canned" images from the Internet unless you are making them into an original artwork. the point here is that the image needs to be your creation.
The image may be created in any aesthetic medium—that is, it can be literary, visual, or even musical… take some risks, play! Above all, make an image that is meaningful for you, and makes a personal statement about your learning.
If your image is visual, be sure to include a VERBAL DESCRIPTION of your image (i.e. a descriptive statement that helps people with visual impairments to visualize what the art looks like.
PART C
Write a summary reflective commentary (approximately 300-500 words) that considers the following questions:
What has changed or stayed the same in your understanding, awareness, and personal experience with (dis)ability over this quarter?
What have you learned this quarter about your own experiences and relationship with the arts and education?
How do you imagine your experiences in the course might impact you in the future? (You might consider this question in terms of your career aspirations, your ideas about yourself as a learner, or perhaps as a parent.)