Smith Karen Mac Wk 1 Comment 1 The Art of Possibility (P Yawn)

I have never thought that my work was good enough to publish.  I have always been somewhat in awe of people that published or presented at a conference.  Kind of a I’m on one side of the fence and they are on the other side.  

I have presented once at a middle school conference.  It was to show other art teachers about the clay I was using.  I brought the local person with me to talk with them.  I felt comfortable because I was talking about something I was comfortable with.

I’d better give myself an A and get it going.  I think I would like to get published by Edutopia.  That is a magazine that is both published and online.  A lot of educators read it and go online.  I wonder if I could include a short video.  Then it could be published online.  I’m going to investigate and find out.

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 2010

week one-blog 4  publishing? (P Yawn)

KAREN's COMMENTI 

     I know that some of us tend to think the worst of ourselves and our work.  I think that is human nature.  If we thought we would wait until our work was good enough to publish, until we had something so wonderful to present, or the best leader of the group, none of us would ever do those things.  The first time I ever presented at a state workshop was when I was on the state board for elementary music educators as a district chairman, when someone said that the teachers wanted to learn sign language and music.  Did anyone know a person who did that.  I whispered that I was an interpreter of the deaf and use ASL in my music classes.  I don't think anyone even heard me, but someone saw my lips move and ) asked what I said.  I repeated it and they said, "You can sign something right now?", so I started interpreting what they were saying.  Then, when they all quit talking, I said that some songs are easy, like this, and I signed a song.  That was all it took.  They said, "Would you do a session twice (repeating it).  I have done several state and local (in various cities in AL, GA and FL and a few national and regional conferences.  

    It turns out there are many teachers who want to know this.  In fact, in Haiti this week, I worked with some teachers at a couple of schools on using asl  in some easy English songs and one of the school said they had a surprise for me Thursday morning, at 7:15 am.  The entire school (600 children) sang and signed the song the teacher taught them the past 2 days.  It is nice to see the fruits of our labors, as educators of other educators, come to fruition.  

     So, whether you feel you are ready, just do it!  It sounds like you have thought through completely, including which publication you want to publish in.  That sounds really good.  Good luck with it.