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[|**“Beach campfire”**] was digitally finger painted by Dejoras and made available for sharing in Flickr under a [|**Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic**] license. = = = =  Welcome to the "In Appreciation for All You Do" Project! Transdisciplinary Project for the Northwest Territories of Canada 2013-2014

Welcome
Last year 14 schools participated in the [|“MyNorth” transdisciplinary project]. Two books of student published work were sent to each school in June. Our second transdisciplinary project calls for students and teachers to digitally paint/draw and write about their community leaders. It is called “In Appreciation for All that You Do”. This year even more ECE coordinators are supporting this initiative:
 * English Language and Literacy Coordinator,
 * Arts Education, CTS & Trades Coordinator
 * Northern and Social Studies Coordinator
 * Literacy with ICT and Distance Education Coordinator

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Final Product Expected
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 * digital painting, or drawing, or digitally enhanced photograph of a community leader
 * poetry or prose about the leader in //no more// than 27 lines and 225 words (to accommodate the final book size)

Curricular Connections
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 * __Northern Studies __ (Residential Schools Module and Module 3: Activities 4, 6)
 * __Social Studies __ (Gr. 1- LE 1.3.3, 1.3.4, Gr. 2- LE 2.1.7, Gr. 3- 3.1.4, Gr. 4- Theme 4, Gr. 11-Nationalism, Gr, 12-Ideologies)
 * __ELA __ (GO#3: “plan and focus and inquiry” and GO#4: “prepare and create texts”)
 * __CTS __: From the Communication Technology Occupational group:
 * COM1005 Visual Composition
 * COM1205 Photography – Introduction
 * COM1215 Photography - Exposure
 * COM1275 Photography – Digital Processing 1
 * COM2205 Photography - Composition
 * COM3235 Photography – B/W Digital techniques
 * COM3275 Photography - Digital Processing 2
 * __Fine Arts __ (Grades 1 to 9 - “Creative/Productive”: “Visual Arts”; Grades 10 to 12 – Art 10, 20, and 30 “Drawings and Compositions”)

Nature of the Work
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 * //During the course of your school's prose or poetry work this year //, select two pieces of student writing that describes two community leaders: names, roles, public influences, name of the community, and personal significances to the writer
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">During the course of your students' creative artistic work this year //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">, assist a student by making available a digital painting or drawing or photo editing application for a computer or portable device that lets the students paint, draw, or make enhancements to an existing photo of the community leader that was written about in their poetry or prose.
 * <span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">Take or use with permission a digital photo of the leader that can be referred to during the digital painting/drawing process
 * <span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">Teachers who conduct this artistic and written work along with students may also submit their best pieces

Suggested Pedagogies
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 * <span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">An interdisciplinary, longer term inquiry/project
 * <span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">Showing learning that was achieved through conducting interviews around a theme
 * <span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">Collaborative work where roles of researcher, interviewer, writer, painter/drawer, etc. develop a final piece together

Suggested Criteria for Leaders
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 * <span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">Positively impacts community members
 * <span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">Acts like a leader either "behind the scenes" or "in public"
 * <span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">Cares deeply about the future with strong interest in children and young people, the land, well-being of elders, etc.
 * <span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">Cares deeply about the present with strong interest in community services
 * <span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">Cares deeply about the past with strong interest in heritage, culture, and arts

Publishing

 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">These paintings, drawings, photo enhancements, and written work will be displayed to a worldwide audience in the following protected wiki: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">northernleaders.wikispaces.com
 * <span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">Also, a 17cm x 17cm “self-published” book will contain each piece of art and written work of up to //two community leaders per school//. The art about the leaders will occupy the left hand pages and the written work the facing right hand pages. Two copies of this book will be sent to each school by June of 2014. Example of the [|MyNorth] book from last year:



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Requirements
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 * <span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">Each school needs to provide a painting, drawing, or photo editing application for a mobile device or computer for //at least one// of your best art students
 * <span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">Word Processor
 * <span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">Each piece of art and written work needs to be released by the creator to the government with rights to publish using the attached, "Consent Form"

Suggested Criteria for Selection

 * <span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">Heartfelt, personally-owned connection to the leader
 * <span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">Artistic elements of visual text (mood, audience engagement, color, balance, contrast, rule of thirds)
 * <span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">Written qualities that are coherent, creative, and informative

<span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">NOTE: These criteria are not meant to privilege older students top

Painting App Suggestions
<span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">Here are a few Web sites that might help your selection of technology (search terms were “digital painting apps”, “digital drawing apps”, “photo editing apps”): top
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Finger Painted Art Examples
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Submissions and File Formats
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 * <span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">your (2) best pieces of student digital art about your community leaders in //JPEG// format
 * <span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">your (2) best pieces of student written poetry or prose about your community leaders that are depicted in the art work in //Microsoft Word// format (.doc or .docx)
 * <span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">teacher-made digital art and written work about the same theme (of local leaders) is invited as well and will be included in the wiki and in the final book publication when space permits (consent forms are required)
 * <span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">(4) consent forms (scanned pdfs)
 * <span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">if available, a bibliography of Web sites, publications, newspaper articles, books, including potential unpublished interviews, etc. for additional or potential reading and learning about the community leader (//Microsoft Word//)

Methods and Due Dates
<span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">Digitally to ECE through a GNWT dropbox using this link: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">[]

<span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">You will see “Blake Wile Dropbox”. You will be prompted to place your email address at “From”, type a typical “Subject” line, attach your files (use the Dropbox more than once if your files are larger than 200MB), leave a “Message” about the submissions, and then “Send”.

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 * <span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">Deadline: April 30, 2014 **

Example: Leader Portrait
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Example: Painting in Action!
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Example: Edit Photo with MS Office
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