26 April 2011
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Contents: Student matters, CCT community, CCT events, alums, other events, opportunities, resources, food for thought, humor
Student Matters
Registration continues for CCT Summer courses and April 4th for CCT Fall courses.
CRCRTH 655 "Metacognition," M-Th 1:00pm-4:00pm, June 27-July 14, Class #1853
CRCRTH 601 "Critical Thinking," M-Th 5:00pm-8:00pm, June 27-July 14, Class #1607
CRCRTH 618 "Creative Thinking, Collaboration and Organizational Change," Fr, Sa July 8-23, 9:00am-4:15pm, Class #1048
CRCRTH 688 "Reflective Practice" Fr, Sa, July 15-16, 9:00am-4:15pm (students can be brought in from a distance)
Online:
CRCRTH 612 ONLINE "Seminar in Creative Thinking", theme: "creative realization of ideas: exploring elemental awareness and customized constructs," May 31-July 13, Class #1296
CRCRTH 619 ONLINE "Biomedical Ethics," online, July 18-Aug 25, Class #1575
CCT Community
Todd Erickson’s bio presentation on Jim Henson via Tremik who is the uncreative cousin of Kermit the frog was a creative blockbuster! The video here is part II of the outrageously funny puppet show he created that captivated all of us, including the the reviewers. Todd’s a rising star and should be in the CCT program.CCT Events
CCT Community Open House: Spring 2011 Synthesis Presentations by Graduating StudentsMonday, May 2; 4:00pm - 9:00pm. Room: Healey Library, eleventh floor, multi-purpose room, section A (0011A)
Tuesday, May 3rd, starting at 4:15pm. W-2-157.
Email cct@umb.edu to RSVP and for additional details. Refreshments will be served.
Alum and CCT associates Notes
Ben Schwendener (CCT612 instructor summer 2011) performing in:
Night Song :Ambient thematic improvisations on piano(and other small keyboards). 12th century Plainsong Gregorian chants in the dark with lots of incense.Often accompanied by Neil Leonard, Jorrit Dijkstra, and/or Dan Shaud (Ff.h).
7pm, Sundays, Thru May 2011
St. John's Episcopal ChurchJamaica Plain, MA
and
Taylor House Music & Art Series Boston A lovely B&B featuring jazz performances, art & more...
A New Trio: Ben performs new music with protégés Elliot Berman (bass) and Tim Merle (drums)
Friday, May 13, 2011, 7:30 pm Suggested donation $10 50 Burroughs Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
This Summer...Apply Today! Caux Artists Program
Join us this summer in Switzerland! July 18 - August 7, 2011
An interdisciplinary summer course in music, music theatre, dance and the humanities. Ben Schwendener participates as Music Coordinator and Ensemble Instructor. Esteemed Guest Faculty include: Donny McCaslin ♦ Julian Lage ♦ Rachel Price. Master Classes by:John Medeski ♦ Danilo Perez. Application Deadline extended to April 15. More details About Caux Artists Program on Facebook
Events
Boston Writing Project is hosting the National Writing Project's Urban Sites Network conference at the Colonnade Hotel : "Nurturing Student Writing: Navigating Urban Literacies". April 29-30Galton’s Children: the Rise and Fall of the Eugenics Movement exhibit at Harvard
On display on the first floor exhibit area of the Library from April 2011 through December 2011 at the Countway Library, Harvard Medical School, 10 Shattuck Street, in Boston.
Southern New England Girls Collaborative Project Conference: "Collaborate to Innovate: Changing the Landscape for Girls in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Wednesday, May 18, 2011 from 3:30pm. to 6:00pm. at the New England Institute of Technology in Warwick, RI. Cost: $10
Let's Talk About Food Programming at The Museum of Science with an outdoor festival along the Charles on Saturday, June 25 (rain date - Sunday, June 26th)
Beyond Green: Alternatives Assessment Sustainability Action Summer Institute June 27 to 29, 2011 at the University of Massachusetts Lowell
EIGHTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LEARNING University of Mauritius, Mauritius 5-8 July 2011
...for anyone with an interest in, and concern for, education at any of its levels and in any of its forms, from early childhood, to schools, to higher education and lifelong learning - and in any of its sites, from home to school to university to workplace. http://www.LearningConference.com
Opportunities
The Institute for 21st Century Agoras and the Future Worlds Center, announce the 3rd International training school on the Structured Dialogic Design process.Petition for improved rights for workers building the Guggenheim site in Abu Dhabi.
Several major institutions are building new sites in Abu Dhabi including NYU, The Louvre, and the Guggenheim. Please consider signing the petition at http://gulflabor.wordpress.com/ More than 130 international artists, curators, writers, and academics have signed the petition.
National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance is looking for Student Ambassadors:
"NCIIA's Student Ambassadors Program is a network of students that develop and deliver local events for university entrepreneurs, encouraging them to become involved in NCIIA programs and activities, and supporting them to create inventions and innovations that have a social benefit."
For more information and to apply, visit http://nciia.org/studentambassadorsFAQ
Resources
Food for Thought
'The Harrowing' Parker PalmerThe plow has savaged this sweet field
Misshapen clods of earth kicked up
Rocks and twisted roots exposed to view
Last year's growth demolished by the blade.
I have plowed my life this way
Turned over a whole history
Looking for the roots of what went wrong
Until my face is ravaged, furrowed, scarred.
Enough. The job is done.
Whatever's been uprooted, let it be
Seedbed for the growing that's to come.
I plowed to unearth last year's reasons -
The farmer plows to plant a greening season.
On Kobe Bryant's outburst
Past medical testing on humans revealed
By MIKE STOBBE, The Associated Press, Sunday, February 27, 2011
ATLANTA -- Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates.(Full article)
Amid the terror of imminent possible nuclear disaster and the human death toll of the Japanese earthquake a loyal dog refuses to leave its best friend. Read more
Humor
Quiz:1) How long did the Hundred Years' War last?
2) Which country makes Panama hats?
3) From which animal do we get cat gut?
4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution?
5) What is a camel's hair brush made of?
6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal?
7) What was King George VI's first name?
8) What color is a purple finch?
9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from?
10) What is the color of the black box in a commercial airplane?
(answers)