{"id":12920,"date":"2018-05-21T17:33:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T00:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/?p=12920"},"modified":"2018-05-30T14:57:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T21:57:49","slug":"write-out-with-us-this-summer-place-based-making-with-writing-projects-and-national-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/write-out-with-us-this-summer-place-based-making-with-writing-projects-and-national-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"Write Out with Us this Summer: Place-Based Making with NWP\/NPS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Writers reside inside internal landscapes. They traverse the contours of stories and poems, learning and understanding. They turn pen on paper and characters on screens into art. They write for themselves as much as for the world.<\/p>\n

This summer, we hope to encourage you to take your writing and teaching self outside, into the natural wonders of open landscapes and historical spaces, and explore through the eyes of connected teachers, connected learners, and connected park rangers.<\/p>\n

Welcome to Write Out: Place-Based Making with Writing Projects and National Parks<\/em>, a summer open online adventure being sponsored by the National Writing Project and the National Park Service. Write Out will run from July 15 through 29, 2018<\/b> and through it we hope to provide a range of new and interesting ways to explore the natural and historical resources around you, using as our lens the principles of Connected Learning<\/a>. We will reflect together on how we might bring a sense of adventure and exploration to our own learning spaces through engaging in our own place-based writing and making activities together as educators.<\/p>\n

This open and online collaborative project\u2014a riff off what is known as a connectivist MOOC, or \u00a0Massive Open Online Collaboration\u2014will be designed with multiple entryways for you to engage with historical and natural spaces. As with any open project, where your interest takes you is where you should go. Think of our suggestions as Cairns<\/a>, virtual markers for a possible pathway but not the only path. We hope that educators in National Writing Project sites will find National Park sites, and vice versa. And if connections already exist, we hope you will strengthen them.<\/p>\n

In other words, it\u2019s OK to head into the wild.<\/p>\n