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Re: "Free" vs "Paid" at NAEA?

From: PGStephens
Date: Wed Mar 22 2000 - 07:10:06 PST

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    In a message dated 3/22/00 2:51:08 AM Central Standard Time,
    mscurfield writes:

    > In almost every case I've found that I get more than my money's worth from
    > the $20 Hands-On Workshops. But on the other hand, they're quite limited
    in
    > numbers of people who can get in.

    From the presenter's standpoint, the "for pay" workshops can be a life saver
    because accurate planning for numbers of hand outs and resources can be
    done. After a horrible experience at the Chicago conference where Nancy and
    I had planned for perhaps 20 or 25 people to show up for a Friday evening
    games workshop, I have always worried about having enough materials. At that
    free workshop we had two rooms completely filled ... people sitting on the
    floor and standing up at the back of the rooms. We had brought our meager
    number of handouts and only postcards for playing the games! How could we
    have predicted that many people or a room that large for a Friday night
    presentation? We were fortunate that we were able to send handouts to
    everyone who did not receive them at the conference, but that was a real
    chore.

    But, I absolutely agree about the worthiness of the free workshops. There is
    a bounty of knowledge to be had there.

    > After last year's tesselation workshop with Pam, Nancy and Jim O'Neill I
    was
    > so impressed that I was able to convince our Art Ed. Dept. at Wichita State
    > University to purchase the entire set of Take 5 prints from Crystal. (I
    won
    > a single poster in a drawing for door prizes.) What a fabulous resource
    that
    > is! Then I took the Art+ Math, Art+ Language Arts, Art+ Social Studies and
    > Art+ Science Take 5 sets to a workshop sponsored by Arts Partners for the
    > Wichita Public School classroom teachers. Now Arts Partners wants a set!

    Thank you for the kind words abot the Crystal Interdisciplinary study prints
    for which Nancy and I have written the text. The Art/Music set recently won
    a national award of excellence. At present we are working on two new sets:
    self portraits and murals.

    See you all in LA.

    Pam
    http://www.ARTeaches.com 

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