Dear Rich:
There is an article about Bernie is this months (March-April) VIA the mon=
thly magazine of California Automobile Association."Stop, Look Listen" by B=
ill Donohue. The contents are about where to listen to natural sounds, and=
be able to hear them. I'll see about reprints or a website with this artic=
le.
Tell me more about frog week, and what your museum is doing with it. I d =
like to tell you more about my project which is to get kids to listen for b=
irdsounds as they go looking for birds. I attache a little description of a=
public performance coming up, and a research paper that tells others why w=
e combined storytelling and scientific observation.
Robin Aurelius
Rich Peet <> wrote:
For those that know what this means.
It's Wood Frog week in the northern Midwest.
Rich
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Storytelling as Informance (The Marriage of Fact and Fancy), with Support f=
rom Technology
Mary Lynne McGrath, Sacramento City College
Robin Aurelius, Sacramento City College, Retired
Presented at
The Imaginative Education Research Group
4th International Conference on Imagination and Education
Vancouver, 12-14 July 2006
Introduction
I have used storytelling for many years as a teacher, librarian, and festiv=
al performer and proposed using it as part of my final project in a college=
geography class. Most of the students were studying biology, botany, and o=
ther natural and life sciences. I began thinking of ways a storyteller mig=
ht use the story as a vehicle to organize and express scientific observatio=
n, and use technology to enhance it. This conjecture prompted the followin=
g questions:
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