CCTNetwork16Apr08

"Artful Thinking: Using the Power of Art to Teach Thinking Across Curriculum," featuring CCT alum & Project Zero principal researcher, Shari Tishman (organized by Greenwald & Martin) April, Weds 16th

Evaluation from CCT faculty meeting, 30 May

Nina Greenwald
Was good to meet in a different venue (the campus center) and get CCT's name out there via publicity for the event.

Students from Gifted & Talented class loved it and are following up with Shari.

With respect to recruiting: introduction should have included more more about the CCT experience.

Peter Taylor
Attendance consisted of students from Gifted & Talented class, other CCT students and some CCT faculty, a few others, and (later) Rebecca Saunders' theater class.

Publicity packets were taken. Follow up to see if they are being used is needed.

As a high profile (and major budget item) event: recruitment aspect -- minimal; institutional impact aspect -- department faculty, GCE Dean, and other UMB decisionmakers did not attend.

Technical issues and poor acoustics of the room were a distraction. (Audiotaping didn't work, but it would have been hard to make sense of the audio alone without the visuals.)

Significant (with respect to goals of CCT Network) that it was a CCT alum speaking (altho' no alums attended -- perhaps because of early hour?)

Suggestion for the future: use funds to bring alums as guest speakers in courses and make those class sessions open to the wider CCT and UMB community. (Easier to tape the presentation and audience input.)