We had been getting all geeked up about a possible early summer Maine thing with Jody and Laurie and Jim and Matava and Skip, but lots of them all have school well into June, when the window closes for a lot of us. Venue issues as well. So we are just going to try to do that next, not this, summer. Our plan is a conference of pure hands-on PQA two or three day training, with no costs. Can you imagine working with Laurie Clarcq and Jody Noble and Anne Matava in a relaxed ‘I suck and I’m proud” setting? So sorry for the false alarm but we weren’t ever sure, we were just doing some Maine dreaming. It looks like Skip is setting up a repeat of the annual Maine October workshop though and we can look forward to seeing each other again in the fall for the above kind of training, since we could call the two days last October the training portion and then this will be the application portion. So that is not set in stone yet but Skip will be on the Maine TPRS site about that as we go along – http://classjump.com/mainetprs.
On another note we are talking about a native language workshop with Josh Hinson/Chokma in Oklahoma that same summer after this one. Josh is confident that he could host at a tribal facility there in central Oklahoma and so we are just putting this out there right now.
Speaking of native languages, I am doing a thing with the Lakota teacher at East High, where I work, looking at the role of French trappers in their area of the current U.S. and doing some non-fiction backward design as per Bernie on that. I can’t wait. And it will culminate in a Pow-Wow downtown.
Paul Kirshling was telling me today that culture and TPRS should fuse up more and I agree. Roller coasters of new information seem to be happening right now, especially with the awesome stuff on expanding/embedding stories from Michele today and the backwards design stuff I’ll try to have a report on my L’Amoureuse project at some point. I’d give it a B, but the song was too long to get done in only one week, and, wonder of wonders, I spoke too fast. Gotta run.