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Changing Presentation and Oral Exam Date?

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Hi everyone I  sent an email to Bill because I’ve been feeling a little overwhelmed and time-crunched as our presentation and oral exam is coming up so quickly. So we had a conversation and are figuring out the logistics but he asked me to see if everyone would also be on board with this idea.
to meet this coming Friday (as planned)…but then not meet this Saturday, but the next one. So that would mean Saturday (June 2) is when our oral exam and presentation would be due. What do you think?
Hope this finds everyone well
Christin Newell

May 9 Assignment Christin Newell

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Something I am really excited about in this course is definitely the group project. We are finding some connections to the key components of community development and this is really helpful for me. I am a visual learner so seeing how the components fits into our project is helping me see the material. especially some of the articles like the placemaking, really hit home with our project and then after we made those connections I was able to make sense of the material. I am starting to understand that community development includes more than just the local community in a city, but also the community that is developed by the creation of a space or place.

The only thing I am having difficulty with right now is just understanding all the material, because majority of our learning is auditory or reading, I need visual examples like videos for my brain to make connections, sometimes the case studies help when they are simple,but sometimes I have difficulty associating with them which makes my understanding of the principles confusing. If you have any advice it would be much appreciated.

Class Connections

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After reading the community builders handbook I thought it was interesting how it also connects with my fundraising class especially in chapter 9. But also I feel like everything keeps cross connecting between class which is cool because it address the same subject, but in a new perspective and sometimes more in depth, which I like. Although I will say I found the rules for radicals hard to read at times only because it was using so many philosophical references and it kept loosing me so I hope I can get a better understanding of the book when we talk on Friday and Saturday .

Christin Newell

Weekend 1

My understanding of community cultural development is about the relationship to culture and the improvement of the human condition. In addition the focus on the development of cultures through public awareness and social conditions. This is important in my current and future work as a curator. These skills of becoming an active participant  in cultural life  and building awareness open doors to engaging the community. To learn and understand the importance of community cultural development will help me represent works of art in a cultural context. This will  allow me to provide the community a deeper engagment with the art. This will also bring to life the history of the culture being represented. One question I have in the sense of Stories being shared. How do you know when it is acceptable to share a story in the terms of say a journal or a letter for example, from like the 1600s? Let’s say this letter came from and Indian tribe, would it be correct to contact that tribe to see if they want the story shared or because the letters old, would it not matter to the tribal culture?