Monday, November 23, 2009

Please Help Support the Exchange!

With your help the Learning to See Cultural Exchange Project will continue between Mayto, Mexico and New Hampshire.

The 2010 project will focus on the teenage girls in the area, having them visually tell a story about their lives and practice their English. New Hampshire teens in advanced Spanish courses will do the same and further exchange will take place via the web.




Thursday, July 16, 2009

Photo Summer Session #1


Zander, Ian, Liam, Caitlin, Emily out shooting during Photo Summer Session #1 in July. Session #2 starting in August, e-mail for info:

ngh@hortonphoto.com

Check out Facebook Learning to See to view all their great photos!

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Art All State Worcester 2009


I had the pleasure of being an artist mentor at Art Allstate at the Worcester Art Museum this spring. Check out the great progression of creativity, with limited resources and time. The students were great and hard working and I enjoyed every minute.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Cultural Connection


Language Exchange - anyone want to translate to English?
Portsmouth, NH USA high school students comment on photographs made by Mexican student photographers. Using their Spanish writing skills, students look forward to hearing back, in English or Spanish from Mayto, Mexico.

Images can also be seen on Facebook.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hortonphotolearningtosee/


Thursday, May 28, 2009

PHOTOGRAMS
















Thanks to the Sunprints, UC Berkeley, Learning to See in Mexico had the opportunity to expirement with basic photography without having a darkroom, we used the sun as our source of light with special blue paper.
(February 2009 photo)

During the past two weeks I have been teaching 5th grade students from Kennebunk and Kennebunkport, Maine at The Heartwood College of Art Artwood Bound Program. We are learning the basics of B&W photography, doing photograms in the darkroom, I also call them silhouette prints. They caught on quick, not only to the technique but they were very creative in their compositions and use of materials.















Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Thank you to sponsors!

Learning to See projects bring students and community member together to photograph and learn more about their surroundings. For the Mayto, Mexico 2009 Learning to See Projects a big THANK YOU goes out to:

New Hampshire Cultural Commission
University of California, Berkeley

Holly Hunter
Dan Gair
Zoe Paarlberg
Bill Paarlberg
The Whole Entire Herrara Family
The village of Mayto
El Rinconcito
Hotel Mayto






Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Español V

THE STUDENTS OF PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE, USA IN SPANISH V WILL FURTHER PARTICIPATE IN AN ON-LINE EXCHANGE- THEY LOOK FORWARD TO COMMUNICATING WITH LOCALS AND VISITORS OF MAYTO, MEXICO TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS AREA OF THE WORLD AND TO PARACTICE ESPANOL.

photo by: Miguel Angel Romero, Mayto cabo corrientes, Mexico
Fotografia que muestra uno de los atractivos turisticos. Son cravios que se han coleccionado de vacas que han muerto.

Una asignatura de escritura-

Escoge TRES fotos de la colección.
Escribe de DOS, describe, oralmente UNA.

Maneras posibles de escritura –
una conversación de 20 lineas
un cuento inventado, un cuento de ficción – una página
una descripción, incluyendo información que encontraste en el internet u otro lugar, citando exactamente donde.

Una contribución al blog, a la persona que sacó la foto. Incluye tu escritura e información personal [cuántos años tienes, cómo es vivir aquí, etc.]

¡A compartir! Vamos a compartir lo que escribimos con otros estudiantes. Después de leer lo que han escrito otros, vamos a analizarlo y evaluarlo para una nota en el rubric dado.

Fechas límites- 3 fotos con las escrituras – el miércoles, 22 para compartir en clase. Escrita a computadora, doble-espacio.
Después de las vacaciones – el martes, 5 de mayo – Entrégueme a mí todo.
El viernes, 8 de mayo – contribución al blog en el laboratorio de computadoras.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hortonphotolearningtosee/

AND ALSO VIEW ON FACEBOOK