Jo_Murphy: Passionate About Intercultural Understanding

I have been an Art Teacher for over 20 years.  I work a great deal with cartooning and I like to animate as a hobby.  I am now a freelancer almost full-time, just occasionally I will teach in a university or at a college - but - writing about Art and doing my own Art has become my passion. 

One of the things I have been doing lately is FRASBing.  I enjoy social media. Writing online keeps me connected while living all alone working. 

I have set out FRASB images below.  Soon I will upload a movie to show how the concept works.

I have written my first Creative Arts Text Book. It is a fun book all about the 60s.  I explore improvisation and conceptual art among other creative 'ways of working'.  This gave me scope to look at the work of Yoko Ono. Having had fun with that I then talked of John Lennon and giving Peace a Chance!

It will be followed with various books of lesson plans.

My passion is the development of Communities of eLearning Inquiry and Practice. In the context of eCLISPs, I am working towards teaching online full time as an independent contractor.

From the beginning of my artistic career I was inspired by the work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. SJ:  Explorations of Positive Intelligence and Collective Intelligence and the concept of Noosphere.  Needless to say that when Transmedia came along I was hooked. 

Somehow along the line I became distracted and wrote a book somewhat off topic!

It is called Virtual and Traditional Jigsaws in the Classroom a workbook designed to show how to develop co-operative learning strategies by working with students as learning partners through the medium of jigsaw.  It is through this text that I develop my ideas about creating communities of learning in the classroom via Blogging.   To do this I have used lessons about creating Virtual Jigsaws.