This workshop at the 49th annual festival is open to teachers, librarians, or park and recreation managers interested in Florida folklife. Georgia July 11-26, South Georgia Writing Project Invitational Summer Institute , Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA, directed by Laurie Sommers and Diane Howard. Teachers will pilot the unit to serve as a model for a multi-genre folklife writing curriculum for rural Georgia educators that links schools with community folklife and a sense of place. A Model for Integrating Folklife in the Classroom , Albertson College, Caldwell, ID, directed by Maria Carmen Gambliel, sponsored by the Idaho Humanities Council, Idaho State Historical Museum, and Idaho Commission on the Arts. Using the Latino population as a model, teachers learn how traditions of different cultures can be integrated and celebrated in the classroom using resources in their own communities.
Faculty includes local, regional, and national folklorists, historians, and anthropologists.
What Stories Tell Us , Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, IL, directed by Cindy Kerchmar. This course introduces teachers and school librarians to folklife concepts, genres, and practices of Illinois residents plus storytelling techniques to enhance writing in language arts and social studies. Teachers produce a set of materials for classroom use. Materials gathered will be used to launch a Web-based Museum of the Person to present life stories of people whose voices often are submerged in official history and community planning. Iowa June 14-16, Iowa Folklife Prairie Voices Institute , Waterloo, directed by Riki Saltzman, Lynda Wessel, Karen Heege, the Grout Museum District, and the Waterloo Center for the Arts.