"Fritzfield!" is a new series created in-house at our school district to get kids in grades K-2 excited about reading. It features our head librarian, Pat Naismith, and a hilarious puppet named Fritz (voiced by Jim Henson Company puppeteer Christopher Scheer!). They tell stories and read children's books, and the show also features interviews with famous children's book authors and illustrators, tips and techniques to help young readers learn how to read, reading comp questions, and songs about reading written and performed by students from the high school.

This unit is designed as a rigorous and relevant project for high school students in my Creative Imaging class. Many of the assignments we do revolve around technical skills in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. While I feel that these skills are very important, they are not relevant unless they can be incorporated seamlessly and effortlessly into other classes and/or content areas. This unit encompasses much more than those skills as the students research the Outsider artist, Martin Ramirez, collaborate with museum personnel on the processes of curating and critiquing, and finally create an exhibit with clean, well-designed and informational handouts/brochures and a video reflection on their choices. The PDF for download consists of 4 sections with objectives and procedure, plus 3 worksheets and templates in Illustrator and InDesign. I have not included the technical steps for making the brochure/program in Illustrator/InDesign or the video in Premiere as the assumption is that students will have the background and skills necessary to produce these products.

Group project. In small groups we take segments of the day and identify how we all as a community are part of a natural system and show how everything was here provided for us before the use of industry or technology. We begin our lives dependent on nature. We rely on air to breathe which comes from the trees. We take shelter in homes made from wood and brick, cement, sand, created from nature. We have breakfast from cereal, bread (grains from the earth) jams (come from all berries and fruit trees) butter, cream, milk, yoghurt, cheese (nature designed the cows to manifest these products) sugar (sugarcane) tea and coffee (coffee bean and tea leaves. All of these are produced in a design we cannot actually alter in reality! We can add and influence taste but we cannot stop this natural process or natural design, only slow it down by damaging it, and the young children of today need to understand that there is a pure and beautiful arrangement always ongoing in nature. We put on our clothes made from wool and cotton (from natures plan of sheep and cotton trees, and or silk from silkworms) We get in our cars which are created from metal, steel, glass etc from earths core and run on oil and petrol again from earths core We get to school and use paper from the wood of trees. Our colors are from plant resins (although we also need to add in the synthetic developed colors and explain the differences, what each type looks like on cottons and papers) Our classrooms and work buildings are made from brick, concrete, wood (identify synthetic eg plastics as altered.) Our day is worked around the clock, sunlight and moonlight. Our fruit vegetables and all natural foods are full of vitamins and minerals that coordinate with the needs of different parts of our bodily functions We rely on water from rain otherwise we don't survive. So each small group in the class has to work on one of these areas to develop in photography, film, and color design a presentation of the fact. The small group projects will be put together with writing in the form of a documentary, a publication and perhaps a PDF portfolio with film footage as the final products to be shared with the community.

The newly designed HBLL Tour is integrated into Brigham Young University’s First Year Writing program. Four library research sessions are team taught by university writing and library instructors. The tour is taken after the second research class as homework. Students check out iPods from the library and are given a Library QR Code Tour map. Students locate and scan the QR code/s on each level of the library. The appropriate video plays on the iPod (or device of their choice) about library services available in that area. Students take the quiz on the back of the map. After students have scanned all QR codes and watched the videos, they turn in the iPods and quiz. A self-guided tour of the Harold B. Lee Library has been taken!