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In Residence Programs a la Bernajean
Bernajean – author and enthusiastic promoter of ANYTHING that increases joyful learning is now offering the art of digital storytelling as a one of a kind, **Artist-in-Residence Learning Adventure.**

Residencies bring unique and powerful opportunities for your students and staff while learning-in-motion together with a working professional artist. This onsite learning experience launches new communication literacies that are less about mastering technical skills than about being able to design and communicate information that artfully uses sound, images, transitions and special effects in ways that dance ideas together into illuminated understandings. Each participant is immersed in learning all storytelling, writing and technical skills needed through crafting their own 2-4 minute video.

Expect a flexible, interactive, hands-on style tailored to the meeting learners, curriculum and school staff at their readiness and learning levels. Bernajean purposefully works in cooperation with the grade-or content area teachers to develop projects with outcomes that challenge and motivate the students while demonstrating practical classroom strategies as real-time staff development with visible success for students. Topics and length of time onsite are negotiated for desired deliverables.

Every residency culminates with a “show time” of their productions in a finale "concert setting." Bernajean’s learning environments are designed and paced to enable participants to master skills, processes and the craftsmanship now needed in creating ALL kinds of exemplar multi-media products beyond storytelling.