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Examples of Karen Jo's Writing and Editing12/20/2007 Karen Jo is part of a team that co-wrote and co-edited the first draft of an unpublished curriculum: Montgomery County Public Schools Information and Communication Technology for grade 6, June through August, 2007. "To be effective, powerful communicators, innovators, analysts, or programmers in an ever changing, updating world, students will relish persistent, life-long technological skill acquisition..." More>>View an instructional presentation More>>View an instructional worksheet |
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| Karen Jo's feature article, "Cultivating Architects," about teaching CAD in an MCPS Enriched and Innovative Instruction summer program for 4th through 8th graders, Discoveries, appeared in the February issue of School Arts, 1998. "If you're searching for a simple, Windows computer application to enhance the art curriculum, consider a computer assisted design program such as 3D Home Architect..." More>> Read the article, "Cultivating Architects," School Arts, February, 1998, p.39. Karen Jo's feature article, "Digital Scenery," about teaching digital landscape painting in an 8th grade, Digital Art class, appeared in the January issue of School Arts, 1996. "After an introduction to computer drawing and painting tools, my eighth grade students were ready for their first digital landscape assignment..." More>> Read the article, "Digital Scenery," School Arts, January, 1996, p. 32. Karen Jo was part of a team that co-wrote and co-edited the first computer applications curriculum for middle school in MCPS. It was published as a CD, MCPS MS Computer Applications 2.0 Curriculum, July, 1999. At their fall conference in 1995, the Mid-Atlantic Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators honored Karen Jo with an award for Second Place in their fiction contest for her unpublished, young adult fantasy, Naomi's Gift. Below is an excerpt of the story's beginning. "A QUOTE GOES HERE" More>>View the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Mid-Atlantic Region Sample Karen Jo's narrative voice from a children's manuscript on which she currently writes: "At least once in life heaven gives each creature a clear view of the universe. In that instant, we know exactly who we are. Too often, though, as the moment passes our understanding fades. That didn't happen to Motek. His illumination lasted a lifetime..."
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