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November 1, 2015
Artist of the Month: Leslie Watts
I was introduced to Leslie Watts, the amazing figurative painter, by the owner of Wandering Educators and am I glad I was! When I went to her website, I was filled with delight. Her work is humorous, whimsical, and highly detailed. It is wonderful - and I think you will say the same thing.
Leslie not only paints into the wee hours of the morning, but she also privately teaches in her home studio. Many artists teach in workshop form, but...
Dancing to Success at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
Originally from Long Island, New York, Aimee DiAndrea moved to Pittsburgh in 2003. Aimee has been surrounded by the arts from the age of three. She trained in ballet with companiessuch as American Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Ballet, Hungarian National Ballet, and Miami City Ballet. Aimee spent her last two high school yearsaway from home, training at North Carolina School of the Arts, where she majored in ballet. After graduating high school, Aimee...
October 31, 2015
Experiences: An Online Gallery Show of Small Paintings
Art is important. Art matters. And yet, so often, art seems expensive and out of reach. We go to Art Hops, or art fairs, or find that little pottery place on our travels, and buy what we can to bring color and life and art to our homes. We rent art from the local university for a term or more, head to the annual sales at the art insitute. We devour art at museums, stareat that van Gogh, tears fall upon seeingthat Bierstadt you've loved your...
October 30, 2015
How Telecoms are Transforming the Way We Keep in Touch
Cast your mind back 15 years to the turn of the millennium. You would go on holiday with your family or friends, you would pick out a snazzy postcard, you would write a heartfelt message, and you would drop it in the post for those who couldn’t make the trip. For a wandering educator such as yourself, this may be a pleasant trip down memory lane – for the students of today, this would probably be met with “But why wouldn’t you just send a selfie?”
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October 29, 2015
My 7 Favourite Ancient Sites in Rome
Much like Paris, the Italian capital of Rome requires little introduction and not much in terms of marketing. So much of the western world's history was founded within the city and the Empire which covered the Mediterranean that people have been travelling to the city to see where everything began.
For history enthusiasts, a trip to Rome is an inevitability and although I've personally only really fallen in love with drama of the empirical age of I...
Profiles in International Education: Kurt Olausen
With over 20 years of experience in the field of International Education, Kurt Olausen is currently serving as Director of Study Abroad at Eastern Illinois University, in Charleston, IL. Kurt has worked in the field of Education Abroad since 1994 beginning with a position at James Madison University (Harrisonburg, VA). He served as Assistant Director in the Office of Study Abroad at Duke University (Durham, NC) for 10 years, and, mos...
Scary! Best Halloween Travel, Recipes, Books, and More
Can't get enoughHalloween goodness? I can't, either (or of those giant bags of candy we're supposed to hand out to trick or treaters...). I've gathered some great articles from our siteand the sites of several of our editors - all great writers with spooky things to share.
Get ready to eat well, learn about Halloween, travel to see spooky things all around the world, read, listen, and get spooked out...
October 28, 2015
Take a Spooky Haunted Hike in Fredericton, New Brunswick
Do you love haunted hikes? I both love them and get scared, which I guess is a sign of their greatness. Whilst in Fredericton, New Brunswick(a town I dearly love and can't recommend enough) this summer, a local theatre group,the Calithumpians,took us all around town and scared and creeped us out - with spooky stories of history, mayhem, and murder. A graveyard was visited (holy smokes!).
Yeah. A real graveyard.
The actors, all students, were extrao...
A Passion for Working with Youth in the Nonprofit World
Lindsey Marie Miller has been working over 10 years with school age children, in a variety of roles, ranging from tutor to school-age director and everywhere in between. Lindsey currently serves as a Coordinator for Early Childhood & School Age Programs at Providence Connections, Inc. Read her interview below:
How did you choose your major in college? How did you choose the college[s] you chose? Did you have a mentor or person who helped guide yo...
Discover Vancouver: Off the Beaten Path
There's so much to do in Vancouver that you may find yourself going back again and again.You've found your Vancouver hotel, bookmarkedmany of the awesome beaches, are ready to discoverbeer flights, and scoured the internet forgreat restaurants. But while there are plenty of tourist attractions, there are also some very cool things off the traditional tourist track. Here are 6 of my favorite off the beaten path discoveries in Vancouver:
