In order to pull off my great stunt, I find myself with thirty minutes to kill at the Peabody Essex Museum. I go to my favorite of the exhibits - US Maritime - and putter around for a bit. I still have twenty more minutes until I am meeting a friend (who will also help smuggle me into one of the MPF events).On my way to another event, I happen across the collection from the Pacific Northwest. We are about to start a unit on the native cultures in the Vancouver area, so I snap a few pictures of the artifacts and of some of the background placards. I'll set up a short presentation or create a lesson with the pictures. You know, real world colliding with school world combined with cyber world.
After I am done watching the video loop of a young Tlingit hip hop artist dancing to native music interspersed with a Tlingit elder dancing traditional native steps to hip hop music, I tear through one more exhibit before meeting the pal who will help me with my quest to be a guest at the next event.(P.S. I do manage to get into the event without breaking too many rules. Thanks, TH!)
