Stor e Telling August September 2015: Workshops

The Pearl of the Elephant
by
Edmund Dulac, 1920

I have been remiss in continuing to share my Stor  e Telling articles from 2015. Since the conference proposal season is upon us it seems timely to post these resources from the August September 2015 issue of Storytelling Magazine.

The theme for this issue of Storytelling Magazine issue was workshops and I selected some articles, tutorials and icebreakers to help make your next workshop truly work!

If you have the time or the inclination, I would love it if you would leave a comment and let me know if this information is useful for your work. I read and respond to every comment and love hearing from you!

10 Steps To Plan a Workshop – Tips to help you design your workshop, craft an agenda, select a venue, and more.

http://workshops.350.org/toolkit/planning/

A Workbook On Designing Successful Workshops – A forty-three page booklet with detailed instructions, including work pages, to plan and conduct a successful workshops.
http://www.mcgill.ca/medicinefacdev/files/medicinefacdev/DesigningWorkshopsWorkbook.pdf

Community Toolbox: Conducting a Workshop – Helpful steps and information organize and present your workshop. There are other sections that cover organizing conferences, retreats and teleconferences.

http://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/structure/training-and-technical-assistance/workshops/main

How To Run a Good Workshop – Very useful tips in a short article by bestselling author and speaker Scott Berkun.
http://scottberkun.com/2013/run-a-good-workshop/

Planning A Workshop: Organizing and Running a Successful Event
https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/PlanningAWorkshop.htm

Interested in using Skype to conduct your workshops? Below are three tutorials to help you quickly climb the learning ladder.

4 Things to Help Novice Users of Virtual Meeting Tools: Making Skype Meetings Run Smoothly

https://blog.piirus.ac.uk/2015/04/17/4-things-for-skype-meetings/

Skype Tutorial – Four separate, short tutorials that will help you learn how to use Skype from beginning to end.

http://www.top-windows-tutorials.com/install-skype/

And if you prefer a video tutorial, follow this link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMAeAeyh7zM

Some sites offering icebreakers and activities to add conviviality to your workshops.

40 Icebreakers for Small Groups

http://insight.typepad.co.uk/40_icebreakers_for_small_groups.pdf

100 Ways to Energize Groups: Games to Use in Workshops, Meetings and the Community
http://www.aidsalliance.org/assets/000/001/052/ene0502_Energiser_guide_eng_original.pdf?1413808298

Partners for Your Empowerment: Workshop Activities/Icebreakers – A twenty-three page booklet chockfull of exercises.
http://pyeglobal.org/workshop-activities-icebreakers/

September 22 is Elephant Appreciation Day. Here are some stories to celebrate these gentle giants.

And Elephants Did Fly - Southern Orissa, India

http://tinyurl.com/ns7s8bl

The Blind Man and the Elephant - India

http://tinyurl.com/3hf2d

The Elephant and the Dog – Bhutan

http://tinyurl.com/njh9yoy

The Elephant and the Mahout – Magadha/Ancient India

http://tinyurl.com/pjsh6t2

Elephant and Tortoise – South Africa

http://tinyurl.com/nrk9sd6

Fearing the Wind - India

http://spiritoftrees.org/fearing-the-wind

How the Elephant Got His Tusks - Africa

http://tinyurl.com/o4eq88a

The Tortoise and the Elephant - Nigeria

http://tinyurl.com/p252edy

The Tortoise Captures the Elephant - Africa

http://tinyurl.com/k7ax99r

The Elephants Nose – India

http://tinyurl.com/p6y62ly

Story-lovers.com – More elephant information than you can shake your trunk at!

http://tinyurl.com/p78s93e

Curriculum for the classroom to complement Elephant Appreciation Day.

The Blind Man and the Elephant
https://www.peacecorps.gov/educators/resources/blind-men-and-elephant/

The Elephant Sanctuary – Two units focusing on the study of elephants offering teaching and learning activities for children grades K-8 consisting of  72 pages of instruction, background information, charts and graphs, activities, etc.
http://www.elephants.com/curriculum.php

September 7 is Labor Day in the United States. In this blog post I offer you some multicultural folktales about workers around the world to add to your repertoire. You will also find crafts, curriculum resources, and some history of the holiday.

Labor Day: A Tribute to the American Worker

http://tinyurl.com/nmp5dsa

Something Extra

The link below was not part of the original Storytelling Magazine article. However, since then I have written a new blog, Putting Your Proposal Pieces Together; I think it will be a useful complement to the above resources.
http://karenchace.blogspot.com/2016/05/putting-your-proposal-pieces-together.html

Please note, websites change at a rapid pace and weblinks may change or break without notice. I cannot be responsible for redirected or broken links.  At the time of this posting all links were in working order. Thank you for understanding.

Karen Chace 2016 ©

This blog post was researched and compiled by Karen Chace. Permission for private use is granted. Distribution, either electronically or on paper is prohibited without my expressed written permission. For permission please contact me at storybug@aol.com. Of course, if you wish to link to my blog via your website, blog, newsletter, Facebook page or Twitter please feel free to do so; I greatly appreciate your support and personal integrity.

Labor Day: A Tribute to the American Worker



Work

by Ford Madox Brown, 1865

The summer sun is still high in the sky but we all know how fleeting the wonderful warm months really are. Although the first day of fall is not until September 22, the Labor Day holiday, on September 2 this year, traditionally heralds the end of summer here in New England. Many celebrate with the traditional family cookout, parades, picnics and even fireworks; a sendoff to summer before school begins again.

Yet, the real reason for the holiday isn’t so we can say goodbye to summer in style, but to pay tribute to the American worker and their contributions to the well-being of the country. Below I offer you some multicultural folktales about workers around the world to add to your repertoire, and of course some crafts and curriculum resources as well. But first, a little history of the holiday…

• Labor Day, is the first Monday in September every year and is a creation of the labor movement in the United States.
• The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City.
• Some state that Matthew Maguire proposed the holiday in 1882 when he was secretary of the Central Labor Union of New York.  Others argue it was proposed by Peter J. McGuire of the American Federation of Labor in 1882 after he witnessed the annual labour festival in Toronto, Canada.
• Oregon was the first state to make it a holiday on February 21, 1887.
• President Grover Cleveland signed it into law as a national holiday in 1894 in an effort to conciliate organized labor after the Pullman Strike.

The above information came from the following websites:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day

https://www.dol.gov/general/laborday/history    

STORIES

Gluskabe Changes Maple Syrup – Native American/Abenaki

http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/GluskabeChangesMapleSyrup-Abenaki.html

John Henry, the Steel Driving Man – United States

http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2010/07/john_henry.html

Lazy Jack – England

http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/efft/efft73.htm

Manabozho and the Maple Trees – Native American/Ojibewe

http://www.native-languages.org/ojibwestory.htm

Stand the Toil - Swedish

http://oaks.nvg.org/stal13-15.html#toil

The Ant and the Grasshopper – Aesop/Greece

http://www.bartleby.com/17/1/36.html  

The Calabash Kids – Tanzania

http://www.aaronshep.com/stories/024.html

The Devil and the Werewolves – French Canadian

http://tinyurl.com/lzklawm

The Disobedient Son – Mayan

http://tinyurl.com/l9u9e2r

The Elves and the Shoemaker – Grimm/Germany

http://www.authorama.com/grimms-fairy-tales-39.html

The Great Drum - Africa

http://www.folktales.net/ujima.html
The Golden Mountain – Russia

http://www.compassrose.org/folklore/russian/Golden-Mountain.html

The Hard Working Girl and the Lazy Girl – Hungary

http://tinyurl.com/ptwzmwc 
The Hired Hand – Iceland

http://www.theicelandguide.com/folktales/the-hired-hand

The Husband Who Was To Mind the House – Norway

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/norway010.html

The Labors of Hercules - Greece

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Herakles/labors.html

The Little Red Hen – England

http://archive.org/stream/thelittleredhen18735gut/18735.txt

The Speaking Stone - England

http://tinyurl.com/kn9ev5a

The Success in Life of Three Brothers – Japan

http://enargea.org/tales/Japanese/3_bros.html

  

BOOKS

Apples4theTeacher – Children’s Books for Labor Day and Community Helpers

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/labor-day/kids-books/

CRAFTS

Enchanted Learning – Labor Day Crafts, Activities

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/laborday/

Apples4theTeacher – Labor Day Coloring Pages

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/coloring-pages/labor-day/

CURRICULUM

Education World - Great Sites For Teaching About... Labor Day and U.S. Labor History
http://www.educationworld.com/a_sites/sites045.shtml

National Education Association - Labor Resources Help Students Learn More About Working Men and Women

http://www.nea.org/tools/lessons/labor-resources.html

The Strike that Shook America – Bread and Roses
http://www.history.com/news/the-strike-that-shook-america-100-years-ago
(My thanks to Nicolette Nordin Heavey for reminding me of this piece of  history.)

Please note, websites change at a rapid pace and weblinks may change or break without notice. I cannot be responsible for redirected or broken links.  At the time of this posting all links were in working order. Thank you for understanding.

Karen Chace 2013 ©

This blog post was researched and compiled by Karen Chace. Permission for private use is granted. Distribution, either electronically or on paper is prohibited without my expressed written permission. For permission please contact me at storybug@aol.com. Of course, if you wish to link to my blog via your website, blog, newsletter, Facebook page or Twitter please feel free to do so; I greatly appreciate your support and personal integrity.