New word for week 3: DIFFERENT

What do you consider different? Post it! Onto the 52words flickr page (click left).

I am amazed at all of the photos this week. This was an incredibly difficult word. Lots of people wrote in and said they didn't know what to submit, that it was too hard. That they were stumped. All of this, in and of itself, I find interesting. Despite the hardship---ALL of these people who told me they were having difficulties submitted a photo. Then there is my dad who decided to submit 3 photos instead of the alloted ONE. Hilarious! You couldn't decide, could you?

There is still so much I can do with this concept. And the idea of creating a curriculum for non-profits to use all over the world still hangs high on my list of 52words priorities. This could really localize it. Some random examples that could be interesting in the 52words effort: 16 year olds at 1 school in Nepal, a regular Brazilian highschool, a battered women's shelter in south Florida. This project could teach them not only about photography, but about themselves, their classmates, their peers, their lives. I could work with an educator and photography teacher to create the curriculum into 52 modules. Short and easy to use. Anyone could upload these modules off the internet and use them easily in a classroom or with any non-profit group of beneficiaries. A teacher, a volunteer, a caseworker could work with the class (or group). From that year's worth of work together---surely one or two exemplary students or group members would latch onto the concept. Develop a love for photography and for going out into the world and conducting the 52words project on their own. Train the trainers! If anyone out there is reading this blog. Let me know your thoughts on this!!