"It's better to burn out, than fade away!" Sorry, couldn't resist, if you read my profile & know anything about 1980's rock music you'll know where that came from. My name is Heather Fouts and this is my first blog. I'm going to use it to organize my projects and get input from others for my class on using computers in education. I hope that it not only gets me a good grade in my class, but also becomes something I can keep on using to showcase things going on with other classes I take, stuff I'm doing, art I'm working on, or just things I'm interested in. So far the experience has been enjoyable. The most difficulty I have had so far has been with my module 2 PowerPoint uploads. I think I made him too fancy because he does not travel well to all the places he needs to go. I hope to have a little more success with blogging and I welcome classmates and anyone else creating or thinking of creating their own blog to post so we can work on this together!
A little bit about me:
I'm a graduate student at Indiana University taking classes toward my master's degree in Art Education. The most common reply I get to that is "Where are you going to find a job with that?" or "They're cutting the art programs in schools." If I had a dollar for every time I've heard something similar to these statements I wouldn't need to worry about having a job at all! It's like the knee-jerk response for most people. I have faith that I am on the right path with my education. I'm expanding my knowledge on something I know I'm good at and hopefully someday I can make a living off of it.
I live in Kokomo with my boyfriend Ryan and my tomcat Coaltrain. Ryan and his mother, Linda have been really supportive of my decision to pursue my art career. Coaltrain has posed for a few sketches. I'm an only child of Hiram and Posie Fouts. My dad worked for forty plus years as an electrician at Delco/Delphi Electronics and my mom has always worked at home. I can tell that my parents aren't 100% sure how to feel about my decision to move on from my semi-successful past ten years of employment at STAR Bank, but I think they will be happy for me in the end. I've rushed in to less intelligent commitments in the past and my parents were there to see me through it, so I get their hesitance to jump on board with any of my latest and greatest of ideas.
I serve on the Board of Trustees for the Howard County Historical Society (HCHS) and Museum. I help them arrange special events and plan exhibits at the Seiberling Mansion. Before HCHS, I worked as a volunteer at the Indianapolis Children's Museum. My job there was working in the Dinosphere exhibit as a lab technician removing the matrix of dirt and rock around fossilized dinosaur bones. I explained what I was doing to people when they approached my window in the lab. In October I can usually be found working the Headless Horseman event at Conner Prairie Living History Museum in Fishers, IN. I'll be somewhere near the hayride, loading people into the hay wagon of doom and sending them off into the forest to meet their fate with the Horseman.
I'm going to work on attaching links to the events and places I have mentioned so far as well as to some of the things mentioned in my profile. My coursework for W200 will also be accessible here. I hope anyone who decides to follow me enjoys what I post and I look forward to seeing what they "have to say!"
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