Lisa
Brooks Ms. Brooks teaches Web Design, Digital Photography and AACE (Asian-American Cultural Exchange) at TVHS. She teaches middle school Art and Information Technology at Twin Valley Middle School (where she is also the webmaster). Ms. Brooks has been an K-12 art teacher for over 25 years in southern VT, and has taught many adult education and college courses as well. She currently teaches both technology and art classes for Community College of Vermont and educational web design for Marlboro Graduate Center. She has created a series of courses for teachers learning technology, and has mentored many teachers in Southern Vermont in creating their own web sites for educational purposes. The Twin Valley High School web site has been redesigned by her Web Design class of '05, and she continues to oversee the role of Webmaster during second semester, while teaching Asian-American Cultural Exchange class to a group of TVHS and Brattleboro Union High School students. This is a hybrid course, part online and part face to face, with a travel component involving a 3 week trip to China in april of 2005. Students learn to make web pages of their family, friends and daily lives in the US (to be viewed by their Chinese peers), research about China, and study Chinese before traveling to China in April of 2005 as cultural ambassadors to the schools of Kunming. The AACE web site houses current student work and a trip "diary" in pictures and text from the 2004 class. Lisa Brooks is an artist as well as teacher, showing locally at Kaos Gallery and being represented at the March Windham Art Gallery show of local art teacher work. She is a founding member of Artwimmin, a women artists' group. She has taken workshops with a variety of well known contemporary artists such as; Aviva Gold, Sas Colby, Tory Hughes and Phoebe Flory. She and her husband, Tim Dalton, are currently building an art studio on their property in Halifax, VT. They have two grown children. |
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