The Studio is the professional center for Cynthia Porter Gehrie, Ph.D. who is Co-Founder of Video Documentation Fund.
Current Projects
Web Site, Lake Forest Openlands Association. To be launched March 1999.
Whirlwind -- a 25 minute teaching video and a 12 minute presentation video demonstrate the use of dance to teach basic reading skills. Audio and visual segments will be on the new Whirlwind web site. Ready February 1999. With teacher Lynn White and dancer Liz Johnston.
"Pillars of Peace for the 21st Century"-- a video and study guide based on consultations by the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA, held in New York, Chicago and San Francisco in the Spring and Fall of l998. The focus is on the changing nature of global conflict and the necessary framework to support global cooperation and peace with justice. A teach -in was held at the National Assembly in November in Chicago. The video is available in January 1999.
Video Documentation
Center for Instructional Research and Curriculum Evaluation -- CIRCE ( College of Education University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ) project, preparing three video scenarios for use in interviews with Chicago Public School principals that participate in programs at the Teacher's Academy for Math and Science at IIT. With Bob Stake and Theresa Souchet. September 1998
"Portraits of Student Engagement" a videograph of staff development as demonstrated and told by teachers from Amundsen High School, Chicago Public Schools. Co-Produced with Alice Horwitz from the Small Schools Workshop. June 1998
"Aftermath of War," Presbyterian Church, USA and De Paul University, a video documentation and reconstruction of the peace mission to Croatia by Tom Mockaitis, Ph.D, Chair of the History Department, De Paul University. Summer 1998.
"Wellstreams," A videograph of Lenten activities by a dynamic spirituality group that nurtures the feminine. May 1998
Church Women United , a video documentation of the "Global Mission Consultation," San Francisco, California. December 1997, sponsored by The Stanley Foundation.
National Women's Summit, sponsored by The Stanley Foundation and hosted in Lake Bluff, Illinois -- a video from the summit ("On the Threshold of a Unifying Mechanism") was presented at the National Women's Conference in Washington D.C., in November 1997.
- Web Sites
- Mothers of Many Styles
Archival Projects- "Lily Pond/ Rookery"-- a video used by the Friends of Lincoln Park in collaboration with the National Forest Service in focus groups discussing plans to restore the Rookery, a natural landscape and birding area attached to Lincoln Park Zoo.
- "Are The Children Learning? How Do We Know?" A video for McCosh Elementary School in partnership with Roosevelt University and Chicago Teachers' Center, Northeastern Illinois University. Combines classroom footage videotaped by teachers and university staff into a retrospective of staff development and teaching innovation for use in introducing evaluators to McCosh for the State Evaluation Team.
- "Gestic Theater Company," editing of performance and talk back session where college students view skits on racism and respond through guided discussion to understand subtle aspects of racially based communication.