Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Maryann DiEdwardo presents lecture for Lilly Cpnference

   I am presenting a 40 minute lecture at the Lilly Conference in Bethesda MD on Saturday June 1:

                                 Writing as a Learning Community

                   to Promote Student Authentic Assessment and Transformation

 

                                                       Abstract

My class is organized to become a learning community with a focus writing

short stories as authentic assessments

                         The Outcome: self  understanding and transformation

By telescoping into a shorter version, writers succeed in the learning community.

The framework short story fuses authentic assessment and multiculturalism as a focus

to envision the student in a creative process

Friday, May 3, 2013

Art and the Alphabet

Literacy

Alphabet Book

By Maryann DiEdwardo

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1438906412/ref=mp_s_a_1?qid=1367611443&sr=1-13&pi=SL75

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

QiGong by Maryann DiEdwardo

Maryann DiEdwardo is a professional teacher of QiGong and has experienced healing from her personal practice.  
    Lifetime Member of the National QiGong Association, teacher of Yoga, Taijiquan and QiGong at local hospital; researcher with interests in healing by the practice of qigong; case study research on multiple intelligence theory by pairing music and linguistic intelligences (published article in THE RECORD VOl. 41 No. 3 Spring 2005); workshop provider for benefits for QiGong for Parkinson's and MS as well as cancer patients; researcher on the task force for the National QiGong Association Research and Education Committee (2012-2013) and selected to speak for the 2013 NQA conference in Philadephia about her own healing due to the practice of QiGong, Member of the Yoga Alliance, E-RYT500; Maryann Pasda DiEdwardo Ed.D. has been practicing and teaching qigong and yoga for thirty years in Pennsylvania. She is also co-author on an article about QiGong and Wikipedia that is a google doc in the process of being edited with CJ Rhoads.    

     She is an Adjunct Professor for Writing for Graduate Researchers for the Lehigh University Computer Science and Engineering Department Graduate School and Adjunct Associate Professor for University of Maryland University College in English, Writing and Literature.

   The recipient of the Northampton Community College Project Aware Outstanding Service Award, she is also a member of Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in Education, Certified Yoga Instructor and Experienced Registered Yoga Instructor. Maryann studies at the Himalayan Institute in Honesdale Pennsylvania.
Maryann DiEdwardo’s quote appeared in Healthy You Magazine, May 2012:
“Yoga is very calming,” says health network yoga instructor Maryann DiEdwardo. “It also helps you respect the changes in your body that cancer causes. It’s a healing force on many levels.”
Healthy You Magazine. “How Exercise Helps Cancer Recovery.” May 2012.
http://www.lvhn.org/healthyyoumay12|7732