Travel Journaling of Educator, Painter, Author, Maryann DiEdwardo (Pasda)

2014 January
En Plein Air Painting Excursions

Maryann Pasda DiEdwardo is a member of  the Bethlehem Palette Club and the former artistic co-director of Pasda Art Studios in Bethlehem. She is an en plein air painter.
In January, 2014, during the heavy snow storms in the Lehigh Valley, Maryann painted her environment in oils and watercolors to depict the beauty and awe of the snow laden valley.

Maryann DiEdwardo's Travel Journaling 2014 (Author of The Legacy of Katharine Hepburn, Fine Art As A Way of Life)

Maryann DiEdwardo's Travel Journaling
2014 January 3:A theatre event in NYC.
I saw No Man's Land, a play by Harold Pinter with a cast of Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart which was at The Cort Theatre. A LIFE CHANGING moment for me, since I was so grateful to the actors for their performances and for the theatre they chose.  The Cort Theatre was the place where Katharine Hepburn played the part of Rosalind in As You Like It! I realized that the actress, Katharine Hepburn, had performed there, and I had written about her performance!
Overview
THE LEGACY OF KATHARINE HEPBURN: Fine Art as a Way of Life Maryann Pasda DiEdwardo Memoir The legacy of the late Katharine Hepburn undeniably benefits a twenty-first century audience, because Kate identifies the artistic spirit. As one of the most important women of the twentieth century, Hepburn was an artist who exemplified the independent character, freedom and opportunity available to women as paramount whether she was on stage or in film. As the late Hepburn, she has become a living art spirit with a legacy that acts as a shining example.
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9781425960896
Publisher: Authorhouse
Publication date: 9/28/2006
Pages: 172
Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.40 (d)

Maryann Pasda DiEdwardo is quoted in wikipedia for her writing about Katharine Hepburn.

Visit the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Hepburn

View Reference 308:
Maryann Pasda DiEdwardo has claimed that Hepburn's performances fostered a "decisiveness toward a new vision of women."[308] Off screen, Hepburn lived in a manner ahead of her time.[238]

'''Maryann DiEdwardo''' is the author of Music Transforms the College English Classroom
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL11972010M/Music_Transforms_the_College_English_Classroom
a researcher who has connected music and linguistic intelligences. In 2004, statistical results of Maryann DiEdwardo's case study research suggest that pairing music and linguistic intelligences in the college classroom improves students’ grades and abilities to compose theses statements for research papers in courses that emphasize reading and writing skills (DiEdwardo 2004 http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ773903&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=EJ773903).

In initial study in 2003, Maryann refined Howard Gardner’s (1993) definition of music as a “separate intellectual competence” and compared music intelligence to linguistic intelligence. Furthermore, through acknowledgement of MI Theory, educators infuse cognitive abilities of students by helping them “think” as one of my students suggested. As Howard Gardner suggests, “Very worthwhile. The next step is to figure out why you got the effects that you did. Is music motivational? Does it activate other brain centers? Does it have some kind of intrinsic link to linguistic capacities? Would the effect work the other way around, or with other materials (2004 email)?”

Writing about Art by Maryann DiEdwardo

http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/trial/pocahontas/essays.php?id=2

Maryann DiEdwardo Presents Papers for Northeast Modern Language Association Conf in Harrisburg PA and College English Association Conf in Baltimore MD 2014

News from Maryann

I am presenting at 2 conferences so far this spring:
Northeast Modern Language Association in Harrisburg PA on April 4, 2013 to read my paper on African American Literature and College English Association in Baltimore, MD on March 25, 2013 to read my newest paper on Metacognition in the study of Writing.

Maryann P. DiEdwardo Ed.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor
UMUC
maryann.diedwardo@faculty.umuc.edu

Private Yoga, Tai Chi and QiGong Classes in Bethlehem, PA

                         

Maryann DiEdwardo M.A., Ed.D. Certified Yoga, Tai Chi and QiGong Instructor.

Private yoga, tai chi and qigong classes. 

Email: Diedwardo7@gmail.com

     As a health educator, Maryann is committed to promoting Yoga and Tai Chi and QiGong for health improvement. She is an outstanding public speaker who has lead seminars for groups in art, haiku, meditation, writing, and education. Maryann received the Northampton Community College Project Aware Outstanding Service Award and holds a volunteer position for The National QiGong Association Research and Education Committee (Terminology Task Force) A member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists, Himalayan Institute, and Yoga Alliance, she is an experienced registered certified yoga instructor E-RYT500 and a board member of the National QiGong Association. 

 

    She has written 30 books and noteworthy articles about healing, such as The Horse Keeper: The Healing Gifts of Painting and Writing about Horses, a collection of remembrances based on nature, especially horses, as guides. Maryann has presented at the annual Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching Washington, DC in 2010, 2011, and 2012. Maryann DiEdwardo contributes original research on importance of her own practice of yoga, t’ai chi, and journaling. She studied theatre arts, jazz dance and ballet, then started to focus on the marital arts including tai chi and qigong for thirty years with masters in the United States. Her newest free E-Book entitled 

Lesson Plans for Restorative Yoga and T’ai Chi 

is available online at http://maryannpasdadiedwardo.wikispaces.com/E-Book

Case Study Research

In 2004, statistical results of Dr. DiEdwardo’s case study research suggest that pairing music and linguistic intelligences in the college classroom improves students’ grades and abilities to compose theses statements for research papers in courses that emphasize reading and writing skills (DiEdwardo 2004).   In initial study in 2003, Maryann refined Howard Gardner’s (1993) definition of music as a “separate intellectual competence” and compared music intelligence to linguistic intelligence. Furthermore, through acknowledgement of MI Theory, educators infuse cognitive abilities of students by helping them “think” as one of her students suggested.  Her article, “Pairing Music and Linguistic Intelligences”  was published in the Record, Vol. 41, No. 3, Spring 2005.   Kappa Delta Pi, International Education Honors Society.  

 

 

Practice prayer to heal

                                                      PRACTICE TO HEAL

Maryann DiEdwardo Ed.D.

1. Introduction 

2. What is Vertigo? (5 Psalms)

3. Review of the Research 

4. Power Points 

5. Practice Pairing Music and Naturalistic Intelligences with prayer

Adjunct Professor, practitioner of QiGong, Taiji and Yoga, Yoga and Qigong Therapist, Health Educator, Maryann DiEdwardo Ed.D. E-RY500, is committed to promoting art and writing for health improvement. She is an outstanding public speaker who has lead seminars for groups in art, cancer therapy through yoga, qigong and taiji for chronic illness, haiku, meditation, mindfulness, and education.  

Maryann received the Northampton Community College Project Aware Outstanding Service Award and holds a volunteer position for The National QiGong Association Research and Education Committee (Terminology Task Force). 

She was elected to the National QiGong Board in 2013. She is the author  of 30 books and articles. 

Maryann on Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Maryann-DiEdwardo-Yoga-Therapy-Hatha-Yoga-Taijiquan/436187786427201?fref=ts

Maryann on LinkedIn    http://www.linkedin.com/pub/maryann-diedwardo/21/178/672                   

Dr. Maryann DiEdwardo writes about Practices to Heal

This week, I am writing about the arts as healing. Engage in writing a nature journal or taking a walk to collect photos as themes for watercolors. 

I write books about music and healing. 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1434314294/ref=redir_mdp_mobile?pc_redir=1

While you are walking, listen to favorite melodies if possible or hum these! Music changes us as does nature and change of thought pattern. 

Have a great day 

Maryann