Teaching
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My students learn and grow freely within rich bodies of knowledge in visual communication design that I introduce from diverse global cultures. I equip my students with not just intentful practical wisdom but the social and emotional skills to work in an attentive and convivial way with others. I do my best to open up areas of opportunity for them to pursue their curiosities, goals, and dreams.
Comprehensive sustainability education joins sensory, imaginative, aesthetic, intuitive, and spiritual facets to the cognitive.— Joan Armon, Prioritizing Sustainability Education: A Comprehensive Approach
Support for Students with Neurodiversity
With student Brianna Morano, the Disability Resource Center (Emi DiScullo), and Professor Amy Papaelias, we are co-designing materials to support students with neurodiversity. Below, please find some of this toolkit and let me know what you learn!
Executive Functions Cards Print.pdf1890.1KB
Ph.D Skimming.pdf829.9KB
Two-Week Planner.pdf1846.2KB
UDL Handout.pdf623.2KB
Collected Student Examples
The portfolios below show the students’ work in the context of their case studies, process books, and blog posts. Students reflect on their work and give context to it.
Joshua Korenblat Teaching: Collected Student Examples.pdf14155.3KB
Education for the Real World
2019 National Geographic Magazine Graphics Department Internship: One way to be a world-class storyteller? Visualize it. – SUNY New Paltz News
2019 National Geographic Magazine Graphics Department Internship: One way to be a world-class storyteller? Visualize it. – SUNY New Paltz News
2016—2017 Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage: Design students step into the profession as summer Smithsonian interns – SUNY New Paltz News
2016—2017 Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage: Design students step into the profession as summer Smithsonian interns – SUNY New Paltz News
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. – Plutarch
2018 Jen Christiansen, Art Director at Scientific American Magazine: Workshop with Graphic Design Students
Photos of Jen’s data visualization workshop with Graphic Design students.
2017 Mohonk Preserve Collaboration
Viewing the naturalist data collection with the Mohonk Preserve science education team
Viewing the naturalist data collection with the Mohonk Preserve science education team
Data is anything we collect that has the potential to be organized and become meaningful.
Data is anything we collect that has the potential to be organized and become meaningful.
2016 Blue Sky Studios Field Trip
A visit to Blue Sky Studios _ Graphic Design.pdf835.9KB
Connecting Students to Professionals in the Field
Connecting Students to Professionals in the Field.pdf2036.8KB
Other Guests Who’ve Lectured and Met my Students in Courses
- Dave Gray, author of Gamestorming and Liminal Thinking
- David Whitmore, former Design Director, National Geographic Magazine
- Fernando Baptista, Staff Artist, National Geographic Magazine
- Heather Larkin, Blue Sky Studios Storyboard Artist and Director of Story
- Will Merrow, Data Visualization Designer, Council of Foreign Relations
- Alec Longstreth, Comic Book Artist, Center for Cartoon Studies, Vermont
- Steven Weinberg, Children’s Book Illustrator and Writer
- Russell Ginns, Children’s Book Author and Alum of Sesame Workshop
