January 26, 2017

The Data Piece

The data piece is vastly overrated in language classes, because of the intensely human, not robotic nature of human communication. Paying more attention to students’ eyes and body language shows us far better than tests what they are absorbing and if they are with us.

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Getting the Problem

As Tina said, the problem with the Realm was that there was no plot and hence no problem. I did not know then (fourteen years ago) that a good problem emerges from the quality of the image and any back story on the character. So I am saying that in order to have a good

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Comment on the Invisibles -1

Lizette Liebold recently publicly said this about the Invisibles: …the Invisibles are a creative way to develop characters but not anything earth-shattering…. I disagree, but privately. However, Tina, with whom I wrote the book on the Invisibles (it would not exist without her) took a more expressive stance on that comment. Here it is: …I

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