So to review the SOA process, what we can do is:
1. Start with some kind of interesting or even compelling image. Just one. Eric’s suggestion of having the students bring in the pictures, especially if the students themselves were in the pictures, is a good one when choosing images. The main thing is that the image be kept simple.
2. Write down three sentences about it.
3. Ask general questions about the image, restricting and connecting our questions to only the vocabulary found in the three sentences.
4. Ask personalized questions about the image, restricting and connecting our questions to only the vocabulary found in the three sentences.
5. Hand the students a written version of what was just discussed about the image. This would include facts from the image itself but nothing from the PQA process. It’s just a simple preliminary reading to review the basics of the image up to that point.
6. Ask a student to stand up and mirror the image. We get more reps in a new context that way, tricking the students into focusing on a new image that is a real life image so that we can get the reps.
7. ROA on a second, expanded, final reading of what was discussed up to this point in the class. This final reading should include only limited new vocabulary.
8. Textivate, voice recognition, etc.
9. Quick Quiz.
Note: Step 6 above may not even work. We’ll need to test it. I kind of wrote that into the process without having tested it.