Meagan Brown
Meagan told me an idea for next year. I think it has a lot of potential in immediate and front loaded personalization. You ask the kids to bring in images of their "mascotas" or family pets or any animal that
Jim Tripp On Illustrating Stories
Every now and again I have to take comments and make them into blogs so that they can be searched. So sorry if they're on here twice. Jim's stuff below about illustrating stories (I asked him to expand on an
Jim Tripp
This is a recent comment by Jim that I am making into a blog so that I can add it to a new category on the right of this page called "Beginning the Year". There is a lot that could
Next Year
Michele and I were talking about what to do next year and here are some of her resolutions with my responses italicized. I think that there are more in another email she sent me and Michele you can add them as a comment
Nathan Black – The Big Picture
The Big Picture has been a wonderful resource for me this year. Most of what shows up is related to current news footage, and as such is mostly useful for my 3 / 4 combined class who enjoy talking about
Nathan Black – Using Pictures To Create CI
I really appreciate Nathan's kind response to my request that he expand on a comment he made here about using pictures in our CI classrooms. Here is a nice text that really lays out a lot of details about this thread
Jim Tripp – Wallflowers
So many of the characters in stories and PQA are right off the walls. For example, in Picasso's painting The Old Guitarist, of which I have a copy hanging in the room, the skinny white-haired guy is called 'Jesus Stefanopolis'
Grab 5 Lesson By Ben Slavic – A Suggestion About Starting Off An Input Based Class
Put an X mark through the black square once you have done the step: Write these three expressions (any three can be used - perhaps one from a story script you plan to use soon) on the board in L2 and then