Claire wrote:
“My class artist draws on my Surface and it projects for the whole class (this would work with ipad – but I think my pen works better). She’s super fast at drawing and very skilled. Students give her directions in French real-time as she’s drawing it.
“With my ELLs, we do this routinely (even for classes without storytelling) and it takes pressure off. Even kids have been silent all year start “dictating”/directing the artist on what to draw and how. They really get into it.
“I definitely will try the Creator of the Invisibles (maybe I’ll play some creepy Halloween music while we draw.) I like endless creativity and the writing component in the Invisibles art.”
[Ed. note: The reason this is, in my view, such a unique idea is that it brings the artist MORE into the flow of the CI than less, which is what happened when she was in her little iPad bubble during the drawing of the story, kind of in her own little world, so much so that I actually have started requiring artists to draw stick figures and take a pic of the story writer’s notes and then drawing at home so that they could be fully conscious of the CI and not getting parts of it.]
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