As more of us start working with the Invisibles and experimenting with storytelling using emergent language based on visual images created by the class (through a One Word Image or an image from an individual in class), let’s create a way to share images and stories of the characters that emerge.
The quality of the image is of such importance in these stories, as we let the language emerge from the image. A compelling image is thus of the highest importance. So, let’s share the characters that have led to engagement and compelling stories.
I can say from personal experience that I love many of the characters that my students have created, and other teachers who are working with them report the same. Examples of characters that have a strong use of color and line and are visually striking, and change the CI game, turning it on its head.
Images that you may have come up with with your kids while working with a one word image or with an emergent story are therefore welcome and encouraged. Please send them to Tina at tinahargaden, her gmail account. It would be really interesting to also have the stories that emerged from the characters’ images. It is nice to know what kinds of characters are emerging in our different classrooms.
We can put them in a Google Doc of the images, which can be accessed at this link.
Share them with your students if you want give them ideas. Of course, kids won’t want to use the images from any other classes than their own, but it might be fun if they could see some of them, so that they can say how much better their own class images are. That’s what they do.