What Makes a Story Badly Written?
This post shows the results of a question box from my Instagram story.
Millennium Falcon – Pirate Ship by David Kennedy
Millennium Falcon – Pirate Ship by David Kennedy is beautiful. According to David’s blog, he researched several modelling forums and decided that he wanted to make this as detailed as h…
Following Directions
I'm student teaching with a resource teacher, which means that I often get to push into other classes and observe what is going on in the general education classrooms. I had the pleasure, while taking data last week, to witness the most hilarious lesson I think I've ever seen! Apparently the students had been experiencing difficulty with following directions so to assess who could follow directions and who could not, the teacher and student teacher in this classroom made a list of directions to follow, the first of which was to read all the directions before doing anything and the…
Persuasive Writing Project Defend a Villain – Fractured Fairy Tales Writing
Your students will be thrilled with this engaging persuasive writing project. In this project, they'll step into the shoes of a defense attorney, passionately arguing that their chosen fairy tale villain is innocent! A fantastic project to help your students understand character point of view. This completely planned, zero-prep project takes students through each step, guiding them as they dive deep into the motives and actions of classic characters such as the Big Bad Wolf, Cinderella's Evil Sister, the Queen from Snow White, and Goldilocks. All you have to do is print the necessary materials, run the digital slides, and…
Why Your Students Need Online Discussion Boards and How to Create One – Study All Knight
Teachers can use learning management systems (Google Classroom, Blackboard, Edmodo, Canvas) to create online discussion boards for their students.
Breath Two: Tidal Shift Painting
About The Artwork This work is a morph between my Emotional Landscapes and Cockle Hunter and Breath series. I live next to a large tidal bay and at each low tide the shape and size of the reflective pools left behind are constantly changing. I am using this idea as a metaphor for the 'SHIFT', climate change is expressing on the world's coastlines, reflective pools expressing the true lifeline we have the SKY, the invisible life support system, AIR, ATMOSPHERE. The person in this work is watching the birds flying in the diffused light, this represents the fleeting fragile balance…
