Day 4 #OxbowWritingProject: Multi-genre Geography of Bliss - Happiness Digital Maps by @MsBaldridge. Side note: I just loved the title of this one, and it was the first TDD where I felt like I ran out of time to create what I wanted! 1/10
Exercise to try: Begin by writing about a place in your life where you have been happy. This could be written in any genre; I wrote a paragraph for that first one, but it could be a poem, list, anything. This exercise could stand on its own. 2/10
Expanded exercise: Use @padlet to create a map of [3-5] places that represent your happiness. Add photos, videos, etc. of the place, and use the note space to write about each place. Students can then share their maps with each other. This is a great way to build community. 3/10
Additional suggestions: A Padlet (or Google) map could also be used to trace a character's journey, and students could take the perspective of the character for writing. Also, how could you turn a research project into a multi-genre project? 4/10
Afternoon: Selecting a Topic and Overcoming Writer's Block. This is definitely something I needed to be able to share with students as a high school teacher. 5/10
Initial prompt: Write about the most important character from your favorite text. Many (all?) of us interpreted text as book, but it could have been anything. (I should know this better than anyone!) Also recognized that the most important character may not be the main char. 6/10
Example: I wrote about @storiestolife #GenesisBeginsAgain and how her father was the most important character. At first, I was thinking Genesis's grandmother, mother, and father were equally important, but I realized her father was the catalyst for so many of her actions. 7/10
After the initial prompt: Reflect on your writing. How do you select what to write. Example: I thought about books I had read recently and more classics, but I chose Genesis because I hadn't had as many opportunities to process and write about it. 8/10
We also spent some time in a gallery walk with our experiences of writer's block and giving each other advice via silent discussion (sticky notes) about how to overcome writer's block. 9/10
Tip to remember for myself (serious perfectionist) and to pass on to students: Build confidence with positive affirmations. I am a writer. I am a work in progress. My writing is a work in progress. This writing is a reflection of my progress. 10/10
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#OxbowWritingProject Day 3 - Word Choice and Connotation - guiding Q: How does connotation change meaning and impact a reader's understanding? 1/7
Really excellent reminder from a teacher of emergent multilinguals about equity in language: Be aware of academic fatigue. Authors make assumptions about who is reading their text, and some word choices make reading even more [unnecessarily] challenging for students. 2/7
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Day 2 of #OxbowWritingProject opening teaching demo was about images + words, including the provocative idea that decoding an image is different from using an image as a story starter. 1/
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Exercise to try: Creative Connection Spaces- 1) Heading (Theme), 2) Answer - Meaningful connection to today's text w/ image, 3) Bridge - Explain choices, thought process, how reading connects to response. [My note: This reminded me of sketch notes / interactive notebook.] 3/
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Better-late-than-never reflection on my first day with #OxbowWritingProject with @write2memags and amazing teachers. I am absolutely LOVING the teaching demonstrations - many cool ideas that I would like to try in my own classroom and pass along to my teacher candidates. 1/
First up was a great reminder that there are multiple types of #listening that are context-dependent: conversational, reflective, and rhetorical. Elementary students are explicitly taught about listening, while secondary students typically are not (but prob should be!). 2/
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