Asst. Prof of Teacher Ed, University of Nebraska at Omaha. Research mentoring and English ed. Tweets are my own and do not represent my employer. she/her/hers
Jul 18, 2021 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
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
Jul 16, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
#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
Jul 15, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
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/
Exercise to try: OPTIC Analysis (Minor, 2021) 2/ ncte.org/blog/2021/01/v…
Jul 14, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
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/
