Unpacking Picture Books

In the past few months, I’ve analyzed a couple of picture books, Those Shoes and Sweet Smell of Roses , to determine the craft moves I can teach my students. As a result of analyzing these books, I’ve developed teaching points off of the craft moves.
Ruth and I picked up a bunch of [...]

Reflecting on Digi-Storytelling

Last night, Stacey & I put together our first digital story.  Although it is quite rough, a bit cheesy, and borderline ridiculous — the benefits far outweigh the potential embarrassing consequences of posting it.  Between then and now, I’ve thought about the process that we engaged in while creating our digital story, as well as [...]

Moments of Clarity

Snowden Campbell presented at NCTE on Saturday afternoon. She shared a strategy called “Moments of Clarity” with us. Moments of Clarity are essentially epiphanies we have as humans… it’s when we realize something big that happened to us in life and when it happened. (I drew a t-chart where one side had [...]

Online Brainstorming Tool

The newest Web 2.0 Tool I learned about yesterday at NCTE is called bubbl.us. It’s a brainstorming tool, which I briefly demonstrated, while Ruth taped me using a digital camera, in the video we recorded yesterday (below). In the video, you’ll see me creating a personal word web, which was mentioned in a [...]