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A Wonderful Visual Outlining The 7 Steps of Good Storytelling
One of the wonderful things about this learning space (I mean this blog) is that it is built collaboratively around a shared interest. This is what James Paul Gee called 'passionate affinity learning' . "Passionate-affinity learning occurs when people organize themselves in the real world and/or via the Internet (or a virtual world) to learn something connected to a shared endeavour, interest, or passion. The people have an affinity (attraction) to the shared endeavour, interest, or passion first and foremost and then to others because of their shared affinity ( P. 69 from "Language and Learning in The Digital Age "). And as much as you learn from things I share here with you I also get to learn a great deal from you. I receive tons of emails of edttech resources, app suggestions, related articles...etc and I must admit that hasn't it been for your help, the content of this blog would not have been as rich and diverse as it is now.
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Cherokee Prayer Blessing
.Cherokee Prayer Blessing
May the Warm Winds of Heaven
Blow softly upon your house.
May the Great Spirit
Bless all who enter there.
May your Mocassins
Make happy tracks
in many snows,
and may the Rainbow
Always touch your shoulder.
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Saturday, November 23, 2013
10 Memorable Dr. Seuss Quotes About His Work
10 Memorable Dr. Seuss Quotes About His Work
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Here are 10 things Theodor Seuss Geisel said about his life, his work, his inspiration, and bow ties.
1. On how a childless person could write so well for kids: "You make 'em, I amuse 'em."
2. On writing books kids actually want to read: "I have great pride in taking Dick and Jane out of most school libraries. That is my greatest satisfaction."
3. On where he gets his ideas: "I get all my ideas in Switzerland near the Forka Pass. There is a little town called Gletch, and two thousand feet up above Gletch there is a smaller hamlet called Über Gletch. I go there on the fourth of August every summer to get my cuckoo clock fixed. While the cuckoo is in the hospital, I wander around and talk to the people in the streets. They are very strange people, and I get my ideas from them." (He wasn't a fan of this question, apparently.)
4. On what would happen if he were invited to a dinner party with his characters: “I wouldn't show up."
5. On why he always wore bow ties: "You can't dribble on bow ties."
6. On the inspiration for Horton Hatches the Egg: "I was in my New York studio one day, sketching on transparent tracing paper, and I had the window open. The wind simply took a picture of an elephant that I'd drawn and put it on top of another sheet of paper that had a tree on it. All I had to do was to figure out what the elephant was doing in that tree."
7. On whether that trick ever worked again: "I've left my window open for 30 years since that, but nothing's happened."
8. On how long he expected The Cat in the Hat to take to write: "I figured I could knock it off in a week or so."
9. On how long it really took: "A year and a half."
10. On nonsense: “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living; it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities."
Sources: Dr. Seuss: American icon (Philip Nel); "Fifty Years of The Cat and the Hat" (NPR, 2007); Your Favorite Seuss; "Children's Author Dr. Seuss, 87, Dies" (Dallas Morning News, 1991); ?The Essential Guide to Children's Books and Their Creators (Anita Silvey).
Jason English is Editor-in-Chief, Digital for mental_floss. He runs the @mental_floss Twitter account and created the board game Split Decision. His three daughters (all under six) are only sometimes embarrassed by his antics.
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