Wakelet - The best way to share and collect content How a Scene List Can Change Your Novel-Writing Life By the end of this post you will have a nagging urge to use an excel spreadsheet. Don’t make that face—I know you’re a writer and not a data analyst. Or if you are a data analyst—I get that you’re on this blog to get away from your day job. But guess what? At the suggestion of Randy Ingermason—the creator of the Snowflake Method—I listed all of the scenes in my novel in a nice little Google spreadsheet. It changed my novel-writing life, and doing the same will change yours too. Creating a scene list changed my novel-writing life, and doing the same will change yours too. Scene Lists Help You Plan I tried to write a novel once before without planning in advance. I used the Snowflake Method, which consists of several steps to designing a novel that we can discuss at a later date. Today we’re focusing on a particular step: the creation of a scene list. What is a scene list? It’s literally a list of the scenes in your novel in an excel spreadsheet. Column 1: POV. 1. 2. 3. Scene Lists Help You Edit
Teachers: This Is What I Need From You Teachers: This Is What I Need From You by Jennifer Rita Nichols As educators, we have a huge responsibility towards each child entrusted to us. It is our duty to try our best to meet the needs of the students in our classroom and to help them become productive members of our communities. Sometimes we need to step out of our ‘teacher shoes’ and step into the shoes of a student to help us better understand them, since they are not always very adept at verbalizing their thoughts. 1. I will notice if you always call on someone else more, praise them more, smile at them more, or talk to them more. Even if I don’t always understand my academics very well, how you make me feel can be the difference it takes for me to stay in school and keep trying. 2. Please show an interest in the things that I share with you. 3. I might not listen all the time or do what I should, but I want to live a happy life. 4. 5. I will ask you about the rules and why we need to follow them. Sometimes I’ll fail. 6. 7.
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Ten things I did in 2016 that have significantly enhanced my teaching The year just gone was one of the best I have ever had in terms of professional development as a teacher, researcher, writer and CPD provider. In this blog I share ten things that I have tried out in 2016 that, in my view, have significantly enhanced teaching and learning in my lessons. 1.Doubled the exposure to receptive processing and delayed production One major change to my teaching has involved massively increasing my students’ exposure to comprehensible input before engaging them in production. In order to enable my students to learn from the aural and written input provided, as illustrated in the texts in figure 1, I make sure it contains lots of patterned repetitions, cognates and familiar language and contextual clues which facilitate inference (so that 95 % would be accessible without resorting to guessing or dictionaries). Figure 1 – narrow reading texts including comprehensible input with lots of patterned repetitions and cognates Figure 2. 3.Inductive Grammar teaching 4. 4.1.
Exámenes cooperativos, ¿alternativa a las pruebas clásicas? Tradicionalmente, cuando los alumnos de una clase tienen que hacer un examen el profesor les separa de manera individual, reparte (o dicta) las preguntas del control y señala que el tiempo para completarlo empieza a la orden de ya. ¿Qué pasaría si en vez de seguir esta metodología los estudiantes lo resolvieran en pequeños grupos de trabajo? Es la base de los exámenes cooperativos. Te contamos en qué consisten y cómo los aplican algunos docentes en sus aulas. ¿Qué son los exámenes cooperativos? Dentro de las llamadas metodologías activas, el trabajo cooperativo proporciona al alumnado una amplia lista de ventajas que favorecen su inclusión, el desarrollo de habilidades sociales, responsabilidad, ayuda mutua, trabajo en equipo… Así, y dentro de este contexto, hemos tenido la oportunidad de compartir experiencias como ‘Este es mi barrio’, ‘Construyendo entornos cooperativos inclusivos’ o ‘Imagínate’. ¿Cómo son los exámenes cooperativos? Más allá de la nota numérica
WRITING TOOLS Character Pyramid Tool (PDF) Visualize your character’s FLAWS & associated behaviors (for a deeper understanding of this tool, please reference The Negative Trait Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Character Flaws) Character Target Tool (PDF) Organize and group your character’s POSITIVE ATTRIBUTES by category: moral, achievement, interactive or identity (for a greater understanding of this tool, please reference The Positive Trait Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Character Attributes) Character Profile Questionnaire (PDF) Not your average character questionnaire! Reverse Backstory Tool (PDF) Work backwards to find your character’s wound, needs & lie (for a deeper understanding of this tool, please reference The Negative Trait Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Character Flaws) Weak Verb Converter Tool (PDF) Transform all those generic, boring verbs into power verbs Scene Revision/Critique Tool Level 1 & Level 2 (PDF) A ‘light’ and ‘in-depth’ revision checklist for creating compelling characters and scenes
10 Ways Teacher Planning Should Adjust To The Google Generation 10 Ways Teacher Planning Should Adjust To The Google Generation by Terry Heick For the Google Generation, information isn’t scarce, and knowing has the illusion of only being a search away. I’ve written before about how Google impacts the way students think. Curriculum maps are helpful little documents that standardize learning. The problem is, now more than ever, critical knowledge is changing. In the presence of Google, predictive search, digital communities, social media, Quora, adaptive apps, and other technology, information is less scarce than it has ever been in human history. There is a subreddit for transhumanism. That’s pretty incredible. There’s also one for education, science, the future, the past, self-directed learning, teaching, books, technology, and almost any other topic you can think of. The age of knowing is slowing giving way to an age of data navigation, and what students need help with should be adjusted accordingly–even if in ways other than the ideas below. 1. 2.
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