It's been almost two decades since the first Magnetic Poetry sets began cluttering up dorm-room fridges, allowing would-be poets and lyricists to hone their craft from the convenience of their kitchenettes.
Yet any longtime aficionado of refrigerator verse has likely run up against a distressing problem:
Welcome to my wiki! Over the last few months, my students and fellow contributors have been creating some pretty interesting resources. Some are fairly developed. Others are still just kernals of an idea that need some fleshing out. Feel free to take a look around and add your ideas to this wiki. Please drop me an e-mail with your comments or suggestions at budtheteacher@gmail.com. This is currently an open wiki. Add documents; make changes; experiment. Thanks!
I've made them because sometimes I need to make a custom image to illustrate a specific idea when I'm writing about a topic. During this process, I've found some simple tools that I've used to create an illustration with a specific scene, add characters and props, and even write captions for characters. Here's one I made trying to explain an idea about formative assessment:
I love this mini-lecture from Ira Glass. He discusses how we artists are often vexed by the gap between the vision we have in our heads and the disappointment we sometimes feel in the final result of our efforts. And he has one simple solution to closing that gap.
Here is a nice story about a student who created an online site for posting compliments for other students online. Can bits of this be used with our blogging?