The Creativity Pool for the Creativity Notebooks
My students had a great suggestion to help each other find creative ideas to write about in their creativity notebooks. We opened a class dicussion forum in Haiku (the Learning Management System we use...
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The First Teacher Who Outsourced Her Job! Me!
It all started when Janet Abercrombie started reading and making comments on my adventures I share in my blog. She started leaving comments when my obsession on ‘creativity in writing’ and ‘integrating...
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Writing Posters: A Course Evaluation Tool?
What does writing mean to you? At the end of the first semester, we revisited this question. My students prepared posters to respond it and they presented their posters to each other. I’ve learnt a lot...
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The New Eden Project Part 1: Starting a new civilization
We’ve just started working on a new project with one of my colleagues, Fernando Olivencia. This was his idea and now we’re adapting and trying it in my classes. We have a rough plan but we also...
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Setting Writing Objectives with My Teaching Partner and Learning Buddies
I haven’t done a great job in getting my students to set learning objectives in the past but I haven’t given up yet because it helps me a lot when I learn something new. So I’m giving it another shot...
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Learning Buddies Share Learning Experiences on Weekly Writing Objectives
Today, in my first lesson with my class, learning buddies shared their learning experiences on their weekly objectives going over the answers of these questions. 1. What’s my SMART weekly objective in...
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Ms. Oguz Proudly Presents ‘Share Chair’!
I know it looks simple but this is the closest thing to a piece of modern art I have ever worked on. So I am proud of it and it is kind of special. Well done, Ms Oguz! I was inspired by some share...
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Project 0: Random Acts of Kindness
I am very excited about the final project of Unit 1. We explored written and oral narrative and the concept of ‘questions of identity’ a.k.a. ‘Who am I?’ throughout the unit. As the final project , we...
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A random act of kindness from a teacher to a student
Many times in my life, I found myself thinking ‘What got into me when I came up with this ‘brilliant’ idea?’ As a teacher, whenever I start a new project I do feel this way at some point during the...
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How do Random Acts of Kindness Look Like?
We have almost completed our project. If you’d like to read our reflections, visit our blogs!
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