Friday, February 20, 2009

Today's Workshop

I found today's workshop activites very useful. I liked the poetry assignment very much, and I think my group found real value in searching for images that were representative of our interpretation of the poem. The assignment allowed us to be creative, and I enjoyed that.
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  1. Christy PatriarcaFebruary 20, 2009 at 9:02 AM

    I thought that the exercise that we completed in small groups today was both thought-provoking and exciting! Our group spent a lot of time researching items from the poem we needed more background knowledge on. We then used this information and brainstormed our interpretations of what we thought the author was telling us. Taking the next step to find images that connect to our interprations required us to really use our creativity and critical thinking skills! :)
    The ideas shared when previewing the Power Points from the previous workshop gave me a lot of new ideas for implementing digital composition in my own classes. I'm looking forward to the next session to hear everyone's ideas for technology lesson plans.

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  2. JayneFebruary 22, 2009 at 9:32 AM

    I guess that is why even though I get so darned frustrated by technology, I still want to use it and learn more. It challenges and stimulates my creativity in ways that I could never have imagined before I took this workshop.

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  3. MerylFebruary 26, 2009 at 6:38 AM

    I absolutely loved the poetry project! It was fun, creative, energizing, and though it was a poem with which I am very familiar, thinking about how to discuss it visually stimulated good thinking. It was fantastic to go "shopping for images" in both a literal and figurative sense!

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  4. JoannaFebruary 26, 2009 at 10:41 AM

    I think that this project did exactly what people needed here at Lakeland: it challenged us to consider the possibilities for digital composition projects; ask each other how we might engage in such a project; reflect on how much we are each able to actually do on our own and, consequently, ask our students to do; and dream about how we might compose our own assignments. I can see how a project like this could take up quite a few weeks of discussion about technology, poetry, analysis, and rhetorical purpose.

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