Finishing Up Six Word Memoirs

It seems we are coming to the end of our work with "6 Word Memoirs", and that means that we need to finish polishing and editing, and publish them for the world to see! Exciting right? Ok here's what you need to know: (1) You must select 6 of your "Six Word Memoirs" for publishing. (2) E-mail each of your 6 "Six Word Memoirs" to the class Flickr account: not48effect@photos.flickr.com  (3) Each of these 6 "Six Word Memoirs" must be...

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Editing Pictures and Adding Text

The best free site I have found  (so far) for editing pictures and adding text to them is www.picmonkey.com . When editing your photos please make sure: - The font colour and size you select is easy to read against the background of the image - You add a photo credit/created by credit in the bottom right hand corner of your image - Just to be safe, you e-mail your final edited picture to yourself and you save them on your...

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Weekly Reading and Writing Reflection #3

Reading Reflection (250 words): Use your post it notes to help you create a posting where you discuss your reading progress. - Your reflection should be in full sentences/paragraphs, and focus on your questions, comments, predictions and text connections. - Please don't retell the plot of your novel, instead react to it. - Please pay special attention to your proofreading. I would suggest you type your reflection in a Word document, use it to edit, and then cut and copy it into your blog posting. Next? Writing Reflection (200 words): Reflect...

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Six Word Memoirs

The first writing style we will be focussing on is a microform called six word memoirs. For those of you who haven't heard of this writing phenomenon, here's a short video to explain: http://youtu.be/mBnP0DoGjRI    http://youtu.be/jEkAHATRuRU Your writing assignment:   -Write 8 different six word memoirs. One for each of the eight categories: love, hate, growing up, my past, my future, me, family, and confession. - Select your best SIX and create visuals (photos, drawings/doodles, collages) to accompany...

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Personal Additions

Your blog and  WRN should be an extension of you and reflect your personality in a professional manner.  The best way to accomplish is through personal additions! Personal additions are your chance to include items you find inspiring, interesting, and/or worth commenting on into your blog and WRN. Items that could be considered personal additions include (but are not limited to): ·      Poems/Song Lyrics ·      A...

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Updating Your Blog

Now that we've made blogs, it's time we start filling them with content!  (1)The first thing we posted was an introductory post or our rambling autobiography. (2)Next type and post your Reading Reflection #2: - Please pay special attention to your proofreading. I would suggest you type your reflection in a Word document, use it to edit, and then cut and copy it into your blog posting. - Remember to start your post with: Reading Reflection...

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Reading Reflection #2

It's that time of the week again!  Reading Reflection (350 words): Use your post it notes to help you create a posting where you discuss your reading progress. - Your reflection should be in full sentences/paragraphs, and focus on your questions, comments, predictions and text connections. - Please don't retell the plot of your novel, instead react to it. - Dont' Forget to share your questions, comments, predictions and text connectio...

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Digital Footprint Doodle

Although this is a Creative Writing class, sometimes I think of it as a Creative Ways of Writing class. It is with that in mind that I introduce Sunni Brown and her passion for doodling. In today's class what we are going to think and doodle about is the concept of our digital footprint. According to Wikipedia a digital footprint is; A trail left by an entity's interactions in a digital environment; including their usage of TV, mobile phone, Internet and world wide web, mobile web and other devices and sensors. Digital footprints provide...

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Welcome to Creative (Ways of) Writing!

Hello and welcome to Cre8tive Havoc, the "mother blog" for our class's adventure into blogging! This will be a common space for all students taking Creative Writing this year, so don't be suprised if you see some new names and faces here. This mother blog will be a place where various assignments and resources will be posted. My hope is that you will be checking is here on a regular basis while also maintaining your own blog, and visiting the blogs...

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Reading Reflection #1

Welcome to your First (of many) Reading Reflections! For the sake of organising your future blogs, I just want to  discuss some formatting details for your weekly Reading Reflection (350 words). Please title your assignment with "Reading Reflection #___" and then use the first three lines  to give info about the name of the book, author, and pages you've read this week in class. So for example your Reading Reflection assignment should look something like this: Reading Reflection #1 Book: Lone Wolf Author: Jodi...

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