I'm Away!

Hey Everyone, I am unexpectedly away this afternoon.  Please use today's class to edit and compile your photos from yesterday's scavenger hunt.  Use an app such as Pic Stitch to combine your visuals- and then post them on your blog.  Remember that underneath each of your visuals should be a key that discusses which themes are being photographed.  If you get that done and you have time to spare, scroll down to the next post, read it, and get a head start writing your "Six Word Memoirs".   I am also away tomorrow- don't...

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First Writing Project: Six Word Memoirs

#mbedchatblog #mbedu #engchat #sixwordmemoirs 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://flic.kr/s/aHsjymZhgf 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,...

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Photo Scavenger Hunt

#mbedchatblog #mbedu #engchat  Use your device to capture photos that creatively and insightful represent the following topics or themes. Once you have taken all of the photos, use the app Pic Stitch (or another similar app) to combine and frame the photos. Upload the finished product to your blog, and add detailed descriptions that explain the themes present in the various photos/frames.  Love Hate Friendship Symbolism Black...

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Reading Assignment #3

This week, I would like you to share the text connections you found while reading during Friday's class.  Share any two text connections that you found.  This week we are not using "Twitter" format, and as such you should be explaining your connections in a paragraph length response. Post your text connections in the comments section below- and be sure to take a moment to respond to another student's connection. Here are some example...

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Blogging Fieldtrip

#mbedchatblog #mbedu #engchat Well ladies and gentlemen, you've all been working hard to establish your own little piece of the blogosphere. In today's class we will be taking a cyber field trip. First stop, http://kidblog.org/MsBettess/ where we will be meeting with our new friends in Thompson! We'll be spending time with these lovely fellows bloggers at several points throughout the semester- starting next week when we appear as...

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Digital Quickwrite- Which Door?

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This Week's Reading Strategy- Text Connections

#mbedchatblog #mbedu #engchat #readingstrategies Research shows that effective readers all possess similar characteristics of “reading greatness”. Two such characteristics are: They activate their background--they reflect on what they know before reading and  . . . They connect that knowledge to the during and after stages of their reading experience. Below are three different types of connections: Text to Self                              (t-s) Connect...

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Reading Assignment #2- Reading Tweets

#engchat #mbedu #readingtweet This week's Reading Tweet is slightly different from last week.  Once again you will be composing 5 tweets about your reading on Friday, but this week you must include at least three of the following hashtags in your tweets, in a meaningful way: #dystopian #bigidea #favquote #johngreen #writingstyle #conflict #foreshadowing #timetravel #scifi #romance #title #lifelesson #bookormovie Your first tweet should once again introduce your book and current page of reading: Where'd U Go Bernadette (123) My #favquote...

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Personal Additions

#mbedchatblog #mbedu #engchat  Your blog 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 list of confession ·A...

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Share Your New Blog Address

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Reading Assignment #1- Reading Tweets

#mbedchatblog #mbedu #engchat #readingtweets  Reading Reflection:  Today, you will using the format of Twitter to compose "Tweets" about the post it notes you took while reading on Friday. Your reading tweets will contain 140 characters or less - including spaces and punctuation. In total you will create 5 "tweets: - An intro tweet that gives the title of the book, the page that you are currently on, and your initial reaction to the book: The Girl i/t Steel Corset (203) my 1rst steampunk book....

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Doodling Your Digital Footprint

#mbedchatblog #mbedu #engchat    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...

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Reading Strategy- Questions, Comments, Predictions

#mbedchatblog #mbedu #engchat  Yesterday, I introduced you to our first metacognitive reading strategy- questions, comments and predictions.  Questions (?) ·      While you are reading you may find yourself asking questions.  These questions might be about plot or character or any other element in the novel. Comments ·      As a reader you respond to what...

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Welcome Semester Two Students!

#mbedchatblog #mbedu #engchat    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...

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