Education, Stading Style

This site is home base for the remarkably compelling “Shift Happens” videos.

This is the most recent, yet it is still a year old.  The world is not standing still…I feel incredibly out of date. (Plus it makes me want a new phone.)

You all were *so* engaged with the Lotus Diagram for planning fund raising activities. How can we do more things like this and still get better at writing?   Because let’s face it…you get better at writing by…wait for it…writing. Yet your interests are in the planning of things.  What ideas do you have so we can plan and write at the same time?

Read about it here.

Other reviews:

Boston Globe

San Francisco Chronicle

Check out this site … you put in a book you liked and it gives you a bunch of recommendations for other books. Try it out!

A Lotus Diagram is a tool to focus one’s thinking on the parts of a whole, or to categorize information. It can be a useful tool to plan your writing!

Here are some links.

Power Point Overview

Blank Large Lotus Diagram

Secondary Examples

Elementary Examples

Same name, but not related…try this in your free time.

Subject/Predicate

Nouns

Verbs

Waiting for “Superman”

It and “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 1” are my “must see” for the Fall.

You’ve heard of a “Question of the Day” but have you considered an “Answer of the Day?”  (I am totally stealing this idea from Miss Taylor because it is so very cool.)  Can you come up with a question to which the following would be the answer?  I have specific question in mind, can you guess it?  And no boring questions like, “What is the first letter of the name ‘Xeres’?” or “What is the 24th letter of the alphabet?” 

Yes, this has a “Trivial Pursuit” quality to it…do you really need to know this information?  Probably not.  But thinking about quality questioning will make you a better reader…writer…thinker.  So here you go:

Answer:  The letter X

(Post your questions in the comments.)