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In my last post I shared my opinions on the importance of teaching our students how to tell stories. The exciting part of that task is there are TONS of fun (translation = engaging) tools available to help with these lessons!!
And because the great www is open to anyone, there are also TONS of tutorials on how to use these resources and get you started. All you need to know is how to type in the word "tutorial" after whatever program you're trying to learn. T-u-t-o-r-i-a-l ....maybe that should be a required spelling word from now on. There are numerous tools out there for user friendly creation of animation but DoInk (Green Screen & Animation) is a current fav. Want to try it today?
When I was in school we were taught that essays needed to have 5 paragraphs...an introduction, a conclusion and three supporting paragraphs. As the world wide web has opened it's doors to welcome anyone old enough to peck a few keys on a keyboard, I think the needs & parameters around writing has changed. And...as someone who purposefully breaks grammar & sentence structure rules quite often, I love it.
Were you still able to follow my train of thought? I broke a bunch of rules my high school english teacher worked really hard to teach me. Or...am I able to creatively play with sentence structure & break some rules because I know the "proper" way sentences are supposed to be structured? Does creativity evolve only after we understand the foundational patterns (in math, in writing, in art, etc) or can we be creative without any regard to organic or established patterns in our world? Sometimes I think we need to recognize patterns that exist in order to see ways to break them. Sometimes I think those patterns are getting in our way! Either way, I'm thankful that my high school english teacher taught me the most boring way ever to write so I could look for all the ways to break the rules later when I was given "permission." Storytelling is an art and although I'm conscious of the principles shared in these two books every time I propose ideas now, I'm FAR from practicing them. Is storytelling something we are consciously teaching our students? Will they be able to make their ideas "contagious" or "make their ideas stick" with our world? What do you think? Which comes first...establishing the norm then allowing for creativity to expand it OR allowing creativity to establish a new norm? |
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