Feb. 11, 2016 Today's Good Ideas

I'm writing down these activities before I forget them:

• In FYC, I had students DRAW the evidence that they will submit to me at the end of the ICO Project.
• Today was a workshop on finalizing the ICO Proposal Memo. Students had drafted on Tuesday and given that draft to me. In my reading of and commenting on the drafts, I noticed that many were not thinking in terms of concrete evidence for the successful completion of their project, so I came up with this idea:
• Visualize what your evidence (worth 50 points!) will look like on May 3
• Draw that visualization
• The best ones were detailed: 10 worksheets, 5 poems, 15 punctuation tests
• The not-best ones were metaphorical (a colorful bee to represent spelling) or process-oriented (stick figure going to the Writing Center)
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• In EXPRESS, after the usual "paragraph buster" and "color-coding hamburger" exercise, I had students text the folks who were not in class to say we missed them.
• Prentia - Abdul, Jacorey, Blong
• Katie - Abbey, Payton, Vanessa
• Lorena - Jen, Diedre, Ben

Students (Past)

Cleaning out a closet, I found a box of empty portfolio folders from Penn State students:


Marguerite L. Young, Michele Castellano, Dana Milnes, Debby Krawczak, Michael McGowan, Rick Kleban (1102 Kathryn St, Boalsburg PA 466-7212), Tom Talkowski, Lisa Genua, Eric Benkiser, Gina Biondo, Elizabeth Kruse, Kevin Olsavsky (English 20 Sec 95 Spring '82), Lori Bailey, Tom Parmelee, Lisa Dinda, Louis A. Beccari, John M. Matthers, Mary Rose Crist, Nora Maginnis, Jeff Gortaro, Susan Hranica (English 10 Sec 26 Ms. Daniels), Kevin Seibert, Jill Schollenberger, Bob Tan, Laurie Ahlgren, Brian Honeck (English 10 Ms. Daniels Pd. 4 261 Frear), Gayle Good, Susan Foltz, Grey Berrier, Marty Matthews, Beth Kosmack (English 20 Julie Daniels S. 30 Burrowes), Jim Chovanec, Nan Ellington Hollerorth (English 001 Section 3),