February

**Feb 2**
An example with the table filled with reasons for not wanting to go to bed, or getting out of bed - Pre-listening Listening - reading a book with pictures very animated, kind of acting out. Pictures - the images are so clear that they help understand the story without the words, the images are giving a different kind of input

Preview of the book - show pictures and have one student explain what's on the picture to another that can't see the picture. Good practice for vocab that will be in the book

The story book - the story is told 3 times (read acting out) text illustration 2nd set of illustrations on the borders of the pages

Technology=books, pencils, white board, etc., not just machines

Images are representing the culture, so be careful with that

The Princess book - based on a picture of a famous painter

PP presentation about Rivera es Diego Rivera, le gusta de pintar, etc Come se llama? Que le gusta? Le gusta bailar? Le gusta comer? No, le gusta pintar!

"Fernando Botero es artista"- Como se llama?

Pictures are doing everything!!! So much cultural information and words!

BK - Art HistoryVELAsquez, Botero, Rivera (their lives as well=history) Grammar---le gusta, le gusta, es/está, se llama Vocab--art (pintar, artista, murales, pintura) in short 5 mins students will start producing

Principle of flow - to take you through the story, contrast in color or font for written text Repetition - everything in the story got repeated, pictures are also repeated, but were recontextualized (different painters painting, Indians painting)

Truth is consistent across contents. Principles we learned: Flow, contrast, repetition, line and color

Esqueletos Picture with text recordings for each students

Ideas on using text and making it comprehensible

COLORS MAGAZINE themed, shocking pictures related to the theme - can be used as writing prompts, speaking prompts calendars - can be used the same

Viral - spreads rapidly. We want our stuff be viral so students share it (like the Gospel).

Multiple representation every representation obscures some things and shows some things, so we need to show many representations of the representation

Challenging the way that people think about body image. He tried many projects before he realized what works As you try and discard various direction, you'll find that one finally feels right.
 * Dave Werner**

http://computingforsustainability.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/visualising-sustainability/
 * Visualizing** **sustainability**

You can't get everybody with one representation. Color coding is big Which ones worked the best for us?: - picture - simplified - lifelike

Multiple Representation - providing information by means of different means (photo, music, etc)

http://historicalthinking.wikispaces.com/Layering-UR culture - if you wanted to choose a famous figure from the target language and talk about him, this is a great way to present information (lay things out)

Educators' mashups Encourage cognitive flexibility through creativity
 * [|Karen's Mashups]
 * [|Over the Confluence of Giants] - Very smooth mashup made from 5-6 different songs
 * [|United States of Pop] - Mashup made from 25 of the most popular songs from 2007 by same DJ(Earworm)
 * [|Music Mash-up Charts] - Top 10 charts
 * [|Bluesfear Worm] - Ongoing graffiti-like online mashup created by artists (some parts of the mashup are more successful than others)
 * [|Grafik Dynamo] - RSS feeds generate random image/text mashups in comic strip style
 * [|One Semester of Spanish Love Song Mashup] - Mashup created from student videos that were imitations or video responses to [|this video].

2 types of mashups: aggregation - gathering different things (pulling them from somewhere) integration - combining those things together - this is when it gets more powerful (spanish children's drawings during the Spanish Civil War) (mashing children's perspective, government perspective (propaganda), etc.)

multiple voices poems and texts - examples of texts that are being layered (some cases text, some cases - stories)


 * Homework**



[|Comic strip]

6th sense - Jason's video clip - powerful takes something we all know - 6th sense movie represents something we are trying to learn (also mine) - could be also a personal connection - the more layers there are, there are more ways to relate to difficult and complex. Complex could be simple but have lots of layers

What's your name? I'm Olga

How old are you? I'm ten

Where are you from? I'm from Italy

Feb 14 story: characters, setting, plot interesting - special effects, surprise, mashing up 2 concepts: what would happen if instead of star war we have forces battling each other, what does it help us understand about star wars and classical music. The instruments in the music talk to each other.

emotional components, smth conceptual, reintroducing elements

Creativity
 * Feb 28**

Books on creativity: The dot CDC?