Tuesday, February 28, 2012

How do you keep your page?

I cannot stand it when people fold the page to keep where they're up to.

I cannot stand it when my bookmark falls out (or gets pulled out by my cat).

I love my book thong, which is a pretty ribbon that hangs out each end and can stay in my book while I read it. I do have to rearrange it though, and do tend to lose it sometimes. Also, said cat attacks it sometimes if it's moving.

These new Albatros book marks look pretty clever. You don't have to take them out at all the whole time you're reading the book. I wonder if they would actually be as easy to use as they look to be in the video: http://www.indiegogo.com/Albatros-bookmarks-1 

How do you keep your page?

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Vokis

My students this term are writing a book each. We are focusing on the elements of a good story, and going through a step by step process to plan our story before we start writing. Last week and this week we are looking at characters in depth, and students are creating the characters they would like to include in their story using Voki. The Voki that I created to test out the process, and to communicate to my students along the way, is below: