Sunday, November 27, 2016

Week 4 - While Future English Teachers have been distracted by addictive internet fun (seizure warning), something way more sinister has been percolating....

I've just spent half an hour making graffiti art of me and my husband



followed by a scary animation of said husband where I learned (the scary way) that you must undo an effect before you overlay more effects lest you end you end up with something like this:



(you were warned).
[Effects used, in case you want to replicate this: hearts, zoom, horror]

And all this in the name of higher education! Whooop! Except that I left myself a little short on blogging time.

I love the links provided this week - it will be great to sprinkle my classes with comics, graphics and other visual learning tools. In my Advanced Proficiency class I picked up some (less seizure-inducing) highly useful resources as well - namely the "Essential Lexical Tools" referenced in this blog: http://leoxicon.blogspot.co.il/. He linked to some sites that help you find common expressions if you give some of the core words of the expression - although I didn't have much luck plugging in "You can lead a horse to water..." Hmmm.  I did have some fun seeing if any of the sites could answer that question burning in everyone's subconscious......



Wait for it........