Day 6 Scaffolding, TBL and Tech tools (dipity)....

Introspective sharing.... Got here extra early with cheese, JUST before the rain (winning!) charging up my bike and ready to learn. Found out I have to relocate the bike elsewhere, so got a new location in mind to use the parking permit from the institute. Very informative sessions today thus far. The scratch sheets from the TBL are nice but I am not a fan of materials like these I wonder if the scratch offs can be digitized? Probably so... dipity is a good polling site along with polleverywhere.com. Added a few basics to my weebly page in accordance with the instructor and continued working on Ms. Latham's art inspired project. Yesterday I had to choose between to of my designs (Suspect or 13 Ghosts). Chose Suspect and plan to work on that for the duration. Will attach a photo of the design here. I'll make it abstract but hope to capture the essence of the design with my project by the end of the institute. Enrolled in summer school also and have to jump on those classes today as well... BUSY BUSY BUSY!!! No rest for the weary but these are the sacrifices we make for a brighter tomorrow, right? Two things I found most helpful today: 1. dipity.com and the "Prove It" method I shared with the class today, both I can use with my classes for ongoing assignments or a few short assignments. Prove it is a literacy strategy that gets to the core of an article and affords the student an opportunity to prove an essential statement made by the instructor based on the reading. I'm incorporated a bubble gram I created today that was used by our instructor to illustrate how the "Prove It" method works. I can see myself using it when applying it to both primary and secondary reading assignments... As Ice Cube said, "Today was a good day..."