Janet--you are way ahead of me. Brilliant.
Lenore


>>> Janet Isserlis <Janet_Isserlis at brown.edu> 07/18/07 11:19 AM >>>

And

Lenore's temporary blackboard markings can be photographed (digital,
'real')
and used as code, texts and illustrations for future work...



> From: "Taylor, Jackie" <jataylor at utk.edu>

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> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:39:04 -0400

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> Conversation: from Lenore, Re:Understanding by Design:where topurchase

it

> Subject: [ProfessionalDevelopment 1437]  from Lenore, Re:Understanding

by

> Design:where topurchase it

> 

> 

> 

> The following post is from Lenore Balliro, please read on...Jackie

> Taylor

> 

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Lenore Balliro [mailto:lenore_balliro at worlded.org]

> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 12:34 PM

> To: The Adult Literacy Professional Development Discussion List

> Subject: [ProfessionalDevelopment 1434] Re: from Lenore,

> Re:Understanding by Design:where topurchase it

> 

> David,

> I love the idea of the clothesline image..there are inexpensive

(dollar

> store) retractable clotheslines one can get and little clothespins.

> Also, if a program/classroom cannot use blackboard paint (I was

> stretching it there) how about a big piece of Masonite or plywood that

> has been painted with blackboard paint and leans sturdily against the

> wall? That doesn't need any permanent installation. For our younger

> learners still in their teens, the idea of doing graffiti and looking

at

> it as a kind of literacy practice and art practice may be an energetic

> way to get them to use popular culture as a way into literacy.

Anything

> offensive to subsequent classes--just wipe it off with a damp cloth!

> Also, the web/weaving idea could be done on a moveable piece of wood

as

> well. 

> 

>>>> "David J. Rosen" <djrosen at comcast.net> 7/17/2007 11:56 AM >>>

> Lenore and other PD Colleagues,

> 

> Great ideas, Lenore.  "Strung across the room" sparked this thought

for

> teachers who aren't allowed to put things on the walls of their

> classroom.  Perhaps a teacher could carry the (rolled up) flip chart

> sheets or posters s/he or the students had made, taped to a

clothesline,

> wire, or heavy duty string that could be put up by students at the

> beginning of each class and folded up by them at the end of the class.

> Maybe this "portable gallery" could even be stored someplace in the

room

> or building.

> 

> The "big Idea/Core Tasks" underpinning this might include the skills

> that you mentioned: "speculation", "imagination", "prediction", or

> "inquiry"  and the classroom environment, as well as specific lessons,

> might be designed to provide opportunities to learn (and

> assess) these skills.

> 

> David J. Rosen

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