Notes to self for next workshop:
- Create & bring sample Story Maps pre-filled.
- Some of those should be for well-known books & movies.
- Start workshops with questions about what they learned last time.
- Class voting for Story Map contents.
- Make sure each student has one map item per exercise.
- Add ‘name’ fields to materials.
- The paper thing, re: last post.
- Be mindful of my apparent obsession with lists.
Okay, good, now on to the commentary.
- 2 days down.
- 2 students lost to homework’s quick sands.
- 7 prolific students.
- 4 more brainstorms.
- 8 tales well-underway.
- 9 obsessions with the word ‘galumphing’.
- 1 new word learned.
Did you know that ‘galumphing’, while used as a descriptor for the locomotion of earless seals, was coined in 1872 by Roald Dahl in Jabberwocky? I learned that from our smartypants students. And man, I want to coin a term! Or at least a phrase. Which is easier? I don’t know.
To be safe: both:
Brainium: A combined reference to both brain and mind; a conjunction of ‘brain’ and ‘crainium’.
Wait, that’s just a conjunction. That’s not special. Any gallumph could do that. Bah.
Thrice the cumber: a phrase meaning ‘third time’s the charm’.
First known use: “Bandy gone swimmin’ in a tussin drift backlick, thrice the cumber,” in Crab by Banjo Drill & Otis Baltrics MD, 2009.
Rise, ye, like balloons on winds not borne of the butt of foul jokes.
Uh, where was I? Oh yes, the workshop.
Behold, our completed class Story Map!
And behold, yonder rough drafts begat from said Story Map’s influence on the brainium, courtesy of myself and Eric Myers. Don’t expect to read the handwriting though.
Next week, thrice the cumber.
