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Crot Essay Part 3 – 3-Panel Comic Activity
After the X-page activity, we discuss the first eleven pages of Scott McCloud’s chapter 1, “Writing With Pictures” from Making Comics. This chapter introduces students to McCloud’s five Choices of Clarity: choice of moment, choice of frame, choice of image, … Continue reading
Crot Essay Part 2
For homework for the second day, students need to finish their Childhood Learning Moments Timeline. I start my class slides with a Winston Weathers’ 1984 definition: “The crot is an obsolete word meaning a “bit’ or ‘fragment, ‘ the crot may … Continue reading
Teaching All Learning Types Through The Crot Essay Assignment
I gave a presentation at the Southern Regional Composition Conference in May titled “20th Century Crot Esayy Meets 21st Century Multimodality.” I wanted to write an article about this assignment, so I’m making myself write this post as the first … Continue reading
It’s Nice To Have Company!
I finished everything on my to-do list. It amazes me how motivated I get when company are coming to visit. I powerwashed, painted, cleaned, sewed, gardened, and mowed weeks before the visit. Then last Friday, my oldest son, Mike, and … Continue reading
Everything Costs $$, Even My Blog!
I used to write in my WordPress blog monthly sometimes weekly, but then I got busy teaching and just didn’t. I’ve longed to get back to blogging, so this morning I spent over an hour figuring out how to post … Continue reading
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100 Drawings in 100 Days Challenge
Yes, I’ve challenged myself to not only writing in this blog once a week, but also to do one drawing every day for one hundred days in a row. I think I’m out of my fricking mind, oh well, we … Continue reading
Cunniforms to Blinking Cursors 