I also keep in mind with surveys of high school students, that it's the prime age for sarcasm to authority figures, and filling out bogus anonymous answers to boring surveys is kind of fun....
Amen. An imaginary person won the election for student body president at my high school. I was one of the people who voted for him, knowing he was imaginary.
Not just the reading but the visual medium will help develop his practical communication skills and awareness of non-verbal cues.
I recently researched this (well, comics + literacy) for a school paper/project. The processing of visual information is definitely a kind of literacy. Filling in the blanks between one panel and the next, knowing how to follow the sequence of panels on a page, these are important skills. (Skills which, despite years of reading comics, I'm still developing.) People act like it's news that comics are good for kids but educators have been looking into it for years.
Waiting for the plumber and I forgot some paperwork I wanted to bring home to work on. Feh.
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The processing of visual information is definitely a kind of literacy. Filling in the blanks between one panel and the next, knowing how to follow the sequence of panels on a page, these are important skills.
Owen's lacking some important pragmatic language skills and the comics seem to really help that.
Oh, great.
Vending fail sucks.
The pumpkin cheesecake turned out well. I really do wish more buffistas were here to finish it off. DH doesn't really care for cheesecake. I had to practice with this one for a bakesale on Wednesday.
Owen's lacking some important pragmatic language skills and the comics seem to really help that.
I think they're especially good for reading facial expressions. You can really analyze the faces piece by piece - which is something you can't do with, say, movies or watching people live, since their faces move so quickly.
DH doesn't really care for cheesecake.
Heathen.
I used to make cheesecakes all the time and just take them into work--back when I was all familial with my coworkers. Which isn't the same as being family with my coworkers. They didn't get cheesecake. It's been forever since I've made one. I used to be a monster. Had multiple recipes of my own...those were the wild and crazy days.
New guy today. Came in with his own laptop. Which makes the fourth new guy I've noticed come in with his own laptop. It's never occurred to me to bring my personal laptop into the office on my first day (or, like, ever). My assumption would be that I wouldn't be able to network it (even if it weren't a Mac--but two of the new guys brought Macs in) and that they would get me a computer in decent time. Which they did. Odd. I brought a folio/binder/notebook thingy, which no one else seems to carry.
Ooh, I need to make a pumpkin (or other!) cheesecake, now that I have a springform pan! I wonder if it would be OK for my grandmother, with her many and varied food restrictions...
I need to get the bottom of my springform pan from my old roommate! Cheesecake FTW.
never made a cheesecake. It is on my 101 list. Maybe next weekend.
