Operation TBD is today! On your mark. Get set. Drop! When you’re finishing dropping a book or two or twenty, reward yourself with an hour or two or twenty of browsing The […]
The Needlework Show
Bookmark Tips
Okay, I’m officially on a cardstock kick for finishing bookmarks. This is not the tip I planned for this week, but I’m going where my enthusiasm takes me. First it was ready-made […]
Creating Creatives, Part 4
Higher-Level Thinking by Linda Stanek Next up on Bloom’s Taxonomy is the first of the “higher-order thinking” tiers—Analysis. Here, students can finally appraise, compare, contrast—and here’s what’s really important—criticize and question their […]
Bookmarks for Practice, Part 2
Two weeks ago, I pitched the idea of using bookmarks as practice pieces, modern day samplers on which we can experiment and learn. Well, how’s it going? I finished my first one–in […]
Creating Creatives, Part 3
Moving Up by Linda Stanek The second tier on Bloom’s Taxonomy, that hierarchy of learning, is Understanding. Here, students begin to be able to classify, describe, discuss, explain, and identify the things […]
Bookmark Tips
It’s true: I have bookmarks on the brain. And not just during the Bookmark Challenge. One day, while strolling through a scrapbooking display (I am not a scrapbooker, just a stroller), I […]
