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 […]
Bookmarks for Practice, Part 2
Teaching Tool for Stitchers
As most of you know, Outreach is an important branch of the Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy program. In addition to collecting bookmarks from stitchers during the Bookmark Challenge, we aim […]
Bookmark Tips
Last week we talked about using card stock tags as backs and bologna for bookmarks. It’s also possible to stitch directly on cards; in fact, Kreinik offers some Tokens & Trifles stitching […]
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 […]
Creating Creatives, Part 2
Bloom’s Taxonomy by Linda Stanek In the 1950s, educator and psychologist, Benjamin Bloom, created a triangular chart of cognitive thinking/learning behaviors, moving from the most common and basic, at the bottom of […]
