Drawing Manga Realistically!

Many students have taken fancy to Japanese anime and manga. Therefore, stimulate their interest with these easy-to-follow tutorials and get them drawing amazing and realistic manga immediately.

Be sure to praise them, encourage them and display their initial tries readily. Your belief in them will most certainly motivate them to start on the second. third, fourth....

Blogging made EZ...

Alright, it's term 4 in our school and we'll be embarking on a blogging project as part of our ICT curriculum. The blog is meant as a e-portfolio to capture the learning that has taken place over the last 3 terms. Students will be taught how to create new posts, add the images they have created and upload the video they had produced in term 3.

It is hoped that this skill learnt will help some of our students gain another wonderful platform on which they could showcase their achievements and socialise responsibly. As we will be using wordpress blogging script, the following videos are meant to introduce ideas that you can work with your students as you conduct a lesson on blogging.


This is a very comprehensive video that can be shown to your students to take them through blogging.


This video is for more advance learners and for teachers who would like to explore hosting a blog of your own.

And if you are preferring to use Blogger to do your blogging, check out the following video:


Adding a video in Blogger:


And the magic of adding Google gadgets in Blogger:



Enjoy!

Bobby McFerrin playing the audience like an instrument

WOW!

Try this during one of your school's assemblies for a change...

Memorising using the LINK method (BBC)

You've got the Number-Rhyme technique in my previous post. Did it work for you? Usually, it really helps for lists of ten. If you've read Buzan's books on memory, you'll know how you can expand the list to 30 or 40 items. For me, I never got past twenty. Never needed to, anyway.

Well, here's Andi Bell explaining the "link method". Some memory practitioners may call it the Roman Room method. Either way, with practice, you can easily manage 100 items in time to come. Learning this may take less time than the Number-Rhyme as you are already familiar to your surroundings.

Hint: If you've got 5 rooms in your house, intentionally cycle through 10 items in every room. That will easily give you an initial capacity of 50. =P

The Number-Rhyme mnemonics system

Alright, this is a follow up to Tony Buzan's mind mapping.

I have personally used this Number-Rhyme system for memorising lists and up to today, some of the lists remained in my permanent memory. When I took the Powerboat Driving License more than 5 years back, we were required to memorise a list of 10 compulsory items.

The list is still there. In my head.

Try it with your kids and make them realise that they can learn to make use of their heads more effectively!