I know I'd be interested to read it. I'm also wondering about how to make my posts more engaging, enjoyable, useful for an audience (of 20 some odd subscribers so far. I'm getting some feedback mainly from my wife :)) about how to make my posts a little more engaging/ palatable for different types of scrolling/ readers, maybe to find more K-12 classroom teachers as well as memory nerds- hoping to cross pollinate those subcultures.
This is a cool approach. I work in an ESL school trying to achieve any kind of engagement. However I just realised my own kid's threadbare BoB team (Battle of the Books) needs to know 20 book titles with author names in a couple of weeks, preferably with some info attached. I can see the meme idea working here. The kids are from a bunch of different classes. And I don't work in the school. I need something to hook them in. They all live on Instagram.
Let me know if your kids uses it. Would love hear about it. I also am planning to put an example on here since. I've had some students do this with vocabulary and grammar terms and could be helpful for names and titles.
Ok, I spent a few hours with my daughter and a friend of hers yesterday, pulling screen shots of locations off a 360 video tour of the school (not allowed to use phones or ipad outside lessons) and then getting the kids to choose 20 and put them in a path. I've put them all into a Canva (first time I've used Canva) that all the kids will be able to join (about 10 kids, and yes I made a back up) and in a few minutes I'll go on a Zoom from my school to theirs as their team meets at lunch. The teacher in charge is part of the plan. The kids I worked with have each chosen a locus for a book and come up with some ideas for images.
Hopefully I can assign a kid to each book and a book to each locus today, but I can certainly get them all to create one page.
I like your idea about meme and GIFs, I'll just let them rip and see what they can do.
My daughter's friend had some good questions, quite universal. 'Ok, I understand the concept now, but won't it just be another problem to remember the images in the locations?' - I think that's how most people feel and that's where they stop.
Yep, I definitely hear that about the locations for memory palace. The way I've learned is doing the best you can to choose locations that are familiar already. Or, taking some time to familiarize the location before encoding or memeing into it. So excited they're trying it and look forward to hear any feedback about it! I'd also love to post some examples- will post my own here.
I know I said I'd write something up, but I wrote too much and now I'm worried it's really boring.
I know I'd be interested to read it. I'm also wondering about how to make my posts more engaging, enjoyable, useful for an audience (of 20 some odd subscribers so far. I'm getting some feedback mainly from my wife :)) about how to make my posts a little more engaging/ palatable for different types of scrolling/ readers, maybe to find more K-12 classroom teachers as well as memory nerds- hoping to cross pollinate those subcultures.
This is a cool approach. I work in an ESL school trying to achieve any kind of engagement. However I just realised my own kid's threadbare BoB team (Battle of the Books) needs to know 20 book titles with author names in a couple of weeks, preferably with some info attached. I can see the meme idea working here. The kids are from a bunch of different classes. And I don't work in the school. I need something to hook them in. They all live on Instagram.
Let me know if your kids uses it. Would love hear about it. I also am planning to put an example on here since. I've had some students do this with vocabulary and grammar terms and could be helpful for names and titles.
Ok, I spent a few hours with my daughter and a friend of hers yesterday, pulling screen shots of locations off a 360 video tour of the school (not allowed to use phones or ipad outside lessons) and then getting the kids to choose 20 and put them in a path. I've put them all into a Canva (first time I've used Canva) that all the kids will be able to join (about 10 kids, and yes I made a back up) and in a few minutes I'll go on a Zoom from my school to theirs as their team meets at lunch. The teacher in charge is part of the plan. The kids I worked with have each chosen a locus for a book and come up with some ideas for images.
Hopefully I can assign a kid to each book and a book to each locus today, but I can certainly get them all to create one page.
I like your idea about meme and GIFs, I'll just let them rip and see what they can do.
My daughter's friend had some good questions, quite universal. 'Ok, I understand the concept now, but won't it just be another problem to remember the images in the locations?' - I think that's how most people feel and that's where they stop.
Yep, I definitely hear that about the locations for memory palace. The way I've learned is doing the best you can to choose locations that are familiar already. Or, taking some time to familiarize the location before encoding or memeing into it. So excited they're trying it and look forward to hear any feedback about it! I'd also love to post some examples- will post my own here.
Love it!