Although my group’s poster (which for the most part was bare and for totally legitimate reasons) was not discussed in class on Friday, there was definitely some take away that occurred from doing the activity and analyzing the form(s) we were asked to look at.

Interestingly enough, what I understood from the activity examples that could very well be applied to a real-life classroom setting a/o situation is that even if there appears to be one method of doing an activity, there is in fact a multiplicity of ways to implicate said activity in such a way that engages and counters how students may understand a task. For example, the RoundRobin (or was it RobinRound? no matter) activity option could be addressed and used in a variety of ways using virtually any topic that comes to mind.When my group members and I were comparing the same activity in our forms, they all had very different uses. On the one hand, it could be used to analyze poetry, on the other hand it could be used to help student’s think critically about themselves with regards to the context of a lesson, make real life comparisons, and discuss their answers with other group members a/o with the whole class.

As this semester goes on, I have yet to be disappointed with any of the lessons and different teaching tactics/strategies presented. Is anyone else equally as amazed as I am at how versatile and flexible the lessons are yet how engrossing the process of learning is? I find it all very clever and ingenious in some instances.

-Danna