Poetry Fishbowl Open!
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ysabetwordsmithThe Poetry Fishbowl is now CLOSED. Thank you for your time and attention. Keep an eye on this post, as I'm still writing.
Starting now, the Poetry Fishbowl is open! Today's theme is "schooling vs. education." I will be checking this page periodically throughout the day. When people make suggestions, I'll pick some and weave them together into a poem ... and then another ... and so on. I'm hoping to get a lot of ideas and a lot of poems.
Click to read the linkback poem "Mipnei Tikkun Ha'olam" (15 verses, Clay of Life).
What Is a Poetry Fishbowl?
Writing is usually considered a solitary pursuit. One exception to this is a fascinating exercise called a "fishbowl." This has various forms, but all of them basically involve some kind of writing in public, usually with interaction between author and audience. A famous example is Harlan Ellison's series of "stories under glass" in which he sits in a bookstore window and writes a new story based on an idea that someone gives him. Writing classes sometimes include a version where students watch each other write, often with students calling out suggestions which are chalked up on the blackboard for those writing to use as inspiration.
In this online version of a Poetry Fishbowl, I begin by setting a theme; today's theme is "schooling vs. education." I invite people to suggest characters, settings, and other things relating to that theme. Then I use those prompts as inspiration for writing poems.
Cyberfunded Creativity
I'm practicing cyberfunded creativity. If you enjoy what I'm doing and want to see more of it, please feed the Bard. The following options are currently available:
1) Sponsor the Fishbowl -- Here is a PayPal button for donations. There is no specific requirement, but $1 is the minimum recommended size for PayPal transactions since they take a cut from every one. You can also donate via check or money order sent by postal mail. If you make a donation and tell me about it, I promise to use one of your prompts. Anonymous donations are perfectly welcome, just won't get that perk. General donations will be tallied, and at the end of the fishbowl I’ll post a list of eligible poems based on the total funding; then the audience can vote on which they want to see posted.
2) Swim, Fishie, Swim! -- A feature in conjunction with fishbowl sponsorship is this progress meter showing the amount donated. There are multiple perks, the top one being a half-price poetry sale on one series when donations reach $300.
3) Buy It Now! -- Gakked from various e-auction sites, this feature allows you to sponsor a specific poem. If you don't want to wait for some editor to buy and publish my poem so you can read it, well, now you don't have to. Sponsoring a poem means that I will immediately post it on my blog for everyone to see, with the name of the sponsor (or another dedicate) if you wish; plus you get a nonexclusive publication right, so you can post it on your own blog or elsewhere as long as you keep the credits intact. You'll need to tell me the title of the poem you want to sponsor. I'm basing the prices on length, and they're comparable to what I typically make selling poetry to magazines (semi-pro rates according to Duotrope's Digest).
0-10 lines: $5
11-25 lines: $10
26-40 lines: $15
41-60 lines: $20
Poems over 60 lines, or with very intricate structure, fall into custom pricing.
4) Commission a scrapbook page. I can render a chosen poem in hardcopy format, on colorful paper, using archival materials for background and any embellishments. This will be suitable for framing or for adding to a scrapbook. Commission details are here. See latest photos of sample scrapbooked poems: "Sample Scrapbooked Poems 1-24-11"
5) Spread the word. Echo or link to this post on your LiveJournal, other blog, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Digg, StumbleUpon, or any other social network. Useful Twitter hashtags include #poetryfishbowl and #promptcall. Encourage people to come here and participate in the fishbowl. If you have room for it, including your own prompt will give your readers an idea of what the prompts should look like; ideally, update later to include the thumbnail of the poem I write, and a link to the poem if it gets published. If there is at least one new prompter or donor, I will post an extra freebie poem.
Linkback perk: I have a spare series poem available, and each linkback will reveal a verse of the poem. One person can do multiple links if they're on different services, like Dreamwidth or Twitter, rather than all on LiveJournal. Comment with a link to where you posted. "Mipnei Tikkun Ha'olam" belongs to the series Clay of Life and has 15 verses available.
Additional Notes
1) I customarily post replies to prompt posts telling people which of their prompts I'm using, with a brief description of the resulting poem(s). If you want to know what's available, watch for those "thumbnails."
2) You don't have to pay me to see a poem based on a prompt that you gave me. I try to send copies of poems to people, mostly using the LJ message function. (Anonymous prompters will miss this perk unless you give me your eddress.) These are for-your-eyes-only, though, not for sharing.
3) Sponsors of the Poetry Fishbowl in general, or of specific poems, will gain access to an extra post in appreciation of their generosity. While you're on the Donors list, you can view all of the custom-locked posts in that category. Click the "donors" tag to read the archive of those. I've also posted a list of other donor perks there. I customarily leave donor names on the list for two months, so you'll get to see the perk-post from this month and next.
4) After the Poetry Fishbowl concludes, I will post a list of unsold poems and their prices, to make it easier for folks to see what they might want to sponsor.
5) If donations total $100 by Friday evening then you get a free $15 poem; $150 gets you a free $20 poem; and $200 gets you a free epic, posted after the Poetry Fishbowl. These will usually be series poems if I have them; otherwise I may offer non-series poems or series poems in a different size. If donations reach $250, you get one step toward a bonus fishbowl; three of these activates the perk, and they don't have to be three months in a row. Everyone will get to vote on which series, and give prompts during the extra fishbowl, although it may be a half-day rather than a whole day. If donations reach $300, there will be a half-price sale in one series.
Feed the Fish!
Now's your chance to participate in the creative process by posting ideas for me to write about. Today's theme is "schooling vs. education." I'll be soliciting ideas for teachers, students, autodidacts, activists, experts, novices, education coaches for independent learners, people who design educational systems, librarians, coaches, presenters who teach what they know in a freestyle context, parents and grandparents, club leaders, role models, teaching, learning, asking questions, looking up answers, choosing a topic, making a lesson plan, reading, writing, learning by doing, making mistakes and learning from them, challenging assumptions, public schools, private schools, alternative school systems such as Montessori or Waldorf, universities, libraries, bookstores, coffeehouses and ice cream parlors, community centers, gymnasiums, parks, playgrounds, zoos, museums, exploratorium museums, cultural centers, historic sites, learning modes, different types of intelligence, life lessons, activity clubs, sensory toys, educational toys, and poetic forms in particular. But anything is welcome, really. If you manage to recommend a form that I don't recognize, I will probably pounce on it and ask you for its rules. I do have The New Book of Forms by Lewis Turco which covers most common and many obscure forms.
I'll post at least one of the fishbowl poems here so you-all can enjoy it. (Remember, you get an extra freebie poem if someone new posts a prompt or makes a donation, and additional perks at $100-$300 in donations. Linkbacks reveal verses of "Mipnei Tikkun Ha'olam.") The rest of the poems will go into my archive for magazine submission.
Starting now, the Poetry Fishbowl is open! Today's theme is "schooling vs. education." I will be checking this page periodically throughout the day. When people make suggestions, I'll pick some and weave them together into a poem ... and then another ... and so on. I'm hoping to get a lot of ideas and a lot of poems.
Click to read the linkback poem "Mipnei Tikkun Ha'olam" (15 verses, Clay of Life).
What Is a Poetry Fishbowl?
Writing is usually considered a solitary pursuit. One exception to this is a fascinating exercise called a "fishbowl." This has various forms, but all of them basically involve some kind of writing in public, usually with interaction between author and audience. A famous example is Harlan Ellison's series of "stories under glass" in which he sits in a bookstore window and writes a new story based on an idea that someone gives him. Writing classes sometimes include a version where students watch each other write, often with students calling out suggestions which are chalked up on the blackboard for those writing to use as inspiration.
In this online version of a Poetry Fishbowl, I begin by setting a theme; today's theme is "schooling vs. education." I invite people to suggest characters, settings, and other things relating to that theme. Then I use those prompts as inspiration for writing poems.
Cyberfunded Creativity
I'm practicing cyberfunded creativity. If you enjoy what I'm doing and want to see more of it, please feed the Bard. The following options are currently available:
1) Sponsor the Fishbowl -- Here is a PayPal button for donations. There is no specific requirement, but $1 is the minimum recommended size for PayPal transactions since they take a cut from every one. You can also donate via check or money order sent by postal mail. If you make a donation and tell me about it, I promise to use one of your prompts. Anonymous donations are perfectly welcome, just won't get that perk. General donations will be tallied, and at the end of the fishbowl I’ll post a list of eligible poems based on the total funding; then the audience can vote on which they want to see posted.
2) Swim, Fishie, Swim! -- A feature in conjunction with fishbowl sponsorship is this progress meter showing the amount donated. There are multiple perks, the top one being a half-price poetry sale on one series when donations reach $300.
3) Buy It Now! -- Gakked from various e-auction sites, this feature allows you to sponsor a specific poem. If you don't want to wait for some editor to buy and publish my poem so you can read it, well, now you don't have to. Sponsoring a poem means that I will immediately post it on my blog for everyone to see, with the name of the sponsor (or another dedicate) if you wish; plus you get a nonexclusive publication right, so you can post it on your own blog or elsewhere as long as you keep the credits intact. You'll need to tell me the title of the poem you want to sponsor. I'm basing the prices on length, and they're comparable to what I typically make selling poetry to magazines (semi-pro rates according to Duotrope's Digest).
0-10 lines: $5
11-25 lines: $10
26-40 lines: $15
41-60 lines: $20
Poems over 60 lines, or with very intricate structure, fall into custom pricing.
4) Commission a scrapbook page. I can render a chosen poem in hardcopy format, on colorful paper, using archival materials for background and any embellishments. This will be suitable for framing or for adding to a scrapbook. Commission details are here. See latest photos of sample scrapbooked poems: "Sample Scrapbooked Poems 1-24-11"
5) Spread the word. Echo or link to this post on your LiveJournal, other blog, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Digg, StumbleUpon, or any other social network. Useful Twitter hashtags include #poetryfishbowl and #promptcall. Encourage people to come here and participate in the fishbowl. If you have room for it, including your own prompt will give your readers an idea of what the prompts should look like; ideally, update later to include the thumbnail of the poem I write, and a link to the poem if it gets published. If there is at least one new prompter or donor, I will post an extra freebie poem.
Linkback perk: I have a spare series poem available, and each linkback will reveal a verse of the poem. One person can do multiple links if they're on different services, like Dreamwidth or Twitter, rather than all on LiveJournal. Comment with a link to where you posted. "Mipnei Tikkun Ha'olam" belongs to the series Clay of Life and has 15 verses available.
Additional Notes
1) I customarily post replies to prompt posts telling people which of their prompts I'm using, with a brief description of the resulting poem(s). If you want to know what's available, watch for those "thumbnails."
2) You don't have to pay me to see a poem based on a prompt that you gave me. I try to send copies of poems to people, mostly using the LJ message function. (Anonymous prompters will miss this perk unless you give me your eddress.) These are for-your-eyes-only, though, not for sharing.
3) Sponsors of the Poetry Fishbowl in general, or of specific poems, will gain access to an extra post in appreciation of their generosity. While you're on the Donors list, you can view all of the custom-locked posts in that category. Click the "donors" tag to read the archive of those. I've also posted a list of other donor perks there. I customarily leave donor names on the list for two months, so you'll get to see the perk-post from this month and next.
4) After the Poetry Fishbowl concludes, I will post a list of unsold poems and their prices, to make it easier for folks to see what they might want to sponsor.
5) If donations total $100 by Friday evening then you get a free $15 poem; $150 gets you a free $20 poem; and $200 gets you a free epic, posted after the Poetry Fishbowl. These will usually be series poems if I have them; otherwise I may offer non-series poems or series poems in a different size. If donations reach $250, you get one step toward a bonus fishbowl; three of these activates the perk, and they don't have to be three months in a row. Everyone will get to vote on which series, and give prompts during the extra fishbowl, although it may be a half-day rather than a whole day. If donations reach $300, there will be a half-price sale in one series.
Feed the Fish!
Now's your chance to participate in the creative process by posting ideas for me to write about. Today's theme is "schooling vs. education." I'll be soliciting ideas for teachers, students, autodidacts, activists, experts, novices, education coaches for independent learners, people who design educational systems, librarians, coaches, presenters who teach what they know in a freestyle context, parents and grandparents, club leaders, role models, teaching, learning, asking questions, looking up answers, choosing a topic, making a lesson plan, reading, writing, learning by doing, making mistakes and learning from them, challenging assumptions, public schools, private schools, alternative school systems such as Montessori or Waldorf, universities, libraries, bookstores, coffeehouses and ice cream parlors, community centers, gymnasiums, parks, playgrounds, zoos, museums, exploratorium museums, cultural centers, historic sites, learning modes, different types of intelligence, life lessons, activity clubs, sensory toys, educational toys, and poetic forms in particular. But anything is welcome, really. If you manage to recommend a form that I don't recognize, I will probably pounce on it and ask you for its rules. I do have The New Book of Forms by Lewis Turco which covers most common and many obscure forms.
I'll post at least one of the fishbowl poems here so you-all can enjoy it. (Remember, you get an extra freebie poem if someone new posts a prompt or makes a donation, and additional perks at $100-$300 in donations. Linkbacks reveal verses of "Mipnei Tikkun Ha'olam.") The rest of the poems will go into my archive for magazine submission.
Autodidact
Date: 2016-05-03 06:22 pm (UTC)Re: Autodidact
Date: 2016-05-03 08:48 pm (UTC)Re: Autodidact
Date: 2016-05-04 12:59 am (UTC)Re: Autodidact
Date: 2016-05-04 05:15 am (UTC)Because that's such a world-changing idea, I think it'll happen in drips and drabs, as much as he can cope with in a given moment. Otherwise, catastrophic is probably a KIND word for the complete shattering of one of his taught bits of bedrock. He was taught to believe that he was stupid, that he couldn't learn, by the very teachers responsible for his (so-called) education.
Been there, done that, but I didn't have access to a superpower which would make it very, very dangerous to parrot the usual 'reasons' at him when he starts demanding answers. Like I said, EFA will save LIVES in this case.
Re: Autodidact
Date: 2016-05-04 09:31 am (UTC)Re: Autodidact
Date: 2016-05-04 09:39 am (UTC)Also Shiv has no idea how much of a BAMF Stuart can be. No. Freaking. Clue. Stuart is entirely capable of running a supervillain out of town for picking on his kid. He just doesn't do it with his fists.
Re: Autodidact
Date: 2016-05-04 02:11 pm (UTC)Re: Autodidact
Date: 2016-05-04 07:16 pm (UTC)I suspect that Stuart, like Graham, is capable of recognizing (from a different angle) that there's no getting rid of people's baser impulses and thus channeling them into less-destructive routes is advisable. Stuart might be willing and able to work with Shiv, a little, if Shiv could manage to be not a complete prick about it.
Re: Autodidact
Date: 2016-05-04 07:50 pm (UTC)Re: Autodidact
Date: 2016-05-04 07:53 pm (UTC)*ponder* I think that Lawrence is inherently flexible, whereas Shiv is inherently brittle. It's in their personalities, thought patterns, and superpowers. Fucking with Lawrence is like screwing around with a rubber band; sooner or later it will snap back and hit you in the fact. Fucking with Shiv is like trying to juggle broken glass.
Re: Autodidact
Date: 2016-05-04 11:14 pm (UTC)Re: Autodidact
Date: 2016-05-04 11:18 pm (UTC)That's true.
>> In contrast, Shiv has been trying to meld together broken pieces, and that's a wholly different process. <<
:D But wait until you see the truly spectacular things that Shiv can achieve with a handful of broken pieces!
Re: Autodidact
Date: 2016-05-25 06:10 am (UTC)Yyyyyeah. That's likely to be as wrecktastic as finding out they lied to him about his educational opportunities.
It's kind of an odd half-step because if you mention practical things, Shiv is prone to say something like, "I'm a supervillain. I'm not stupid." Frex, his response to cutting himself with his first butterfly knife was to get the cut stitched up and then buy himself a (blunt) trainer to practice with. But if you mention something academic then Shiv thinks he is stupid because he's been told that repeatedly for years. >_<
One of the most valuable things would simply be showing him that there are different types of intelligence. His reading of text may be below average, but his reading of pictures is well above average, and so are his speed and dexterity. So he's good at visual and kinesthetic intelligence rather than linguistic or logical-mathematical. And then this happens.
>> Because that's such a world-changing idea, I think it'll happen in drips and drabs, as much as he can cope with in a given moment. <<
Hopefully so.
>> Otherwise, catastrophic is probably a KIND word for the complete shattering of one of his taught bits of bedrock. He was taught to believe that he was stupid, that he couldn't learn, <<
It's likely to cascade at some point. "Why didn't anyone TELL me?" is turning into a major trigger for him. It blows a fuse in his executive function. *ponder* I'm starting to get an ugly suspicion that one of his abusers liked to reveal rules only after they had been broken.
>>by the very teachers responsible for his (so-called) education. <<
For certain very loose definitions of "responsible."
>> Been there, done that, but I didn't have access to a superpower which would make it very, very dangerous to parrot the usual 'reasons' at him when he starts demanding answers. <<
Sooth. Something Shiv and I share is the ability to cut people with words. It took a while for my ethics to grow in, let alone my control. So yeah, combine a superpower with no brakes with harassment and people are going to get hurt. Most of them learned not to provoke me too much.
>> Like I said, EFA will save LIVES in this case. <<
I agree. Dr. G, Dr. Bloch, Ambrose, Simon and Tolli are all keenly aware of this and trying to get Shiv enough support that he doesn't hurt himself or others by sheer accident.
Re: Autodidact
Date: 2016-05-04 12:59 am (UTC)346 lines, Buy It Now = $173
Available for posting after "Whose Lives Are Quite Different," "Never Quite So Alone Again," "The Passport to the Future," "The Great Art of Life," and "The Passport to the Future" have been sponsored and published.
Re: Autodidact
Date: 2016-05-04 03:34 am (UTC)If wishes were horses, though...
Re: Autodidact
Date: 2016-05-04 03:37 am (UTC)And if you ever do win the lottery, I am very much at your service. ;) I have actually had friends blow windfalls on my archives before. It is fun for everyone.
(no subject)
Date: 2016-05-03 07:37 pm (UTC)How will the Lacuna deal with childrens' education?
Learning to fly.
Poem
Date: 2016-05-03 09:22 pm (UTC)Poem
Date: 2016-05-15 03:29 am (UTC)654 lines, Buy It Now = $327
(no subject)
Date: 2016-05-03 07:44 pm (UTC)2) Nothing clever, just something I've wondered over for years: Why is 99.87654321% of all the "Great Classics" taught from high school onward, Tragic and/or "Gritty"?
Poem
Date: 2016-05-04 03:55 am (UTC)332 lines, Buy It Now = $166
(no subject)
Date: 2016-05-03 10:58 pm (UTC)and on the other side of the cape, I wonder what life as an apprentice super-villain is like.
and on a related note... it's been hypothesised that Librarians are Secret Masters of the Universe, but what if in Terramagne, that's true? That there is a secret order of Librarians...
I remember learning more at University over late night drinking sessions and early morning coffee than I ever did in lectures ... I wonder if the lacuna has something similar, a place where people can share knowledge and experience... or just shoot the breeze and come up with wild ideas... and what happens if spies from both sides compare notes!
Poem
Date: 2016-05-05 05:41 am (UTC)60 lines, Buy It Now = $20
Prompts ahoy!
Date: 2016-05-03 11:49 pm (UTC)Prompt the first: Some of the best teachers are the ones who read aloud to their students.
Prompt the second: Despite a student being academically level with their peers and otherwise cognitively able, mainstream education is the wrong option, and acknowledged as such by more than just the desperate student. ... I'm projecting my own story onto this one, and I know it.
Prompt the third, Polychrome Heroics I hope? When the teacher is the problem.
Re: Prompts ahoy!
Date: 2016-05-04 01:00 am (UTC)Re: Prompts ahoy!
Date: 2016-05-05 04:41 am (UTC)Your prompt about the wrong option inspired the free-verse poem "A Hope and a Promise." Aidan and Saraphina return to Easy City to visit Arlene. She suggests the local Montessori school as a safe place for a meeting, since the berettaflies have made everyone leery of going outdoors even with the warning dropped to Green. What follows is a warm fluffy exploration of a really awesome school, where the grownups are not just tolerant but supportive of children's differences. There's a little angst due to their life challenges but it's mostly sweet.
728 lines, Buy It Now = $364
Prompts
Date: 2016-05-04 12:38 am (UTC)- Teachers doing the best they can in a flawed system.
- I'm particularly thinking of the way that schools in the US have come to function as a sort of bandaid for social services providing meals, clothes and acceptance for many children.
- "Education is not the filing of a pail but the lighting of a fire" William Butler Yeats
- Teaching "difficult" kids
- Non traditional students (GED classes, volunteer ESL classes, I'm thinking stuff that would typically take place at a community center)
- Teaching socio emotional skills to kids who are very bright in academics but less adept at interpersonal relationships
- When I was in high school we were disappointed that we weren't learning life skills like basic cooking and how to deal with interest and taxes and car troubles so we made a series of workshops taught by each other to teach those skills. I feel like this kind of idea would fit well in Terramagne. Just teenagers being frustrated that they aren't learning what they think is important and deciding to teach it themselves. I think this could work especially well in a Soup context because it seems like T-America is better at teaching kids those sorts of needed skills.
As you can tell, I'm pretty passionate about education :)
Re: Prompts
Date: 2016-05-04 03:56 am (UTC)Prompts
Date: 2016-05-04 12:43 am (UTC)Setting/Topic Prompts:
* An Army of One, lessons in making food, from crushed asteroids, comet ice, and sunlight on up to a real meal
* An Army of One, Bexley and Falconwing, “Do I have to learn this?”
* Polychrome Heroics, Camberhawk and Pinion, cuddleable and/or not-so-cuddly birds
Visual Prompts:
* Image of astronaut Mae Jemison in space, under the Career section of this wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_Jemison
* Image of zebra finches:
http://biologicalexceptions.blogspot.com/2013_02_01_archive.html
* Image of comet exuding water vapor:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/07/28/comet_sinkholes_open_up_under_venting_gas.html
Quote/Discussion Prompts:
* Quote from a third grader, after reading a T-shirt on her teacher that said >>I Teach! What’s Your Superpower; So, learning is my superpower.<< Probably Polychrome Heroics. I found it interesting to wonder how learning, not merely as a synonym for intelligence, could be a distinct superpower or supernary trait. What would that look like?
* Quote from Ysabetwordsmith herself, in a comment about playing/fidgeting with interesting object. >> Good for you. Get cat toys if it makes you happy. Fuzzy-sparkling kitty balls. Cage balls with bells. Streamer toys. … I have a stress ball that is made of soft clear rubbery stuff with little hedgehog quills on the outside, stuffed with multicolored beans. I can't keep my hands off it, and it's great for relieving stiff fingers. And I have ribbons, streamers, tinsel, mirrors, bells, all kinds of sensory stuff scattered around. It gives me energy. << Now I’m wondering about how Groundhog and Cassandra will negotiate as her need to have stuff and a place to put stuff emerges. She’s pretty clearly been in survival mode, and however great Groundhog is, a borrowed couch has to feel temporary. She’s already acquired a few very personal items, but what about things she may feel she shouldn’t need because they are “childish?” Will she get them, and if so, where will she put them?
* Quote from Audre Lorde: “I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won’t."
Re: Prompts
Date: 2016-05-04 01:13 am (UTC)Re: Prompts
Date: 2016-05-04 01:23 am (UTC)Thank you! I really appreciate the support. Your new linkback verse is up.
>> Now to wait and twitch my tail until I get to pounce on the shiny words... <<
And now I am remembering this. :D
Re: Prompts
Date: 2016-05-04 01:50 am (UTC)Re: Prompts
Date: 2016-05-04 01:19 am (UTC)49 lines, Buy It Now = $20
Re: Prompts
Date: 2016-05-04 05:20 am (UTC)Re: Prompts
Date: 2016-05-08 08:44 pm (UTC)Re: Prompts
Date: 2016-05-08 08:43 pm (UTC)444 lines, Buy It Now = $222
Re: Prompts
Date: 2016-05-10 04:00 am (UTC)Re: Prompts
Date: 2016-05-10 09:34 am (UTC)Prompts
Date: 2016-05-04 02:23 am (UTC){2} Responsible supervillain starting to clean up the mess by an alleged mentor not reading or ignoring his/her/thon copy of "The Care and Feeding of Supervillains" with a newbie supervillain.
{3} Dr. Infanta in an exploratorium museum.
{4} Teaching a valuable life skill like cooking, sewing, etc.
{5} They say X cannot be taught. This teacher says "Challenge accepted" and discovers that X might have found learning easier if people would stop trying to treat a tactile-kinetic learner like a audio-visual learner. Also if they'd treating X like thon is defective because of it.
Signal boosted here: http://shiori-makiba.dreamwidth.org/28841.html
Re: Prompts
Date: 2016-05-04 04:13 am (UTC)Done for the night!
Date: 2016-05-04 10:30 am (UTC)