#teaching resources

[greekmythcomix]

Me: dislikes Theseus, likes minotaur, likes papercraft

Me: makes entire Labyrinth and Knossos Palace paper Playset so can kill Theseus at hands of minotaur

They also interlock to make one big Playset:

And by the way the Labyrinth walls move 👀 (and you can use it as a game board - game instructions included)

And also it’s also available in colour:

You can get your own here (https://greekmythcomixshop.Wordpress.com) if you fancy it. (These things are how I keep the rest of my main educational site free and free from ads)

[everybodysinvited]

What is Asexuality?

An intro to asexuality! A quick intro to what the term means and some pop culture sources for if you want to explore more! Plus a short interview with my friend Heather, (she/her) on her experience and advice as an asexual person. Thank you Heather! 💖

It's important to remember that like any other sexual orientation, it's a spectrum and each person's experience is unique and one account doe not represent all accounts. As mentioned, asexuality is an umbrella term and some people may use it as just one of many descriptors for their sexuality! If you're unsure you can politely ask someone, but they do not owe you an explanation or a deep-dive into their sexuality. Why not check out one of the recommended books above or Yasmin Benoit's movement #thisiswhatsexuallookslike

If you have any more pop culture mentions or resources on asexuality, why not drop them in the comments! 👀

Image & text description in ALT

[courtingwonder]

Chart Comparing Different Classes Of Lever

[adastra-sf]

It looks like the original link on that post no longer works. Is the new link you added just the new version, or does that original page still exist?

Thanks for asking! Yes, the newer link goes to our new website where you can find all the original info from our old site plus lots more:

It's organized by several categories, including links to sites of interest to writers, educators, scholars, and fans. We host a bunch of materials on our site, too, and that's ever-growing.

We hope you enjoy! And as always, let us know if something no longer works or if you have a suggestion for new material.

[ameera-ameera]

Can you find all the hidden animal words? Words can go in any direction, including backwards and diagonal.

Solution:

[ID in alt]

[heterophobic-antipope]

resources for teaching english?

this is a long shot but anyone knows of any resources to help someone teach English? I was approached by a friend’s sister who wants to learn and I do desperately need the money ($10 in my bank account with bills to pay and no food kind of desperate lol), but I learned English playing Kingdom Hearts lmao I have no idea how to pass the knowledge to someone else and I’m really thinking about just refusing her offer 

[librarianofdreams]

WHOA ✨✨✨

plus I suddenly feel the urge to be a teacher again bc the kids would find this so cool

[earllbelll]

Explore Advanced Teaching Resources at Resources for Teaching

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[greekmythcomix]

How I teach the Iliad in highschool:

I’ve taught the Iliad for over a decade, I’m literally a teacher, and I can even spell ‘Iliad’, and yet my first instinct when reading someone’s opinions about it is not to drop a comment explaining what it is, who ‘wrote’ it, and what that person’s intention truly was.

Agh. <the state of Twitter>

The first thing I do when I am teaching the Iliad is talk about what we know, what we think we know, and what we don’t know about Homer:

We know -

- 0

We think we know -

- the name Homer is a person, possibly male, possibly blind, possibly from Ionia, c.8th/9th C BCE.

- composed the Iliad and Odyssey and Hymns

We don’t know -

- if ‘Homer’ was a real person or a word meaning singer/teller of these stories

- which poem came first

- whether the more historical-sounding events of these stories actually happened, though there is evidence for a similar, much shorter, siege at Troy.

And then I get out a timeline, with suggested dates for the ‘Trojan war’ and Iliad and Odyssey’s estimated composition date and point out the 500ish years between those dates. And then I ask my class to name an event that happened 500 years ago.

They normally can’t or they say ‘Camelot’, because my students are 13-15yo and I’ve sprung this on them. Then I point out the Spanish Armada and Qu. Elizabeth I and Shakespeare were around then. And then I ask how they know about these things, and we talk about historical record.

And how if you don’t have historical record to know the past, you’re relying on shared memory, and how that’s communicated through oral tradition, and how oral tradition can serve a second purpose of entertainment, and how entertainment needs exciting characteristics.

And we list the features of the epic poems of the Iliad and Odyssey: gods, monsters, heroes, massive wars, duels to the death, detailed descriptions of what armour everyone is wearing as they put it on. (Kind of like a Marvel movie in fact.)

And then we look at how long the poems are and think about how they might have been communicated: over several days, when people would have had time to listen, so at a long festival perhaps, when they’re not working. As a diversion.

And then I tell them my old and possibly a bit tortured simile of ‘The Pearl of Myth’:

(Here’s a video of The Pearl of Myth with me talking it through in a calming voice: https://youtu.be/YEqFIibMEyo?sub_confirmation=1

And after all that, I hand a student at the front a secret sentence written on a piece of paper, and ask them to whisper it to the person next to them, and for that person to whisper it to the next, and so on. You’ve all played that game.

And of course the sentence is always rather different at the end than it was at the start, especially if it had Proper nouns in it (which tend to come out mangled). And someone’s often purposely changed it, ‘to be funny’.

And we talk about how this is a very loose metaphor for how stories and memory can change over time, and even historical record if it’s not copied correctly (I used to sidebar them about how and why Boudicca used to be known as ‘Boadicea’ but they just know the former now, because Horrible Histories exists and is awesome)

And after all that, I remind them that what we’re about to read has been translated from Ancient Greek, which was not exactly the language it was first written down in, and now we’re reading it in English.

And that’s how my teenaged students know NOT TO TAKE THE ILIAD AS FACT.

(And then we read the Iliad)

[elanorx]

Tongue twisters to practice the vowel sounds

I made a little video to practice English pronunciation using tongue twisters, it's rather simple and that's the point, check the sound of it and start practicing!

I know I shouldn’t start the post expressing doubts about my own abilities, but it’s a struggle to do anything new and I guess I can at least be transparent about it. This is one of the first attempts to produce content to use for my lessons, I’m very self concious about video because I always had a hard time with it at uni… but it doesn’t need to be perfect for it to be useful. I’m working on…

[courtingwonder]

All About X-Rays Guide --- From "The Book", pg. 46-47

[thisisgraeme]

ChatGPT for Educators: Using AI as a Personal Tutor and Digital Teaching Assistant (Part 3)

Ready to revolutionise your classroom with AI? Learn how ChatGPT for educators can act as a Personal Tutor for students and a Digital Teaching Assistant for lesson planning.

ChatGPT for Educators: Using AI as a Personal Tutor and Digital Teaching Assistant As AI technology continues to advance, its applications in education grow even more powerful and practical. In this third session of our series, we explore two transformative roles for ChatGPT in the classroom: as a Personal Tutor that engages directly with students, and as a Digital Teaching Assistant that…

[resourcesforteachingau]

Best Teacher Resources for Primary and Secondary Education

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[adastra-sf]

Our director has been building science fiction resource websites since 1992, carrying over content from one to the next after (for example) our old university killed them. Nice thing about old-school HTML + CSS programming is that it's trivial to move from one host to the next. We offer...

...and lots more, including course syllabi.

For example, here's where the writer resources page lives. We've updated the site to modern HTML / CSS with the most-recent move and added new stuff (always), plus it's still deeply content-heavy (it even includes lots of links to our director's curated Tumblr tags).

Internet 1.0 is alive and well!

Sometimes I’m looking for something online - often “how to” articles - and I want to filter for - like - a website that was clearly built in 2010 at the latest, which may or may not have been updated since then, but contains a vast wealth of information on one topic, painstakingly organized by an unknown legend in the field with decades’ worth of experience. I don’t want a listicle with a nice stolen picture in a slideshow format written by a content aggregator that God forgot. I want hand-drawn diagrams by some genius professor who doesn’t understand SEO at all, but understands making stir-fries or raising stick insects better than anyone else on this earth. I don’t know what search settings to put into Google to get this.

[waywordsstudio]

Last spring I posted about my project to design a poetry book that would juxtapose traditional forms with free verse to focus reading on the meaningful impacts of poetic structure.

And it is now complete and now available! The educational supplements package--around 350 pages of print-ready poems, annotated versions for students and teachers, essays on 19 forms, and source lists for master works in each form (sestina, Petrarchan sonnet, ghazal, etc.) along with selected annotated versions of these--are currently free to download as well! Audio and video readings now far behind.

I'm now working on a printed Teachers Guide with classroom applications and an online course to be ready before the calendar year ends. All materials are Creative Commons copyright (BY-NC-SA).

If you want free materials on poetry structure (suitable for grades 9-16), now is a good time to download it! (And if you are looking for book pricing for classrooms, feel free to reach out.) Enjoy! https://waywordsstudio.com/project/unwoven/