Sounds like an Adult ESL Instructional Grouping Strategy

working In pears

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I hardly ever post anything about the English as a Second Language (ESL) classes I teach. I always take my iPad and project it onto a large screen. Oftentimes, I do a digital drawing in Paper 53 that accompanies a set of scrambled words that I ask students to unscramble. It works especially well at the very beginning of my multi-level, adult, beginning ESL classes as students trickle in. Here’s a collection of a few that I’ve recently used.

CLICK HERE FOR A PDF VERSION OF THE UNSCRAMBLE EXERCISES THAT ALLOWS YOU TO COMPLETE EACH EXERCISE PAGE BY PAGE.

CLICK HERE FOR A VIDEO SAMPLE OF THE UNSCRAMBLE EXERCISES THAT ALLOWS YOU TO VIEW ALL OF THE EXERCISES WITHOUT STOPPING

Teaching ESL is a fun way to apply anthropology.

While I was eating

Back in early May 2019 I attended an all-day conference held at Stanford University, and so I went up the day before to have a relaxing meal and get a good night sleep. That evening I was lucky to find a restaurant right across the street from the hotel in Palo Alto, CA called Siam Fine Thai Cuisine. As usual, I took my iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, which I used while I slowly sipped my beer and ate my pad Thai with tofu. There were folks sitting to my left next to the window, and they became that evening’s practice in the Sketch Club app. When the owners saw what I was doing, they got curious. I showed them the piece, and they liked it enough to express interest in obtaining a copy. Check back to see an image of the wall hanging at Siam Fine Thai Cuisine. Here’s the piece:

While I Was Eating at Siam Fine Thai Cuisine

Incidentally, the conference was called iRelaunch. It was a valuable experience, and I highly recommend it for people who’ve had to step away from their profession(s) briefly for one reason or another. Click here for more information about the iRelaunch Conferences and Carol Fishman Cohen:

One relatively comical take away from the conference was this drawing in Paper 53. A panelist suggested that it’s important to get dressed and to make yourself presentable everyday while you are in the job-search mode…even if it generally takes long for you to look natural (anywhere)!

Whatever It Takes

Either/or Anymore

 

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iPad art, Paper 53 or Paper 4 not sure anymore, iColorama to sharpen, Procreate to illuminate the red and green lights, Apple Pencil.

Scooterman

Suddenly, there he was in the privileged left-turn-only lane about to head north on G St. He exuded energy efficiency and playfulness.

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W&J’s Old Main in Washington PA

A rough, very free-hand, and quick sketch of Old Main on the picturesque campus of my alma mater, Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, PA drawn on my iPad Pro using an Apple Pencil in an app called Paper 53 and another called iColorama and based on a personal photo. Just below it is another digital painting done previously on my iPad in the Procreate app of the Washington Trust Building and surrounding cityscape, a view that repeatedly caught my eye whenever I’d sit on the hillside in front of Old Main as an undergraduate from 1974 to 1978. (See related post related to Jefferson College and Washington & Jefferson College.)

I drew Old Main on a visit to my hometown, Canonsburg, PA while sipping an 1802 Cream Ale on nitro at the Rusty Gold Brewing. I was sitting at the bar painting on my iPad, and the curious bartender asked me if I was carrying any prints on me for sale. I was; a little paper print of this image from this post. She bought it and put in on a shelf; see below. Awesome, eh? 

Washington Trust Building done in Procreate (click on image to enlarge)

Check out their logo. Maybe this is why they selected one of my truck images.

 

Andrew has never been the same ever since

A rite of passage, a transition ceremony of sorts! Andrew’s identity changed when he left the group of non-shoe tyers and became a member of the shoe-tyers group.

Click on image to enlarge it. Incidentally, this actually happened in the mid 1990s, a couple of years after completing my doctorate, and it encapsulated in a single episode my sociolinguistically-oriented dissertation research in a bilingual Kindergarten classroom near Washington, DC in the mid 1990s that was undergoing a reform of its mathematics curriculum. Learning is identity change. Andrew has never been the same ever since!

Cinema Cafe

I agree with the Trip Advisor reviewers, Cinema Cafe is a gem. Everything’s fresh, even the banana trees. Done (very quickly) on an iPad Pro with Apple Pencil in Paper 53 and iColorama.

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MISTER…TEAR DOWN THIS…

Mr. Trump, Tear Down This BS

At the risk of increasing his popularity among those suffering from socio-political dyslexia…

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Paper 53

Referendum

Over the top or down back behind?
Referendum

Made with Paper 53

Guess who got an iPad Pro?

It”s big, alright! I had to take it out for its first spin around the block using Paper 53. I think I’m going to like it a lot.
New iPad Pro