TALONS English

A space for collaboration, communication, and curation of learning.

 

You'll find this space an aggregation of TALONS English work. Centered largely around a communicative network that is supported by 60 individual blogs (including three teachers, and a grade twelve peer tutor), as well as a class publication,Defying Normality, you'll find artifacts of the class' learning in the RSS feed embedded in the page below, as well as the materials socially bookmarked with the tag TalonsEnglish on Delicious.com (what is social bookmarking? ). 

Current Unit of Study: Shakespeare

2012 TALONS

• Socials Group Evaluation by Jess
  How well do you think people understood their tasks on Friday/Tuesday? We think that people understood their tasks well on Friday and Tuesday. We found that most of them read their assigned blog posts and knew the general layout of the debate and what they were debating for. Is there a way to foster more back and forth & collective thinking/debate? More back and forth, as well as collective thinking and debate, could be fostered by ordering the groups into speaking orders that they must f...
• Reflection – Canadian confederation Presentation by talonsjulien
  A couple of weeks ago  my quad and myself were assigned to create a presentation about the great coalition and conferences. With a slightly short time than planned, I think hope was one of the things we did well.  During our presentation and quad discussions, I pushed people toward using and understanding certain vocabulary because I knew that because this was the last lesson/discussion people knew that they were on the verge of finding closure.  The conferences and great coalition was the la...
• Real In-Depth Post #4 by Marie :D
  “With so much freedom for discovery, how can life be anything but playful?” I admit that there is quite a great deal of truth to this quote, especially when it comes to in depth. The in depth project is all about providing us with the opportunity to discover new interests. I feel that for me so far, my in depth project has been full of fun and play. I’ve been given the freedom to explore my interests and dress up as crazy characters from animations. Since I find fun what I’m doing, it doesn’t...
• Card XII: The Hanged Man – When stuck at a stalemate or in times of distress, he sees things in a new perspective. Doing so provides enlightenment from this self-sacrificial state. [In-Depth Post #4] by Alisha
  “With so much freedom for discovery, how can life be anything but playful?” For me, that’s the thing about in-depth that doesn’t make it seem like just any other project. It’s a project where I’m completely interested in learning about the subject, where doing the work doesn’t feel like a burden, where I can learn what I want, at the pace I want, and specifically want about it I want to learn about. How else could in-depth not be playful? (: So lately I’ve mostly been trying to practice on my...
• Unplug’d 2012: Letters from the Edge by bryanjack
  I’m happy to report that the fruits of last summer’s Unplug’d 2012 event have emerged as a fabulous mosaic of letters, songs and stories written and published in Algonquin Park over a weekend in August. You can find my letter, written in the form of a song, on my page here, as well as video of me telling a story and singing a song on the Voyageur Six String Nation guitar on Sunday morning in Algonquin. [A previous post about my musical weekend at Unplug'd can be found here.] Thanks to Rod...
• Pre- In-depth post #4 by Marie :D
  I feel like this seems like a big excuse, but the reason I haven’t posted anything for in depth is because it rained… Silly, I know, but honestly I went out yesterday to go take some photos in costume. Unfortunately, the rain hadn’t stopped until quite late in the afternoon, and by that time it was quite dark. When it became pitch black outside, I went home to look over the photos, and realized that they weren’t great enough to post. Now enough excuses… I plan on going out again on Sunday to ...
• Snowshoeing at Seymour by bryanjack
  Thanks to Jeff for capturing this video of his day at Mount Seymour last week, and reflecting on the editing process as part of his InDepth Study: I’ve got to say, editing that video wasn’t as painful as I thought it would be. There was a lot of things that happened like snowball fights, and there wasn’t the need to “fluff it up” to meet the time requirement; after all, I did have a lot of footage to choose from. I think I’m doing a lot better in my video editing, especially in syncing the v...