Today I read another post from "Learning from my Mistakes, an English Teacher's Blog," and though it was short and not necessarily descriptive, I got alot from it. In my technology class, we have been learning about visual learners and how-in this day and age-it is imperitive to incorporate visual learning in the classroom. The blog post I read describes how articles (probably on the internet or in a newspaper/tabloid) hook you in immediately. They use a picture. This, in my opinion, is the most important part. When someone shares something on facebook, you see a title, a subtitle and a picture. Chances are, the picture is what caught your attention. The heading gives you a short, hooking, bit of information and the subheader describes the content matter more thoroughly. As a good writing activity in my class, I believe I will do one of two things, either show students a picture, title and subtitle and have them write what they think is going to be described in the article or have students include a picture with research papers. An image would be a great way to get other students interested in reading their peer's work and it would teach the students good marketing techniques.
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