Hi Carol in Tipsterville,
Yep, the activity is super! It's hard to find very good activities but the wingdings and learning a language really drives it home! I tried it along with the students the first time I used it, and found it very frustrating!
Many advanced placement people use a similar activity using a storybook from the 1950s.
jim
Jim Matiya
Carl Sandburg High School
131st and LaGrange Road
Orland Park, IL 60462
2003 Moffett Memorial (High School Category)
Teaching Excellence Award of the Society for
the Teaching of Psychology (Division Two of the
American Psychological Association
Lewis University. Romeoville, IL
Moraine Valley Comm. College. Palos Hills, IL
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>To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: Language activities
>Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 17:20:51 -0600
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>I used the wingdings activity in class the other day--I printed out the chapter study guide I supply in wingdings and told the students to figure it out. After their initial shock and exclamations of dismay, we talked about aphasia, alexia, dyslexia, learning to read and write as a child, and so forth (I had actually gone over much of that before I handed out the sham study guides). Then when they had sufficiently puzzled over the study guides, I gave them the real one (in Arial). They were relieved and the point was made. Thanks for a great suggestion!
>Carol
>ps--One student actually said he was going to translate the whole thing later--I told him he needs to get a life. Another student thought I was serious and wondered how she would have time to do the translation. She's blonde, but then so am I. :)
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>From: Jim Matiya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences
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>Hi Everyone,
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>Annette Taylor wanted some activities for language. This isn't exactly an activity,
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>Go to www.georgetown.edu/cball/animals and see what people around the world call the different sounds of animals. Pretty fascinating!
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>Jim Matiya
>Carl Sandburg High School
>131st and LaGrange Road
>Orland Park, IL 60462
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>2003 Moffett Memorial (High School Category)
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>Teaching Excellence Award of the Society for
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>the Teaching of Psychology (Division Two of the
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>American Psychological Association
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>Lewis University. Romeoville, IL
>Moraine Valley Comm. College. Palos Hills, IL
>Illinois Virtual High School. Cyberspace?
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> >From: "Annette Taylor, Ph. D."
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