We know how much I like Big Paper. Well it turns out I'm also a fan of little bits of sticky paper. Post-it notes have tons of uses in a class room. They can facilitate collaboration, allowing everyone to contribute. They can be moved, sorted, and resorted. They can be used to give feedback or annotation and they can be stuck around the room on anything, even people.
In today's activity we were reading about Christ's declaration to the people of Nazareth, his home town, that he was the Messiah as recorded in Luke 4. Christ spoke of how Old Testament prophets Elijah and Elisha went unrecognised in Israel yet miraculously blessed the lives of foreigners. In an activity designed to open a dicussion about the human nature of our church leaders coupled with their divine commission, I gave each student a few post-its and asked them to write down anything they knew about President Monson and stick them around his picture on my white board.
We then sorted the notes into things which are unique to President Monson and things which apply to many people, which really became a separation between things that are part of his nature and things which are by virtue of his calling.As always my students succeeded in both educating and entertaining me. There was an odd fixation with his ears. "He has Grandad ears," and "He can wiggle his ears." Jacob suggested that he had lines around his eyes from "smiling too much" but William stole the day with the brazen claim,"His pin number is XXXX".
P.S. If you want a really cool recap of conference check out this blog http://beckstrombuzz.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/monday-sketchbook-conference-recap.html
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