homework

wait, wait.. I know what I want to do here; let's do a frame thingy. I invent some of the coolest toys for teaching and learning and for facilitating. The one I'm about to demonstrate is to keep the stream flowing.. or to -start- the stream flowing. I've made a document that's got a vertical line of numbers and the way it works izzat the typist drops into the #1 line, types for a minute and then uses the down arrow to drop into the #2 line and so on. Be sure to use the down arrow and not the enter (return) key. I figure you can type well enough to watch a clock mre than your fingers and that you have a clock w/a sweep second hand.. a digital second counter would work JUST as well. The length of the timing interval isn't important, I usually use one minute increments and neither is the number of lines in the frame, I've got frames for ten and fifteen minute timings; ten might be better for first-timers, especially if the IDEA of trying to keep it going for fifteen minutes is daunting.
I've done this @ both my sites before and put up blank frames, too. The blanks can be clipped and dropped onto a Word page. If you like the way this exercise runs out, you'll want to find a place to keep a clean spare so you don't have to regenerate or recapture another after using one.
I like the fifteen.
1) And I really like dark chocolate; I nearly always have some w/me. Today I had strawberries w/my dark chocolate kisses and they both were fonderful.
2) until JUST the past couple of months I was buying (well Jen was buying for me) the Hershey's big blocks and I'd break the blocks into the little
3) branded rectangles and the rectangles intothree pieces each to make a bag of chocolate nibbles and I loved playing w/the chocolate, it's such a nice sensory thing
4) w/the smell and the feel and the sound of the pieces breaking up. Jen, the master shopper, has found that the kisses are a better buy so that's what I'm carrying.
5) The kisses have a slightly different texture than or from the big block, I prefer the block; the kisses are creamier but they really
6) are fab w/the strawberries. They're fab anyway.. they melt so deliciously in my mouth.. especially w/that sip of hot coffee.. yeah, I *KNOW* how
7) to enjoy my candy. I don't eat a lot of candy, I'll share twice or three times as much as I eat, but hey, I've got it and.. well, it's NICE to share, isn't it. That's
8) not really a question. So, woddaya think about my cool toy? That one clearly IS a question. I have found that it does sort of engender more
9) topical discourse than I usually get from or through the stream. The thing for the newbie to recognize and something I sometimes have to remind
10) m'self of, izzat thisis NOT a race. it's not necessary or even desirable to try to make each set of numbers lines as long or longer than the one above it.
11) it's a tool, a toy, not a master. Try to have some fun w/it. crap, I'm being summoned I guess that was fun for about ten min.
12) dot dot dot.. I don't know how long it took to help Honey get her suitcase unpacked but coming back and knocking out the last three min of the timing seemed like the thing to do. I sorta have a fetish for
13) form and it really would bug me to leave this thing, um, this frame unfinished. I've done it before, but it was.. I think what happened was that there was a technical
14) problem w/the way the cursor was moving into the relative next line that drove me to distraction and caused me to abandon the fun after about ten or eleven lines. And I see that
15) I've eased into the fifteenth line. Yay! FYI, I pulled my formerly clean frame from a stack I keep @ the bottom of the em jour, oh nine.

And that's the way that goes. try it.. and I've got another li'l toy that's even more fun.. It'll take me a while to track it down, but I've got a haiku generator stowed @ A Muse. When I find it, I'll link you and I almost guarantee you'll have some fun w/that!

peace and hope
-km-