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Make suggestions, report errors > A little tip for the day..
A little tip for the day..
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mjpa
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There is something I still do not understand about this page.
It seems colourful worksheets with lots of clipart, images and so on are always the most popular and downloaded ones whereas I prefer black and white works with less images and things on. And I take for granted most people think like me since it�s much better when printing or photocopying them. It�s simply much "cheaper".
However, I�ve realized "simple" works do not catch the eye of anybody, so me, myself, end up creating worksheets with lots of colours, backgrounds and so on.
So, what�s the aim of this if in the end we have to change them and do as Zora says? That is, changing them, removing colour, cliparts and so on? |
4 Nov 2009
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zailda
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Some teachers remove things from wss, I use them the way they are, my ss like colorful ws, with pics related to the topic. If there isn �t a clear purpose for the pictures I don �t download it because removing them is time-consuming.
When dealing with vocabulary pictures are welcomed if they are related to the topic and there is an activity to go with them.
Have a nice day!
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4 Nov 2009
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eng789
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1. Like in Hebrew - Arabic is written from right to left - so ws are often written in the correct - left to right but the page hasn �t been set to L-R so editing because a nightmare. 2. Please make clip art editable also because I usually move it around or delete it. 3. I agree that fonts should not be less that 11 or 12 - anything else makes it difficult to read. 4. 2 to a page if possible.
We are creating wss for all the different kinds of teachers here. I know that a lot of teachers print the wss as are with all the pics and color because they are teaching privately and don �t have a large number of pupils. There is no way that I can print 240 colored wss each time I want a level to work on a page. I love the black and white pages that people have been uploading lately - they save me some work because I only need to shrink the fonts so I can do 2 on a page.
Thanks guys for your great pages. Hugs from Israel. |
4 Nov 2009
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colibrita
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Wow, lots of very useful and interesting tips and observations here. Keep them coming!
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4 Nov 2009
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baiba
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Mistakes, mistakes, mistakes! That �s what disappoints me most of all when I discover that I have to do error correction before I give the ws to my students.
I have felt embarrassed in the classroom more than once when I did not check the ws before using it (my fault!). There have been crossword puzzles with missing squares and texts with missing lines and spelling mistakes. I have deleted heaps of baby-ish pictures so that my 17-year-old students wouldn �t sneer.
I wish we all devoted more time to checking and re-checking the worksheet before uploading it here.
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4 Nov 2009
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colibrita
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The occasional error doesn �t bother me, but when somebody is a serial mistake maker then I usually stop downloading their stuff. If there are already a number of mistakes in the w/s description then that �s a bad sign and i don �t waste my time checking it out.
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4 Nov 2009
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colibrita
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Perhaps it would be handy if ESPr. had an "image-free" filter on the search boxes....
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4 Nov 2009
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