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I am looking for input as to whether or not the lesson I chose can be considered a Problem Based Lesson. I was thinking the students have to figure out what the style of Surrealism is, what symbols will work, what techniques will work, and, finally how to design it so that the audience can understand and appreciate what they are trying to say. But now that I look over the rest, I'm doubting my choice. I would appreciate any input. Mary = = ====**Mary -** I do not think you need to rethink this too much. Go with your first idea because I believe it will be easier for you to flesh out the lesson than if you were to start over from scratch. A major concern I have for your topic is time. I am not sure how you are going to fit this into one lesson. Why don't you just take one of your questions and try to get the students to find a solution. For example, one of your questions involves how the artist can design a lesson so that the audience can understand and appreciate it. Why not give them some examples of poorly designed surrealist art and ask students how these could be developed to be more comprehensible by an audience. If you do not like that, then why not ask students to brainstorm about what symbols would be central to a theme such as love or freedom. As you go on, you can make each lesson answer another one of your initial questions until you have a final product designed by the students. I think a social collaboration among students about which symbols should be used would be something you could design for this week! Can you imagine all of the arguing among students?====

Vernon
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How do I format my page so that the table will line up? I can not get the minutes and the resources to line up with the instructions... Mary

Mary, I had the same issue and it drove me crazy! I //played// around with the table for a while to get things lined up. I will take a look at yours to see if I figure out how to line things up. Do you have a Mac? I do and wonder if the different versions of Word are to blame? Joanne

Joanne, I do have a Mac. My older version of word is on my laptop, but I can't edit the wiki page from there. So I emailed it to my desktop which has the new word. Had to use compatibility mode to get it to open. My desktop is the newest version so I'm not sure if wiki hasn't synced to that yet or what. I ended up posting mine yesterday (late) because I just couldn't get it to look right and couldn't afford to lose anymore points. This is one area where technology can set you back :/ Mary

Mary, Well at least we know why it is an issue. Apparently we were on your page at the same time and by the time I figured out how to "fix" the issue of getting things to line up you made changes and I did not want to overwrite your changes. Here is how to line up the parts of the table: 1. you have to cut and paste the entries you need to change one at a time 2. and delete spaces, then enter spaces and use the arrow to go up to the place you want to paste

I hope this makes sense?! I will be happy to fix it for you if you still have difficulty. Joanne

Mary, I was just looking at another page in our wiki. I noticed every time the author of the page (I do not remember whose I looked at) had a new section in the lesson for 15 min for example it looks like he/she added a row below the one they were working on rather than to just hit the enter key. This may be where we ran into difficulty I created my instructional activities as one BIG row! Just a thought for this week. Joanne

Joanne,

YOU ARE A GENIUS!!! I've got the hang of it now. Thank you so much!!!