Wrote one idea on a sticky note and put it on the wall. Subscribe to the email newsletter for updates and opportunities to have YOUR story in the book!) I started brainstorming on a project a few days ago - a follow-up book to Dave Burgess's Teach Like a Pirate called Tech Like a Pirate! (More details on that coming. It's a blank canvas, and the sky's the limit on what you - and your students - can create with it. You can add text, images, shapes, lines, videos, etc. The slides serve as individual workspaces. I use Google Slides for EVERYTHING these days. Sticky note brainstorming with Google Slides Plus, you're limited to the number of sticky notes you have - and the colors available. Or my family gets sick of seeing them all over the place.

Sometimes, I put them up on a wall at home. I stack them up and all the glorious organizing is gone. Sometimes, I scatter all my stickies and organize them at a coffee shop and then I have to pick them up when I'm done. Here's the problem that I always run into with sticky note brainstorming.

Debriefing after a science lab or physics experiment.

Organizing events for clubs, sports, drama, etc.

Lesson planning, unit planning, curriculum planning.

Sticky note brainstorming can be used for a lot: Pretty soon, the butterflies start to fly in formation, as they say. It's much easier to see what's missing and what I have too much of this way. Then I'll start moving them around and organizing ideas. I'll write out all of my ideas on them - good or bad - and put them on the wall.

There are stacks of stacks of sticky notes sometimes!īut there's something magical about using sticky notes. Have you ever felt like autumn has arrived and your desk is covered with sticky notes like leaves falling from the trees? You have sticky notes on your monitor, on your computer, on the filing cabinet, on your desk.

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