tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5443776659707935381.post2551829323705196678..comments2023-06-07T07:58:31.471-07:00Comments on Sharing Our Notebooks: Tanny McGregor: Notebooks Make Life More MeaningfulAmy LVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16625469276544426664noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5443776659707935381.post-31809685827893087822020-08-15T18:11:14.820-07:002020-08-15T18:11:14.820-07:00Notebooks are essential to me as well. For all the...Notebooks are essential to me as well. For all the reasons you describe above and many others as well. Great article!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00997805003417906032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5443776659707935381.post-71840236103178440442016-01-12T18:09:59.030-08:002016-01-12T18:09:59.030-08:00I am now motivated to start "taping things in...I am now motivated to start "taping things in" my notebooks. I have napkins, backs of envelopes, grocery receipts; all with snippets and snatches of ideas that come to me in the most inconvenient places (like restaurants, groceries stores, etc)! Thank you for an additional organizational tool! Loved the article. I too, was and am an avid reader....I was soooo good at walking 1 mile to the town library and walking back home while reading at the same time. I never did get hit by a car....nothing short of a miracle! Thanks for your wonderful article!<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5443776659707935381.post-48110347129243719932015-12-31T17:38:13.692-08:002015-12-31T17:38:13.692-08:00Thanks to all for merging your thinking here with ...Thanks to all for merging your thinking here with mine. Here's to more doodling, sketching, drawing, coloring and notebooking in 2016! <br />Tanny McGregorAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10524333704221813342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5443776659707935381.post-65981861541411709512015-12-31T07:08:40.449-08:002015-12-31T07:08:40.449-08:00Tanny, thank you for sharing your thoughts on note...Tanny, thank you for sharing your thoughts on notebooking. Your notes are amazing! I have used journals over the years to jot down my thoughts and dreams, but I need to become more consistent. In the classroom though, my students used reflection journals to write down their thoughts in response to literature. They loved it, and I can definitely say that it increased their comprehension because they were thinking deeply. You are an inspiration. Your blog has given me the encouragement that I need to begin my own blog. I've been thinking about it for sometime. Again thank you for sharing your thoughts and feelings! <br /><br />Sheila HillSheila Diggs Hillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5443776659707935381.post-68546852044835949062015-12-31T06:59:25.652-08:002015-12-31T06:59:25.652-08:00I completely agree there is an "art" to ...I completely agree there is an "art" to taking notes. It also just helps your connect & think about what you're writing. I buy at least one {maybe more like five} new notebooks a year for various reasons - even when others insist I go digital, I know there is something powerful about a pen! Thanks for sharing your story!<br />-AmandaAmanda Schreiberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07469128991778777360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5443776659707935381.post-21505966608916188882015-12-29T06:37:56.818-08:002015-12-29T06:37:56.818-08:00Such an inspirational post. I've been away fro...Such an inspirational post. I've been away from writing and blogging the last few months and this might be exactly what I needed to read today! Thank you Tanny!!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12752688783271031739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5443776659707935381.post-61230025016646205622015-12-28T17:43:12.291-08:002015-12-28T17:43:12.291-08:00Thank you for your passion for reading and writing...Thank you for your passion for reading and writing. Thank you for sharing it with so many. I have used interactive notebooks in my classes for several years. I am excited about starting a new personal notebook of blessinga in 2016. Thank you for your inspiration. Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17862599613676531719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5443776659707935381.post-56447006981634164102015-12-28T11:29:49.127-08:002015-12-28T11:29:49.127-08:00I am a big fan of your writing and have used it ma...I am a big fan of your writing and have used it many times in my classroo . Really like the way you carry pens!��Mrs. Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16859531163275082890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5443776659707935381.post-90952785056626732472015-12-27T18:53:30.262-08:002015-12-27T18:53:30.262-08:00I am so excited because I was asked to be part of ...I am so excited because I was asked to be part of a writing club and I am excited about being creative. I know giving students the opportunity to be creative in their writing will help them open up to their own creativity. As a cults we have to be in the midst of it, too so we can encourage them to let go and be writers! Thanks for the inspiration that comes from your work.Lolly Salazarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12674025207924321095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5443776659707935381.post-22000630215349780152015-12-27T07:30:37.391-08:002015-12-27T07:30:37.391-08:00Thank you Tanny for sharing your creativity with t...Thank you Tanny for sharing your creativity with the educational world! I'm an art teacher turned reading teacher and appreciate every opportunity to allow students to express themselves creatively. I love your Comprehension Connectons book and found that the metacogative lessons you created to be so helpful to my struggling readers. I'm looking forward to the Genre Connections book and all of your future endeavors. You are truly inspiring!Helaine Fashbindernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5443776659707935381.post-36376435341751905812015-12-26T20:52:03.418-08:002015-12-26T20:52:03.418-08:00I was so inspired that I purchased a blank sketchb...I was so inspired that I purchased a blank sketchbook and a set of Sharpie fine tip pens today so I can use note booking to help with metacognition and as a creative outlet. Thank you!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01295413539816842630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5443776659707935381.post-83930804974351416592015-12-26T16:06:10.388-08:002015-12-26T16:06:10.388-08:00I love your notebook collections. Moving into to 2...I love your notebook collections. Moving into to 2016, I would like to add a "commonplace" notebook to my collection so that I can have all the great ideas and lessons shared by those before me in one place. Your students are so lucky to have someone like you to encourage them to write and express their thoughts and feelings through written word.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00330803573804263960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5443776659707935381.post-50875670142315752752015-12-26T15:18:44.591-08:002015-12-26T15:18:44.591-08:00Your notebook examples inspire me! As a hs freshma...Your notebook examples inspire me! As a hs freshman English teacher, I've tried to place fewer restrictions on the "what" for kids' notebooks, allowing them freedom to express their responses to reading and words found--reading your post has led me to a goal for 2016: keeping a notebook for teaching ideas/suggestions/reflections to house them in one place instead of random post its slapped on my laptop. ('Course I can always stick them into my notebook!) Thank you. :-)<br />Gretchen Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03294842090447586786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5443776659707935381.post-33609548117568848802015-12-26T07:45:04.713-08:002015-12-26T07:45:04.713-08:00Always looking to meet atidenta where they ate, yo...Always looking to meet atidenta where they ate, your visualizations are greatfor thisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5443776659707935381.post-22760217036045608842015-12-26T07:17:46.830-08:002015-12-26T07:17:46.830-08:00As a teacher, my notebook is vital to figuring thi...As a teacher, my notebook is vital to figuring things out. It (well, they) holds nuggets from reading, or PD that will potentially show up in my room. Units, weeks, semesters of teaching get sketched out in them. My newest one is a poetry teaching notebook with poems pasted in, accompanied by notes for teaching.Mr. Nickersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15240610920610531990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5443776659707935381.post-25277169010557339352015-12-25T10:31:08.915-08:002015-12-25T10:31:08.915-08:00Tanny, You've inspired me to get back to journ...Tanny, You've inspired me to get back to journal writing and doodling. I have good intentions always, but I want to get my students to do more journal writing and I need to model for them. ThanksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5443776659707935381.post-83609448871774547052015-12-24T08:29:07.172-08:002015-12-24T08:29:07.172-08:00Thank you so much for your constant and awe inspir...Thank you so much for your constant and awe inspiring inspiration on Twitter and through your professional resources that we use all the time here on the Prairies of Sasakatchewan! I have sent this post to myself and to my elementary Writer's Club to add another dimension to their passion for writing! Thank you from all of us here at BES!Suehyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17927270561615884854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5443776659707935381.post-89096573640823253352015-12-24T08:06:21.372-08:002015-12-24T08:06:21.372-08:00Tanny, Students in your care are so fortunate to b...Tanny, Students in your care are so fortunate to be encouraged to hold their thinking on a way that makes the most sense to them. Too many times as teachers we fail to allow students to share their thinking in their most natural way. For some that is discourse while others need to organize their thinking. Concept maps are a strategy that helps me the most but unfortunately I didn't discover that until I was teaching others. Thank you for sharing your thinking with us. Maggienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5443776659707935381.post-19367935680648015912015-12-21T18:12:56.530-08:002015-12-21T18:12:56.530-08:00So much of our lives is visual, and your notebooks...So much of our lives is visual, and your notebooks show how that might look for some if we only let them know, or showed examples. Your notebooks are inspiring and such a pleasure to see. Thanks for sharing all that you've done and still do. The bookmobile saved me too!Linda Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14983144542632353870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5443776659707935381.post-35904469678444606582015-12-18T14:11:47.923-08:002015-12-18T14:11:47.923-08:00Tanny I too was that "bookmobile kid."
I...Tanny I too was that "bookmobile kid."<br />I not only went during the school day but also walked to the bank parking lot every week to get even more books at the bookmobile. I got to see your note taking in person at one of our instructional coaches meetings last year. Quite impressive. Why didn't anyone ever tell me that I could have taken notes like this when I was a student? Think of our little kiddos who would definitely benefit from this creative nite taking.Bethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13548059633992217660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5443776659707935381.post-39875876856556847262015-12-17T20:39:06.288-08:002015-12-17T20:39:06.288-08:00Amazing and inspirational. Your book on Comprehens...Amazing and inspirational. Your book on Comprehension Strategies was so influential in starting my School year off with my third graders. I now tell all teachers about that book. Thank you.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13555880884543341330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5443776659707935381.post-49889153791045267422015-12-17T09:14:29.745-08:002015-12-17T09:14:29.745-08:00Comprehension Connections is my all time favorite ...Comprehension Connections is my all time favorite professional book! It is always my first go to! :)Angela Buccherinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5443776659707935381.post-33301079814395065442015-12-14T18:49:58.020-08:002015-12-14T18:49:58.020-08:00I am a huge fan of altered books, both for myself ...I am a huge fan of altered books, both for myself and for students. I feel like I need to investigate more of the power of interacting with content in this way- I know it to be true!Jaclyn Karabinashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05078008189939070045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5443776659707935381.post-62033820382526444782015-12-13T18:49:18.843-08:002015-12-13T18:49:18.843-08:00Your notes are beautiful and inspiring! I think I...Your notes are beautiful and inspiring! I think I am going to start again. What a great way to jot things down you want to remember. Maybe I will even try this with my third graders. Have them keep a notebook handy to doodle in while they learn....things that stand out to them! Thanks for the inspiration!!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11624755872791509273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5443776659707935381.post-37791496932211362702015-12-13T07:10:18.737-08:002015-12-13T07:10:18.737-08:00Tanny, your creativity and ability to think outsid...Tanny, your creativity and ability to think outside the box is wonderdul. I am a Reading Specialist with grades 1 to 4 and am constantly searching for different ways to show kids how they comprehend. This will help me reach more of my learners. Can't wait to hear more about it!Andrea D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07278632615400299506noreply@blogger.com