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There. Won't your students love you for showing them this? Libraries (and teacher librarians). Are. Cool.
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That sound you hear is the Twilightery hyperventilating. And it's only May...
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Apparently these posters are fan made. Here are a few more, from links found here.
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Apart from anything else, my middle-aged mind boggles a tad at what 'fan-made' can mean with today's technology. Maybe these are by adult Twilight fans, but maybe they're by high school age kids. Nowadays, they could be. Back when I was at high school, there was no way known we could have done anything of this kind. No internet. There was one computer at the school, I think; in a maths storeroom. I gave up 'computer studies' in Year 11 because all it seemed to be about was binary code, and that palled very quickly for me.. The only source of current pictures to even attempt something like this would have been magazines. I don't remember any colour photocopiers. Lettering was something you did by hand, using the guidance of a lettering book or copying something you'd seen printed; or else using a sheet of rub-on transfers that you'd bought. Photography involved film (and finishing the film), and developing, and enlargements weren't an especially cheap prospect.
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And yet, here's part of the challenge: now, we as teachers, who maybe are old enough to remember those days in the seventies, have the challenge and responsibility of teaching kids using technology they've been familiar with 'as long as they remember' and which we come to differently. It's part the way our role is changing - if my teachers at school were experts, we now cannot in the same way be experts, for so many reasons. Not in the same way, but that doesn't mean we aren't necessary, or important, or that we teachers don't still bring to the classroom things which our students do or cannot know.
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All of us in the classroom today, have much to learn. We are all learners, lifelong learners. When I was at teachers' college (some young teacher colleagues spontaneously grinned the other day when I instantly dated myself by referring to 'teachers' college') Education Technology for my GradDipEd meant slide projectors, film projectors, film cameras, fordigraphs. (I think those colleagues may have been in their infancy when I was mastering Education Technology at teachers' college...). And now I blog, and you read, and the world changes, all the time.
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And those posters will still make the Twilightery swoon, just as their equivalent did back then. The more things change - the more some things stay the same!
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Cheers, Ruth.
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PS. Another bonbon: here's a recent interview with Robert Pattinson from The Guardian.
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