#mr bradley

[theouterdark]

Tag: Last Line XIII

Thanks for your patience, @writingmyassoff, @zmlorenz, @erinisawriter, @gottaenjoythelittlethingzz, and @leofailsatwriting, I owe y’all a last line (or more) so here’s an excerpt instead.

The following is from the second draft of Coldwater Sound. I decided to ignore the rules and put up an excerpt.

Rules: Write the last sentence in your current WIP and tag as many people as there are wordsyou’d like.

“Lyle and I are going for a walk after breakfast if you’d care to join us, Ms Livingston. The garden here is massive. Oh how lovely it would be to have a conversation partner. Mr Dean really has done wonders with this little place.”

“Walk? Even in the rain?”

Mr Bradley lowered his paper. A general stirring washed over everyone at the table.

“What rain?” asked Mr Bradley.

“It’s raining,” I said, and then, less sure, “isn’t it?”

“Nonsense.” Mr Bradley stood to part the drapes. “It’s crystal clear.”

“I could’ve sworn I’d heard thunder last night,” I said. “And I had the most terrible dream.”

“I didn’t hear any thunder.”

“Nor did I,” said Mr Milgrim.

“What did you dream about? I imagine a young thing like you must have the most racing dreams,” said Mrs Bradley.

“Funny now I can’t remember, is it always like that for you?”

“Not me, no! I remember them all. Write them down in my bedside journal, too, don’t I Lyle?”

Mr Bradley grunted.

Tagging: @writingmyassoff, @erinisawriter, @zmlorenz, @sassypandacandy, @kibberswrites, @chivalin, @leofailsatwriting, @gottaenjoythelittlethingzz. Tagging all of you back, and some others.

Feel free to participate, if you’d like.

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[erinbradleyworld]

F-Phase Lesson 001: To Write a story using Purple Mash

A lesson that explores writing a story using Purple Mash’s 2Write a story tool. The whole idea is to promote the use of words with graphical representation. We also intend to add some reflective follow up -looking at this lesson from the point of view parents and teachers. 

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Bryneven presents Encapsulation with Purple Mash's 2Logo Coding class

Bryneven Primary offers the coding class -a bi-weekly lesson- on Tuesdays and Wednesdays in the fourth term.

 Here, we promote Tuesday, October 15th 2019:  a lesson on encapsulating (containing) our code in a procedure, and then calling a procedure that draws the main shapes. In procedures, we use lines of code to move the pen in a controlled manner.

 The main discussion of how robotics and human knowledge are related - with its logic, patterns, etc. It is like code that refers to the controls behind the natural movement of arms and legs (cybernetics).

Cybernetics is widely used in the biological sciences: hence my link to brain connections - communication processes and control mechanisms.

 Here I am trying to make a rather brief comparison using processes - in essence, drawing an image - when introducing biological systems (brain and knowledge) and artificial (robotics), remember that participating students are from 8 to 11 years old.

We use 2Logo Purple Mash to learn how various commands can be contained; suitably organized in accordance with well-appointed procedures.

 The lesson explores the repetition -using the square brackets with the sequence of commands- moving a pen. A procedure also engages with the pen up and pen down commands, which move and reposition the pen.

 The lesson explores repetition — using square brackets with a sequence of commands — by moving the pen. The procedure also includes pen commands from above and below that move the stylus.

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Bryneven uses Purple Mash to explore Shape Properties

Bryneven Primary offers Grade 5 students a lesson on October 14th: analyzing the properties of moving shapes, such as color, number of sides, angle of motion, and so on. We explore this by using Purple Mash's Shapes.  We encourage students to experiment - which is the basis of training (experience) to create their own. This comes by doing the challenges of the activity.

We use a button, a timer control to control these functions. This creates a scintillating movement of changing shapes crossing the screen. We do this using the random function to let the computer make the necessary changes.

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Bryneven's Mr Bradley Presents Shapes in 2Logo with Grade 6s

In this lesson we explore how different shapes are related to code. To do this, we build a square with a forward motion and a 90 degree rotation using 2Logo  in 2Simple's Purple Mash.

We identify the code that creates the different shapes, namely the square, the circle and the octagon, as well as the correct procedure.  From this source figure, we experiment by looking at each figure with the equivalent code behind its construction.

Repositioning the pen: using the movement with ‘pen up’ and ‘Pen down’ commands.This provides us with the means to reposition the pen on the screen's x and y axes. Today's lesson is an interesting exploration of translating code into procedures using Purple Mash. We need to see how this opens up huge potential for mathematics teachers. The shape forms are part of the curriculum, which includes the study of the properties of different forms - the size of the forms being indicated in steps.

Mr Bradley is a GDE teacher; working for the department of education at Bryneven Primary School in Johannesburg South Africa. Bryneven primary school has been using Purple Mash for over two years. We look forward to future developments -having more teachers using it in their lessons.

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Mr Bradley, GDE teacher, at Bryneven with 2Animate in Purple Mash with Gr 4s Here we are involved with animation; in a lesson that seems to complement the previous, the slideshow video. As that naturally looked like a 2Simple version of Powerpoint -so: Flash looks like 2Animate, in a 2Simple sense. We hope this video will facilitate Mash's entry into more project work. This is the dynamic movement of pictures that provide the foundation for this piece of work (video); in particular the enhancement of the potential of sharing and collaborating through a cloud dynamic. The Orientation of Mash Mash - naturally builds confidence in its 21st century design - as you can see in the excitement at engaging with the animation tool. We can explore moving images -seeing the pure joy of childhood, embedded in the instrument's design. The Purple Mash site aims, explores and promotes the dynamics of the moving image here; it is a bit of what it takes to animate and lead children to the future of learning and love are synonomously understood. Even for those learners: who have forgotten the tool, for a while: 2Animate -once again- regenerated a great deal of enthusiasm. For example in 2018 we did a short piece, exploring animation -using 2Animate. The piece lets you see how animated gifs are downloaded, via the export button. Purple Mash is a great tool: its simplicity, its child-centred design, its cloud base: all this helps to share and collaborate. 2Animate gives your child a simple tool: new possibilites -to explore animating. Forgot to mention the possibility of adding sound recording to the animated piece. Hope that you enjoy! The children we teach, most teachers -have not yet explored the tools and resources at the bottom of this rainbow. Purple Mash facilitates the heights we aim to project our work (education). Mr Bradley teaches for the Gauteng Department of Education at Mr Erin Bradley teaches at Bryneven Primary School. This is a public school in Bryanston, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. Bryneven Primary has introduced coding dynamics over the years.

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Jury hears driver was "startled" and "panicked" after fatal A66 crash A MOTORIST accused of trying to “avoid detection by police” after a fatal A66 crash was seen “startled” and “panicked” shortly after the collision. Full story: https://www.cumbriacrack.com/2019/09/03/jury-hears-driver-was-startled-and-panicked-after-fatal-a66-crash/

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Mr Bradley: Lesson on Purple Mash Ghosts with Ting-Yun Wang 

A lesson tutorial in which Mr Bradley assists Ting-Yun Wang -a highly talented young learner- who wants to be an astronaut. We try to get through the movement of objects -using the Purple Mash coding blocks.Mr Bradley is a Gauteng Department of Education teacher at Bryneven Primary.  Bryneven is a school in Johannesburg, South Africa. The school is implementing a coding programme -across all the year groups.