Symbolism

Evelyn Christoph's French class returned today for more experimentation with projection and the TabletPC. As part of the class on poetry, she brought up a picture of a painting to discuss its symbology. Immediately, the students responded by asking "can we just draw on it?" and they got up to the whiteboard and identified with markers the symbols it contained. Then they went back to the poem and used the same technique to locate its symbols. Evelyn described this great teaching moment as a fortunate accident of using the projector to bring richer meaning to the classroom discussion and to provide for greater involvement from the students.