Ask “what if?” and experiment to find out

Dana Huff tagged me for the Passion Quilt meme.

The rules:

• Post a picture from a source like FlickrCC or Flickr Creative
  Commons or make/take your own that captures what YOU are most
  passionate about for kids to learn about…and give your picture a short
  title.
• Title your blog post “Meme: Passion Quilt” and link back to this blog entry.
• Include links to 5 folks in your professional learning network or whom you follow on Twitter/Pownce.

My 5 tags are:

• Alfred Thompson
• Janice Friesen, the Texas Malahini
• Lucie deLaBruere
• Julie at The School ofBlog
• Chris Harbeck, Making it Interesting

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As internet phenomena go, lolcats is generally safe for school. The idea: take a cute kitty picture, add a cat-talk caption in a large bold font, then submit to I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER. For example:

LOLcat syntax could be the perfect vehicle for grammar lessons. LOLcat grammar tips provide lots of teaching moments. Check out the grammar possibilities in this list of “how to speak kitteh”:

1) Mis-decline verbs, especially misuse the verb “to be”
2) Misuse gerunds
3) Overuse prepositional phrases
4) Blatant rearrangement of syntax
5) Incorrect plurals and past-tense verbs
6) “noun” your adjectives. (For instance, the adjective “blue” can become the noun “blueness”)
7) Improper pronouns
8 ) Drop the articles (”a”, “and”, “the”) in favor of adding “-age” to the end of a noun
9) Use “younger” words (”kitty” versus “cat”, “fuzzy” versus “furry”, etc.)
10) Use the word “with” inappropriately.

Oh hai! You like make lolcats now? K thanx bai!