4. “Total Physical Response (TPR)” – Top 20 Techniques of WAYK
You’re looking at your “Set-up!”, working to make play as “Obviously!” as possible. You want the “Fluency” your players acquire to apply to the real world. To do so, you… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Techniques
3. “Fluency” – the Top 20 Techniques of WAYK
We want to acquire a new competency, a new target skill. To do so we begin sharing and naming “Techniques” that will accelerate our acquisition of the target skill. The… Read more »
2. “Obviously!” – the Top 20 WAYK Techniques
Once we agree to share accelerators that work through tq “Technique!”, it leads us to tq “Obviously!”: the mother of all other techniques. Every technique in the WAYK system… Read more »
1. “Technique!” – Top 20 WAYK Techniques
“Technique!” is the fundamental structural element of the WAYK system. With it players can name and share the techniques that will accelerate learning and teaching, incorporated as “rules of… Read more »
January Spotlight: Top 20 Accelerated Learning Techniques
When explaining WAYK, we like to say, “There are a million specific ways to accelerate learning. We know 200.” This month we’ll be blogging 20 accelerated learning techniques, one at… Read more »
WAYK Podcast, Episode 40: Irish Night Blues
19 minutes and 25 seconds. [direct download] After several months meeting, the Irish Language night has been facing a series of issues due to an unideal location and a temporary… Read more »
Focus on the Game
It’s easy to forget to just “play the game”, when using WAYK for the first time. The temptation to “remember” and “learn” is always lurking, ready to pounce on an… Read more »
WAYK Podcast, Episode 39: Irish Gaelic Night
24 minutes and 33 seconds. [direct download here] This is the first podcast concerning our weekly WAYK Irish Language Night, with fluent speaker and Marylhurst University instructor Bob Burke. WAYK… Read more »
The Race to “Getting to the Party”
So, owing to our recent work with helping revitalize Ecclesastical Latin at Wyoming Catholic College, Evan and I finally decided to put pen to paper and make a written USC… Read more »
The New, Easy WAYK Video Tutorial
[vimeo 14722295] I really think we out-did ourselves this time – Evan and I finally may have brainstormed a format in which you can easily learn the core WAYK game… Read more »
VIDEO: Fundamental Techniques of WAYK 6
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VIDEO: Fundamental Techniques of WAYK 5
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VIDEO: Fundamental Techniques of WAYK 4
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VIDEO: Fundamental WAYK Techniques 3
As time goes on, techniques are constantly improved or innovated. We’ve recently made a few short videos (below you’ll see the third, click here for the first and second videos)… Read more »
VIDEO: Fundamental WAYK Techniques 2
As time goes on, techniques are constantly improved or innovated. We’ve recently made a few short videos (below you’ll see the second, click here for the first) that show the… Read more »
VIDEO: Fundamental WAYK Techniques 1
As time goes on, techniques are constantly improved or innovated. We’ve recently made a few short videos (below you’ll see the first) that show the current state of an array… Read more »
WAYK Podcast, Episode 38: Abigail’s Antidote
42 minutes and 56 seconds. [direct download] Evan, Peter, and Lisa gather for another Chinuk Night debriefing conversation. 1. Technique “Same Conversation” Peter and Evan collaborated on the conversation of… Read more »
WAYK Podcast, Episode 37: “Overwhelming Grandma”
1 hour, 7 minutes, 5 seconds. [direct download] 1. Technique “Tea with Grandma” Where do you start when you sit down with Grandma? 2. Technique “Start at the Beginning” 3…. Read more »
WAYK Podcast, Episode 36: “Let’s Hunt!”
50 minutes and 43 seconds. [direct download] 1. Technique “the Meadow” 2. Technique “the Evaluation” We give attendees a blank piece of paper to (anonymously or not) give us feedback… Read more »
WAYK Podcast, Episode 35: A Culture of Interaction
39 minutes and 52 seconds. [direct download] 1. Technique “Full”/”Law of Two Feet” 2. Technique “the Meadow” A modification of technique “Pooh Corner”, developed for the SYL conference. A place… Read more »