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December 6-27, 2025: Winter Art, Christmas Art. Dreaming Big for 2026!

December 6-27, 2025: Winter Art, Christmas Art. Dreaming Big for 2026!

Ian Gardiner
AI Drawing with Prompts, Pictures, Stories, Winter, Writing, Dreaming Big for 2026, Winter Art, Christmas Art, Painting, Drawing
Lanifah Quynh Dao and Kathryn Nguyen with ice skates on. Toronto, Canada December 21, 2025.

Image credit: Kathryn Nguyen

We are now in our 2025-2026 Winter Session and will celebrate the month of December with Winter Art—our theme for December 2025 centers around your appreciation of Winter Art.

Our final week of the Winter Art session is dedicated to Winter Art itself. If you want to share a photograph of how your neighborhood looks at this time of year, that will be great!

You may also write or draw about what dreaming big for 2026 means to you! For example, you might dream big about winning a competition, about writing an epic tale or composing a hit song; or about you painting or drawing a masterpiece!

We will look at several examples of winter art that are online, and I will be looking at depictions of winter in nature around where I live, but I also expect students to share their own paintings or drawings of Winter Art with the class.

If Christmas Art appeals to you, then please share it with the class!


You can look at my small Christmas Art and Winter Art Photo album here.

I am NOT an artist, but I will use AI to help me turn one of my photos from my recent trip to Canada into a Winter Art scene.

That’s it! We are focused on Art for all of December, 2025.

If you want me to put your creation on the screen for everyone to see (because I use a PC and not a smaller phone screen), then email your work to my secondary email address: igee2016@gmail.com

Intercultural Communication Workshop 1

Intercultural Communication Workshop 1

Ian Gardiner
Communication, Discussion, Essay Writing, Intercultural, Vocabulary, Writing

Image credit: Pearson Education, Inc. © 2012

What is intercultural communication?

Definition: Intercultural Communication is when people from different cultures effectively communicate with each other in verbal and non-verbal ways.

Our workshop today will be led by Dao.

Dao will lead some activities to ensure everyone understands the concept of Intercultural Communication. For example, the class will study the image above and make some educated inferences about the people in the image: What might be the background of the people in the image (country of origin, ethnicity, profession, languages spoken, etc).

So please be proactive and engage with us ^-^

April 5, 2025: Student Prompt Writing and ChatGPT Management

April 5, 2025: Student Prompt Writing and ChatGPT Management

Ian Gardiner
Vocabulary, Vocabulary Lists, Writing, Using AI in Essay Writing, ChatGPT

Student with Robot assistant

Image credit: Preparing Students for Learning Alongside AI Systems

The purpose of this week's session is to teach students to focus on prompt writing. A secondary goal will teach students how to use the tools available to check ChatGPT for accuracy.

Dao, Eric, Aries, and myself will supply the theme sentences for each run of ChatGPT; students will supply the prompts.

Students will prompt ChatGPT to write paragraphs using our vocabulary lists at igee2016.com.

Students will refine the answers that ChatGPT produces by writing and refining their prompts.

This process of refinement will continue until the student is satisfied that ChatGPT produced a result that matches the intention of the student given in the prompt.

September 21-October 12, 2024 Fall Sessions

September 21-October 12, 2024 Fall Sessions

Lanifah Dao
Discussion, Vocabulary, Writing, Artificial Intelligence

Get Al to write at least 1 paragraph (up to 10 paragraphs) composed of 8 sentences and no more than 30 sentences that contains 3 to 5 new vocabulary words for an English learner at 1 level above beginner.

I recommend using Google docs so that you can easily highlight your chosen vocabulary words and use the built-in functionality to find the definitions with just a few clicks!

Robot child image credit: unsplash

The House of Wisdom Ngôi Nhà Trí Tuệ New York: Assignment for May 25, 2024

The House of Wisdom Ngôi Nhà Trí Tuệ New York: Assignment for May 25, 2024

Lanifah Dao
Discussion, Writing

The assignment for May 25, 2024, the last session of the school year before we begin the House of Wisdom English Teachers and Students Summer Series, involves looking back to the beginning of this year and sharing your thoughts on our weekly gathering:

Write at least 1 paragraph, using AI if you'd prefer, about what you liked and learned from our time together at the House of Wisdom New York for 2024.