Friday, February 15, 2008

Thoughts on this tool

**Post your thoughts about these new tools and how you might use them to extend your knowledge or with your students

In response to this: I hope to engage students more by opening up lines of communication, improve writing skills, get more personal with them, and introduce them to new and useful technology tools all at the same time.

Here we go--

Alright my lovely students. When I received your feedback for my personal website and my moodle site, you mentioned that I should have a blog. Do you really want to get inside a teacher's mind? Here's your chance!!!

Thoughts from yesterday, February 14, 2008--Valentine's Day

1. Paper Scrolls were due for 3 out of 4 classes. I must say, after sorting the piles with help from such beautiful children like Brenda P., Teresa T., Edelin M., Franciso M., Carlos R., and Cinthya P., I realize how magnificent my student work is. Kudos to all the Leopard Sharks who spend a tremendous amount of time and effort on their work. I think we should host a day to judge who's is best and submit it to the district Art awards.

2. I'm excited to go to Catalina but I bummed more Leopard Sharks aren't going. I feel like the teachers weren't really included in the process and therefore we didn't really talk about it much.

3. Only bummer--I gave up a day off--yes, teachers like the holidays as much, if not more, than students.

4. Keep up to date on politics: We're down to 3 possible presidents--Obama, Clinton, McCain.
Who would you choose and why?

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This is the first time I've ever used a blog. Life is pretty uneventful when working on a Master's degree with a full time teaching position. I love the new technology but trying to squeeze having a life in it all is tough. It's been many years since keeping a journal of sorts, not since I was traveling and feeling free. Hopefully this will get better with time:)