Day 7 Who was or is your most inspirational colleague, and why? My most inspirational colleague is… wow… I feel like if I name a name, then I’m excluding all the other great colleagues that have inspired me. I also have so many great people to choose from. But here goes… Susan Martens: Susan started …
What is a mentor? The word is ancient, and actually comes from the name of a person in Greek legends who apparently helped Odysseus. Good to know. When I teach, I call myself a “facilitator” because I see my role in the modern classroom to help my students come to terms with the knowledge that …
I have no pict to share yet, but I have two different classrooms, so I will add photos and reflect on those. More to come. I’m a few days behind, so this is a place holder.
Prompt number four is a good one. A nice open-ended question. What do I love about teaching? I have this strong desire to start off sarcastically right now. I want to make a list of things I don’t love so I can pare down the list to something that floats to the surface. I could …
Luckily, I started this before September, or else I would be two days behind. Labor Day weekend will do that to a teacher-blogger. As it stands, I am writing the third blog on the 2nd day, so I’m a day ahead of the curve. I’m still not sure why I can’t copy and paste the …
What technology do you hope to use this year and what are your expectations? I just learned about converting documents to speech. I think I will make audio versions of all of our Humanities texts to share with students. I also want to make our Humanities packets into interactive iBooks with links and visuals. We …
I’m just going to start this here by posting this link so I can remember how to get back to it. The first writing challenge is to write my teaching goals for the year. What a good idea. Usually, my goal is to live through each day and get to the next. But maybe if …
Just testing out Blogsy on my iPad. Posted with Blogsy
We’re about a week or so away from the start of another school year, so I am shaking the dust off of my blog and getting back into the writing mode. I though I would start with an ode to my new Macbook Air. Here I am in New Orleans reading from the Macbook. I …
Last night I was just thinking to myself how I’ll probably never get to solve a big mystery like Sherlock Holmes. I am pretty sure that most police investigations are rather mundane, and, because most criminals are stupid, there are no clever clues to figure out. So it is interesting to note that I now …