Literacy ~ Room 208

I am blessed to be able to say I have two PLNs… My colleagues that I bookclub with at school, and my online PLN that includes my Twitter friends.   Teachers and Internet users who continually share their ideas and thoughts ~ I read and listen until I am inundated to the point of slight discomfort…

I always tell my students that it is that feeling that lets us know that we are building new knowledge~ new neural pathways… that it gets easier once the initial growth has started… so to all of my fellow teachers and learners, thank you!

Thank you for helping to make me a better teacher… and a better person!

Thank you for helping to make me a better teacher… and a better person!

Today was amazingly busy… Day 5 of RITTI training has come and gone!  I am so frazzled by the amount of tme spent sitting… I don’t think I have ever sat still this long since high school!  Needless to say, that since all of our work is done on a computer… my eyes are fried.  It’s difficult to do any reading at all right now.

I love all that we have learned…its all exciting and fabulous~ but the body resists the “boot camp” effect…

Still reading despite the eye fatigue… still gardening despite the funky weather… time is too short to give any excuse to do otherwise…

Anyone who knows me… KNOWS that I love working on the computer, on the Internet.  This RITTI training experience is akin to Tech Bootcamp~ truly puts the trainee to the test.  I have never spent so many hours on a computer…while everything I am learning intrigues me (learning does make me truly happy), I am fatigued from the thinking and the sitting in one spot.

Today I worked on the wiki I started yesterday… it is just starting to look like something~ Hopefully it turns out to be a success.  If so, I would NOT hesitate to incorporate it into our classroom.  Eyes and brain are tired though. I still need to do my homework before heading upstairs

Day 3 coming to a close…

I am so tired that I am almost in a daze! RITTI is a wonderful challenge to all of the senses

Today, we signed up with Thinkfinity for training (which starts tomorrow)… and I started a wiki for the very first time, (2 actually to see which I like.) I put in some serious time with my lesson plan ~ which I still have to put time into before going to bed…and was introduced to the Polyvision Ino Board.

While I am not quite comfortable with the concept of wikis… I will continue to pursue it over the next week and a half. The Ino board is fabulous… just doesn’t meet my needs at the moment since I am working with a SmartBoard. It makes more sense to focus on replacing the ancient computers in our classroom. We have two that are beyond tired~ plus, I am psyched about the possibility of working with an Elmo projector.

Day two has come and gone… Tired, but content. Sharing and learning are both phenomenal~ but nothing beats meeting a challenge!