February Thursdays

I attended a workshop earlier this week on Differentiation and Visual Literacy with Technology Integration led by Lynell Burmark. She was excellent. I decided to add the puzzle link below. It will take you to jigzone.com, an old favorite site of mine. Lynell spoke about the need for images and the proper use of images in teaching. There was so much to it, I can hardly get into it on a February Thursday, just minutes before the start of Lost. But I enjoyed it immensely. She had me from the beginning with a discussion of making a 'Snickers' of the standards--taking all of the good stuff and making it all happen together. She related this to the standards and the technology where so many standards and the technology we wish to integrate are taught in isolation, bit by bit. But like a Snickers bar, where the chocolate and the peanuts and the caramel and the nougat would be yummy individually, aren't they so much better all together? Yum! A woman after my own heart...

Thursdays in February are generally cold. We hope for Friday afternoons as we cuddle in our comfies on the couch. We wish for the weekend with warm socks and quiet nights and good movies. We're tired and drained, but hopeful for an end to the week.