Is it June yet? Not because I’m wishing away the school year. I’m just awfully excited about getting the chance to speak at this amazing event with some of my favourite people.

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Why are you still here?

First, I got a nicely printed and bound copy of the action research projects I worked on a few years ago with an amazing group of teachers. I guess that means I’m officially published!
Then based on my discussion with my preservice class last night, I had an impromptu poetry slam with my ENG4C class. The things they came out with amazed me! I have to thank one of my preservice students, Brittany L. for sharing some of her favourite examples of slam poetry on her blog. Yes… some of the poems contain profanity but this is a grade 12 class and we critically discussed this.

We’re going to keep building on it,  but here is a list of what my students (ENG4C) noticed about the poetry performances we watched:

One of my students just left class now and said “I just wanted you to know I had a lot of fun in class today.”

“Me too!” I said.

Today was good.

I must confess, I cannot disguise my enthusiasm for this week’s class. Today we’re going to explore some web 2.0 tools and you will have some time to play, experiment, make mistakes, and report back to the class. I hope that this will give you some ideas for your lesson redesign. All links in the presentation below are active.

I may have been a tad ambitious last week. We didn’t get to finish (or really start our jigsaw, although I was able to assign all the topics last week). So this week will finish the jigsaw exercise before talking about comics in the classroom.