Without a doubt, it has already been a challenging year with a 5.6 earthquake on the first week of school and a hurricane during the second week of school, a multitude of schedule changes, false alarms, club meetings and project, faculty and departmental meetings, and being active with the local teachers' union.That's just to outline my professional life...not to mention my personal life. This explains my lack of new posts on my blog (forgive me!).
So it's has indeed been busy! However, I must say that this school year has been quite invigorating as I have been blessed to attend several meetings, workshops and have just met wonderful people who have inspired me and gave me wonderful tools to use in the classroom.
There is one supplementary instructional tool that I learned about that I believe that all secondary-level teachers should check into to enhance their students' thirst for learning: Edmodo. Yes...Edmodo. Edmodo is the academic equivalent of Facebook with practically the same format, color scheme, and functionality. I have already begun to use it and I am looking forward to assessing the increase in student interest and motivation.
So check out Edmodo at: www.edmodo.com! More posts are to follow as this school year is beginning to stabilize (I hope) and my "free time" visits haphazardly. :o)
