i am exceptionally tired of crashing my machine with a frozen printer spooler.
just finished a lesson plan on summer reading, which doubles as a lesson plan on persuasive writing.
i must have a zillion things on the desk that i need to get through. feedback would be so much easier if writers were all at the same place. with so many submissions in so many different places in the system, i’m feeling very scattered.
so inspired by my failure to finish things, I finished a list of ten on informative writing prompts and i think i’ve updated my online vita to include everything.
now i get to figure out what they changed in blogger and try to decipher the teeny tiny new fonts they’re labeling things with (someone should have tested this on a mac). at least i have harry potter to keep me company.
well, i gave up on that javascript and turned my attention to coming up with a proposal that will get me to MTU this summer. as a result, i had to look at all the stuff that i’ve started and not managed to finish. i so need to focus. you’d think that i’d manage to finish something.
do you ever go through all those old files you saved from when you were teaching, say, 10 years ago? i was looking for what i thought was a persuasive writing assignment this evening. it turned out to be an analytical/classification paper. what i found was more interesting though. i realized that before i ever knew what things like technological literacy and student-centered pedagogy were i was focusing on them in the classroom. okay, sure, i found some very odd and embarrassing stuff—we all have strange grammar exercises stashed away somewhere don’t we? i’ve managed to save piles of copies of things too. apparently at some point, i thought that i’d use that same peer review sheet or sample essay or invention exercise again; so i saved all the extra copies. going through this pile of stuff, somehow, i still couldn’t part with all the extras (or the grammar exercises). i’m not sure exactly what i need them for, but it feels a bit like an archive that i shouldn’t change. besides there’s proof in there that i knew things before i knew i knew them :)