A colleague of mine has been following some blogs. A few weeks ago I showed her how to follow blogs using google reader, and sent her a few suggestions. I'm hoping some of them are useful. It was a challenge for me, because her subject area is Foreign Language, which is not something I'm great at.
Last week, she told me she found a great idea on one of hose blogs. She'd been finding a lot of pay activities, but this was the first free activity she'd been really interested in. She tried the program--a site that had a song about conjugation (I'm bad at languages and conjugation is so far out of my depth its not even funny).
It went really well in class. She came up to me at lunch and told me the kids had really enjoyed it (it was popular music, with educational lyrics) and she could tell they were actually finally getting some of the concepts to click with it.
She thanked me.
Its always great to feel appreciated, but I told her I didn't need thanked.
She'd been following blogs. Its not always easy as a teacher to make the time for extra reading.
She'd stepped up to try an activity from another teacher in her own classroom--taking a step towards breaking down the classroom walls.
It's exciting for me to see a colleague getting a benefit out of some of the technology I'm trying to spread. Professional satisfaction :)
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