Does Suite101 Imitate Life? Or Does Life Imitate Suite101?

Posted by Alex Sharp Jan 10, 2009

As I started my Creative Problem Solving unit with my gifted students, instead of flipping back through my notebook, I used my own Suite101 article as a reference. Very handy! Meanwhile, one of my co-workers was using my NPR idea in his classroom, and his students were really excited about writing about the activities; one of his students said she just loved the idea. That has been exciting for me.

Next week we are actually taking a break from problem solving to prepare for the inauguration. We will watch some historically significant inaugurations (and aren't they all historically significant?) and I will hopefully get some of our activities up on Suite101 in time for other teachers to use them. I have them planned out (in the aforementioned spiral notebook); I just need to type them from my little shorthand note style into something coherent to others.

On my Kindle, I've been all about USA Today. It is fun to read it e-book style. One article about dramatically dropping literacy rates inspired me to think of ways to get teens reading -- and I subscribed to a magazine for my own child. I'm just practicing what I preach!