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For the little people known as kindergarteners...

Today I will begin blogging about my adventures, learnings, and thoughts towards teaching. My experiences in education are not as vast as some others, but I believe they are valuable. I believe in our children, even those who are often seen as unlikely to succeed. I thrive when I see young people growing and learning in unique and exciting ways. My hope for all of my students is that they learn at least one thing while they are in my classroom...I want them to know that, "They are special, and they CAN learn". So many students that I meet day to day have been told that they can't, I want to share with my students that they CAN and they WILL. There is a moment, when you have been working with a child for a while, when all of a sudden you see the glimmer in the child's eye...the moment when the child realizes that they have had success. It is these moments that drive me to continue my learning as an educator...it is these moments that get me through all of the challenges I face each day in the classroom.

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Pinterest...best thing since...Stumble Upon

Okay, so, as a teacher I am ALWAYS looking for new ideas. Problem is, I never remember them! Lucky for me I received an invite to join Pinterest.com. Never again will I have to worry about forgetting those super great ideas. Why? Check this out!

Heidi Buffa (heidibuffa) on Pinterest

The idea...if you see something you like, Pin It. Once you have pinned it you can place it into any category your heart desires. Then, when you want to go back to it just pull up your homescreen and take a look. So easy! Pinterest even lets you write a description for your pinned pictures. It gets even better...you can look through pictures that other people have pinned, giving you even more opportunity to find even more great ideas!

Combine Pinterest with Stumble Upon and you end up with the perfect opportunity to not only find some really exciting new ideas, but the chance to actually remember them down the road. (This site is seriously an organizers dream as far as web searching goes!)

If you are interested head on over to www.pinterest.com , it may take a bit to receive your invite, but once you are invited it is very easy to set up!

For those of you who do not know what Stumble Upon is, well, it is basically a web browsing service that takes a survey of your interests and the provides an endless supply of websites that you might be interested in based on the answers to the survey. It is fun to click the stumble upon button and see what comes up next:)!

Have fun exploring the WWW, friends!

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