This blog has been sitting dormant since six years.
Six years. I can hardly believe it.
Well, to be honest, it was created for a set of classes I took during my teaching internship and its contents related to activities performed and engaged in during said internship. Of course, that era is long gone, and I've just cleaned out a few empty blogs, then deleted.
However, I couldn't bring myself to delete one of them without saving the contents, because they are a record of what I thought and was learning at that time, and I still believe those words to be valuable to my learning experience, even if I find, for example, I've grown beyond some of them, or learn other methods that "outrank" them, or just prove more efficient or student friendly.
And then on to this one.
I think this one might have been my favorite--no, forget that, it was my favorite, because it involved real children and not just textbook representations. Well, another one did involve children, children I grew to love so much, though at that blog also was discussed much theory and it was not until later in that year--not written about in the blog--that I was able to implement what I had learned in a more natural way, without reflexively and constantly flipping back through pages.
Looking back at this blog, however, I was brought back in time, to a period in which I was huddled with children and their "friends" (a collection of soft-toy "classmates") and we laughed and cried together as we explored books and how they intersect in the events of our own lives, and how these events color our perceptions and reception of books. And how books can open us up to a lot more…
I won't be blogging anymore at this location, but have updated and incorporated one of the entries into a blog I currently run. You can access that entry here. That particular blog, Before the Second Sleep, has lots of book reviews, which may interest you, as well as other areas of interest. Two of note that might pop out are a pair of series I'd launched--one newly minted and one becoming revitalized following a recent cleaning off of my plate: "A Novel Exploration" and "Bonding with Books."
I'm hoping also to utilize all or at least most of these entries in a similar fashion, and would love to see you join us at the new blog.
Happy August!
Six years. I can hardly believe it.
Well, to be honest, it was created for a set of classes I took during my teaching internship and its contents related to activities performed and engaged in during said internship. Of course, that era is long gone, and I've just cleaned out a few empty blogs, then deleted.
However, I couldn't bring myself to delete one of them without saving the contents, because they are a record of what I thought and was learning at that time, and I still believe those words to be valuable to my learning experience, even if I find, for example, I've grown beyond some of them, or learn other methods that "outrank" them, or just prove more efficient or student friendly.
And then on to this one.
I think this one might have been my favorite--no, forget that, it was my favorite, because it involved real children and not just textbook representations. Well, another one did involve children, children I grew to love so much, though at that blog also was discussed much theory and it was not until later in that year--not written about in the blog--that I was able to implement what I had learned in a more natural way, without reflexively and constantly flipping back through pages.
Looking back at this blog, however, I was brought back in time, to a period in which I was huddled with children and their "friends" (a collection of soft-toy "classmates") and we laughed and cried together as we explored books and how they intersect in the events of our own lives, and how these events color our perceptions and reception of books. And how books can open us up to a lot more…
I won't be blogging anymore at this location, but have updated and incorporated one of the entries into a blog I currently run. You can access that entry here. That particular blog, Before the Second Sleep, has lots of book reviews, which may interest you, as well as other areas of interest. Two of note that might pop out are a pair of series I'd launched--one newly minted and one becoming revitalized following a recent cleaning off of my plate: "A Novel Exploration" and "Bonding with Books."
I'm hoping also to utilize all or at least most of these entries in a similar fashion, and would love to see you join us at the new blog.
Happy August!
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