We've looked at some interesting curating sites today. I've been adding lots of links to my Diigo account, so that I can access them this school year and share them with my colleagues. I hope to be able to use Exploratree with my students this year to cut down on paper and to create more class graphic organizer collaboration pieces. Of course, we'll still use our giant hands-on Venn-Diagram, but this will be another tool I can add to my teaching "toolbox". I am interested in delving a little deeper into LiveBinders since I have so many physical binders for all of my teaching units. I got to revisit my old NetVibes page and update it some. I had forgotten all about it.
Look at that shelf. Such disarray. That's kind of how I felt around mid-August. Pulled in too many directions. On overload. In need of a bookend to hold me up and set me straight. (or, in need of more time in my day) One week, I tried staying no later than 4 PM, and leaving undone what I couldn't accomplish, but that was stressful, too! I currently spend around 30 minutes everyday, either during classes, during planning, or after, afternoon car duty, to keep all of the books shelved. I'm doing a better job of preventing the shelves from looking like the one pictured above. (We've had 3 different moms come a collective six times to volunteer to help with shelving. Yay for Mrs. Stratton, who has come back multiple times!) I implemented a new change this year, to allow 4th and 5th graders to re-shelve their own fiction or everybody/picture books. That has helped! I also started a 5th grade program called "Castle Apprent...
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