Valerie Burton's Page

I am grateful for this oppotunity to share. I have adapted a new mantra this year: Sharing is learning and teaching. Sharing is hard but it allows you to see yourself and be insightful.

I have spent the last year taking online courses (Google Earth, Digital Cameras, Pod/Vodcasting, Discovery Education resources, Word Walls, Wiki usage, Intel, etc.), joining social networks (to build up my PLN - my professional learning network), blogging and reading, teaching and sharing, and so on and s… Continue

As I look forward to tomorrow's Freshmen Orientation, I am struck by sooo many conflicting thoughts: Am I ready? and Will I be ready?

Am I ready? No I am not ready but I will be. Well, I will spend the next week getting ready. I have been patting myself on the back because I have my lesson plans done for the next 4 weeks and I do not have that much work to do to my wikisite.

Guess what? We aren't to study short stories as I thought; we will be completing a unit on nonfiction. So what now? As a… Continue