Conferences can be awesome. Professional Development can be awesome.
But as many teachers/adult learners know, TALKING
to us ABOUT engagement, differentiation, technology implementation is vitally
different from TEACHING us WITH engagement strategies, differentiation strategies,
and showing us examples of real live technology implementation.
I attended the Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC)'s
Spring Workshop in Ft. Morgan @Morgan Community College. Wow. It
was the Friday of my Spring Break, and a drive that required me to set my alarm
for a school-time wake up (let's just say there was a 5 at the beginning of the
time), and while it was something I was excited about when I signed up in February, I'll admit I was second guessing it Thursday afternoon. At that point, lesson planning, grocery shopping,
errands, and sleeping all seemed equally as important as furthering my learning.
I'm so glad I went...
Not only was I able to revive and reenergize my push for the end of the
school year, with great ideas to hold me until Technology in Education (TIE)
@Copper Mountain this June, I was able to chat with some awesome librarians and
remind myself how much I love my recent career choice and how much other librarians
rock this world (and more specifically this state). I have got great story time/early literacy foci for my K-2 babies,
and new Web 2.0 tools to engage my 3-5 (pre-)tweens in April, through May, and
even the beginning of June (aak!).
(Oh, and I was able to start taking pictures of Flat Stephanie, who will be joining me on my travels this Spring and Summer as I push region, state, and city studies with 3rd and 4th graders!)
