Se Hace Camino Al Andar

Hey, hey, hey. It’s Sunday morning and time for another edition of Days in Sentences, so put down that Sunday Times and peruse these links instead.

Kate was busy in Brisbane this week and invites you to “Wonder, watch, listen, talk, link” as she podcasts AUC Create World 2008.

Gail says “Energy levels are definitely on the rise as the winter approaches,” and invites you check out her latest blog post, but check out this tweet she recieved this week, from her friend Mr. Losik out of Fennville, Michigan. It’s pretty neat!

Kevin joins us this morning with this epiphany:
We were sitting there in the two hour session, hammering out a conversion of our report card system to one that is standards-based, when it dawned on me that very few of the things that I value in my work with students — multi-modal composition, connecting with the world, cooperative group projects, creative vision, social action — would end up being reflected in this new report card (nor is it reflected in the old report card, either). Check out this cool graphic from Edutopia that Kevin’s shared in his latest post.

Mathew has the new year in mind this week, being “full of optimism at the coming year and the conclusion of this one.” He didn’t leave a special post for you to check out, so here’s his blog.

Anne took a whirlwind international tour this week! She writes, “As reports have been completed and our school year nears its end, it was time to ‘play’ with virtual classrooms and connect to so many wonderful different countries – Antarctica,Russia (ending up on Russian TV),USA,Bangkok and the Phillipines to give my students a realistic taste of a flatclassroom. ” You can read all about it!

For Ken, a slideshow is worth 1000 words and so is this lovely, brief poem:
wings over island
rocks break clear- water, foam, white
sails, dazzle, beyond.

Bonnie is bursting with pride, as she reports, “This week for me, has been all about getting to yesterday and watching my 8th grader of old, Christopher Carley push Clint Eastwood in GRAN TORINO. I am reading the lead article in the Sunday NY Times Arts & Leisure section and its continuation on page 13. And yes, that’s my boy! What a joy it is to teach and patiently wait sometimes, to reap the rewards.” She didn’t leave a particular link for us to read, so go ahead and read her latest post.

A greeting from Gail:

Hello Nancy and DIAS community,
The high part of my week was being invited into 3 fourth grade classrooms to introduce these young students to the blogosphere – which has me thinking about my last week’s post.

Ms. George better be careful– payroll might hear her say, “Getting students’ toes wet with poetry by reading, listening, and writing makes me realize yet again how I have way too much fun to get paid.” She was probably having so much fun, she couldn’t narrow it down to any one link for you, so go have a good time at her blog.

Have you ever heard of a Slowblogger? Me, neither but T-Dawg is “Slowblogging on a snow day.” He explains it here!

And though I’ve forgotten time and time again to submit my own DIS, it’s kind of hard to forget this time. So, we can sum up my week with the *cough cough cough* that has been a constant refrain around here, thanks to Alice’s cough and cold. In between all the *cough cough cough*, I managed to write a bunch of food-related posts this week, like this one.

Thanks for joining me, everyone. You can go back to the crossword now and refill that coffee mug. Unless we hear otherwise, DIS is back at Kevin’s blog next week!

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