Post-NCTE Quarterly Blog
Unless you’re a blogging super hero like Bud Hunt, it’s often difficult to blog frequently when you’re a classroom teacher. My friend Bill Bass and I joke that as classroom teachers we only have the time to blog quarterly. Now that Bill’s left the classroom to help other teachers use technology in their lessons, he’s been able to post much more frequently to his blog. I, however, am still posting very little. As you can see, this is my first post since July.
But I’ve just gotten home from another terrific NCTE conference. Actually, I’ve come home every night of the conference, since I was able to just take the train in each day, but it is now over. The conference was fantastic and, as usual, has inspired me in many ways. Last year after the conference I made a list of all the projects I wanted to do over the next year and posted it here on this blog. It was an ambitious list, and I’m happy that I accomplished most of my tasks. I’ve made a new list of projects to keep me busy this year, here it is:
1. Revive the writing group that I started last year at my old school or start a new one at my new school.
2.Do some research on graphic novels. I’d like to look at how readers are creating meaning with graphic novels. This might end up being a big project.
3. Present a Professional Development Course for my school on graphic novels.
4. Write a proposal for next year’s NCTE or CEL conference. I’m not sure what on yet, but being at the conference this year without any official role was a bit strange. I like being a part of the conference, not just an attendee.
5. Do the National Writing Project at Rutgers this summer. I hoped I’d be able to afford it last year, but we bought a house instead. I think I can do it this summer.
6. Write an article for NJCTE’s journal.
7. Take an online creative writing course from Indiana University.
We’ll see what I get accomplished over the year. I’ll let you know what’s happening in my next quarterly post.
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