Google, Doodle, Poodle, Noodle

Here goes a set of new puns and rhymes all the way through the end of week 2. ABCs and noodle-doodles. Are you serious?? YES! Things really turned out to be serious.So did my burning eyes. I challenged myself to three different blogs because I had so much to reflect upon, but I couldn't. I was just able to finish my first blog this week 4 hours ago (1.30am),and now goes my second one (almost 6 am), and again my kids are hustling on my bed trying to figure out how to build a 123 puzzle as I was trying with the ABCD puzzle. So we are not different after all.

This week was though; admit it dear friends! Or was it only for me? I like giving a certain identity to one of the classes I teach. I really enjoyed going on a noodle tool ride, because the ride paid off in many ways. I was looking for green ideas to tackle with my students in story hours, and I wanted these notions to be web-based. I found Podcasts : a full explanation of how to integrate podcasts to stories and books one reads in class, and in depth explanation of each step so that students can work easily. That was a first for me. A new "aha moment".

The week passed, and I had to put a certain identity to a class of mine. While identifying one of my classes, I understood the goal of the task. It was another "aha moment", an 'epiphany' that signified unexpected perception. I realized that the task was not just another assignment to explain it to our mates, or to be able to describe a class easily to a certain audience. It was a situation we were put in to see where our classroom stands, and to make us observe the different objectives our classes can achieve, having in mind their backgrounds, levels, and abilities with the most recent tools provided from the school. I saw that my class and I are standing on a very firm ground where everything is provided to them. I even shared this realization with them.

Coming to ABCD method of stating an objective, it was a first to me too. I just tried, applied, moved, chopped, created, and basically fought to come out with a brief, unified objective,and I couldn't believe how I finished with the final draft to post it to the room provided. I had to be done with it.

Reading a lot this week, following so many threads and links, and opening doors to new rooms and sites, igniting the engines of new searches made me all 'noodley-doodley' if I'm allowed to put it that way. However when I look back, week 2 was eventually a cool one for all the new results we get, for all the fresh prospects we discover, and for the several pleasant "aha moments" you get to be struck with. Let's not forget week 2 was an amazing outlet of thoughts and concept from a very dull wedding ceremony!! Congrats my friends we just survived week 2. You made it successfully, with all your limbs attaching to your body, to week 3.
Enjoy your new week guys!

Eugenie