Comments on: Slice of Life: Shooting Sparks

By: Jee Young

Jee Young — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:30:09 +0000

Great title! It definitely got my attention. I loved this line: One student gingerly handed me the laptop with the frayed power cord still attached, like passing an undetonated bomb to the Bomb Squad. I could totally imagine it in m head. It seems like sparks are flying in your classroom not only with the power cords but with all the learning you are doing with technology!

By: Kristi

Kristi — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 07:48:50 +0000

Glad the cart wasn’t cause for a school evacuation. Do your students realize how lucky they are to not only have the cart available, but to have a teacher who sees its value and utilizes the technology?

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 02:34:00 +0000

Love how you slipped the self-metaphor in at the end. Sweet!

By: MaryHelen

MaryHelen — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 01:29:18 +0000

Your story lead drew me in. Sparks – you are able to ignite passion in your students.

By: MaryHelen

MaryHelen — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 01:26:05 +0000

Your lead had my attention with the action. I’m glad you are able to incorporate technology into the classroom. Kids so love it.

By: Margaret

Margaret — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 23:53:47 +0000

A trip into the technology classroom is always interesting. We didn’t have sparks flying today, but the printer randomly started printing some other teacher’s weekly newsletter, and she was not a teacher in our school! It made great inspiration for writing, though.

By: Kellylou

Kellylou — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:37:37 +0000

Dude! This brought me back to the day flames literally shot out of an electrical outlet DURING CLASS. Yikes! Thanks for the memories!

By: Ruth Ferris

Ruth Ferris — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:19:19 +0000

What a great slice. From reading your blog I know you spark both your readers and your students. Just didn’t know it was literal. Your writing has such a strong voice.

By: Katherine

Katherine — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:39:46 +0000

Yikes – that would be interesting! Glad you are so invested in technology but good luck keeping it running and in good order.

By: dogtrax

dogtrax — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:58:24 +0000

My guess is that the technology will be used for those things (testing and eval) and not much for classroom experiences, which defeats the purpose.
K