At Least for Now...No Class Preparations in Order for a While (Breathing Room) - Time to Attend to All the Other Commitments

The last day of school for K-12 teaches, after 180 of them, feels a lot different than the last day of a semester. In college teaching, it's checking on final projects, tying ribbons around the objectives that were to be met, and the pervasive IDEA forms that, I'd argue, impeded student/faculty relationships. Perfunctory. That's what they are...

...while in Rome...

Yadda Yadda Yadda. 

I actually like teaching the last night of class because it was a location to look at multi-modalities, multiliteracies, and potential ways to use digital technology to think outside the box with traditional assignments and assessments. It's crazy the amount of models I have since my teaching days in KY until now, as the potential gets greater and greater. Of course, teaching the entire course via ZOOM, padlet, and Google Docs simply makes it easier to make the case. I'm almost to a place saying this is just literacy...but I realize a majority of teachers are still not breaking the mold of the way its always been. I can be optimistic right?

Yesterday's #VerseLove challenge on EthicalELA was to explore what we are secret expert at...well, I couldn't think of anything but "The Connoisseur of Self-Deprecation." I don't have expertise in anything other than the Kentucky cake, but that is Alice's. It's an easy recipe. So, I woke up and made fun of myself which is always a great time. Enjoy.