The summer is halfway gone...as soon as we celebrate the 4th, I have to start looking ahead to the coming school year. Usually that means that wonderful "I am free" feeling is starting to fade. The start of a new year is always exciting, but I often feel as if I have to be dragged into school. It's not as if I don't like teaching, I do, but the best parts of summer for me is the lazy early mornings, where I can read as long as I like and write and the late nights, usually messing with photographs in photoshop, neither of which I can continue doing during the school year.
I am thinking of some new ways to teach the classes...better organization, more pertinent content, how to incorporate more creativity into the projects while still maintaining some control over the groups. This year, my classes are bigger than ever, so some thought will have to be given to classroom discipline. My classes can easily slide into chaos if I don't keep a tight reign on them.
In my campaign to always keep the creative fires burning (sorry for falling into cliches) I have begun writing posts for ecotimes online newsletter for my friend Ann. The newsletter is a centered around trying to be as environmentally friendly as possible.It's a fun way to keep writing and exercise my funny stuff...meaning that I have to try and keep the posts light and witty, not fall into the somber serious vein that so many "green" articles do. So far, it's been fun and I am learning a lot about living a little more earth friendly.
