Intrepid Classroom » Uncategorized http://intrepidclassroom.edublogs.org What do you want to learn today? Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:55:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Time To Get Started http://intrepidclassroom.edublogs.org/2008/08/19/time-to-get-started/ http://intrepidclassroom.edublogs.org/2008/08/19/time-to-get-started/#comments Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:11:34 +0000 Intrepidteacher http://intrepidclassroom.edublogs.org/?p=45 Hello and good morning loyal readers and members of the IntrepidClassroom. I hope those of you who are back in your real classrooms enjoyed a relaxing and rejuvenating break. For those of you still taking pleasure in the last days of August, enjoy it while you can, because it is time for all of us to go back to work.

I start work in a few days; my new job is working with K-5 ESL students. Working with younger kids is new for me, but I am very much looking forward to working with kids whose only worries are imaginary monsters in the corner of their rooms, as they sleep, not real corporate monsters who are destroying their planets.

I am sharing my new status with you in hopes that you will understand how important IntrepidClassroom will be for me this year; I need some form of activism in my life, and I hope IntrepidClassroom will fill that role. By sharing my standing I hope this online classroom experiment will be important to you as well. Despite what you do in your “real” schools this year, I hope you will make time to touch base and stay involved with the work we are doing here.

We still have a substantial amount of unfinished business from last year, but I am starting to realize that without the threat or rewards of grades and credit, I will always have a hard time motivating you to “get things done.”  I hope that you will prove me wrong this year. All I can do is throw project ideas at you and hope that some of them are completed. I will do my part in making this site a resource for important books, music, and films. So the least you can do is read the blog, but I hope you will take ownership of the work we do here and make this site a productive agent of change.

Please read the first two posts of the year: Introducing Michael Franti and Daraja Academy, and let’s get started on our first full year in the Intrepid Classroom!

]]> http://intrepidclassroom.edublogs.org/2008/08/19/time-to-get-started/feed/ 0 Roll Call http://intrepidclassroom.edublogs.org/2008/07/24/roll-call/ http://intrepidclassroom.edublogs.org/2008/07/24/roll-call/#comments Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:00:02 +0000 Intrepidteacher http://intrepidclassroom.edublogs.org/?p=42 It has been a few weeks since a new post has been written here at the Intrepid Classroom. I thought that the summer would afford us all more time to work on some projects, but I think we all underestimated the power of summertime procrastination. Realistically, I think we are all realizing that it is more important to simply relax and recharge our energy during the summer months.

I wanted to take this time now to state that I have not forgotten about this project and I hope that you have not either. Please enjoy the rest of your summer, and let’s see if we can’t get back on track when school starts up again in August.

We seemed to be building up some momentum before the summer started, so I am curious how many members and readers are still checking in. Please leave a comment and let us know what you have been doing this summer. We can consider the comments as a sort of roll call.

In closing, I have been reading some amazing books that I want to share with you all and I look forward to reconnecting with you all.

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