Incubation
As I sit down to write this, I wonder what stage of the creative process I am in. Incubation, feels wrong. It implies that something will happen, that the possibilities will birth into something that I can create and share. Maybe I am in the evaluation stage, , or reflection, of the new practices I tried this year. I feel a bit like a failure. I started a lot of things in my class. Most of the ideas came from other cadre member's blogs but I did try some things from my RSS feed. Some of the ideas worked with different levels of success. I should try to focus on the successes. I went from a paper based classroom to a paperless classroom. Instead of grading labs, students completed check-ins online. This has been an awesome change. Students receive feedback in moments rather than days. They know where they are at in their learning before they leave the class that day. This is a use of technology in my classroom that feels not only permanent but integral to the class now....