Another day of a lot of information

Well, I thought I was overwhelmed yesterday, but it doesn't even compare to today. Today we learned how to create a digital story. Don't get me wrong. All of the information I'm learning seems very practical and I hope to use it all in the classroom. My problem is that I feel like I am learning things so quickly that I wont remember what to do when I come back to it. Hopefully creating these different activities will help me to remember what to do later on down the road.

Last night I created this narrative about my morning routine during the school year. I really enjoyed writing it; however, I figured out today that the narrative will probably not work for my digital story. We watched a few sample digital stories about the countries that former students are from. Originally I wanted to create a culture quest about Minnesota. I was told I couldn't do this. After seeing the digital stories about the different countries, I have decided to create a digital story on Minnesota. I just started the opening paragraph, and I am pretty excited about this. Most of my students (actually most New Yorkers) know nothing about Minnesota. So, I am going to educate them on some of the aspects of Minnesota that they might find interesting. See you tomorrow.