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Showing posts with label spring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spring. Show all posts
Monday, April 1, 2013
April is Poetry Month!
To celebrate Poetry month, I like to kick off my poetry unit with this WebQuest. A WebQuest is simply a step by step of web links for students to go to. In this Poetry WebQuest, students first watch a video of a young girl interviewing a real poet! They then go to a few websites to read poems and research poets. Student choose a poet to write about. (Great for practicing biographical writing and including details!) The WebQuest then leads students to websites and online games to help them brainstorm and prepare for writing their own poetry. Students culminate the lesson by writing their own poems which they can then publish online (on a kid friendly poetry website). I have even included the rubric I use with my students. You can grab this fun WebQuest for $2.50 at my TpT store! Click on the photo!
Friday, March 22, 2013
Taking a Pinterest Approach to my Email
With my attention more on Pinterest and blogging, my email inbox has suffered. My iPad makes it easy to reply to emails as they come, but I have found that I am not taking the few extra taps to archive my emails in their proper folders. So today on my Spring Break, I am spring cleaning my email inbox instead of creating new TpT products, knitting, or anything else fun!
How did my inbox get to be this messy? After reflection, I think it is because I take a Pinterest approach. I allow the most recent things, the things still on my screen to take my attention and I forget that there are other important things buried. I need to be as diligent about saving emails to their appropriate folders as I am about pinning interesting products to their proper boards. I will be making new folders and sorting each and every email today in the hopes that tomorrow I can start fresh!
Hopefully this weekend and next week I will be ready to polish up and publish some blog posts and products!
What are your tips for managing your email inbox?
How did my inbox get to be this messy? After reflection, I think it is because I take a Pinterest approach. I allow the most recent things, the things still on my screen to take my attention and I forget that there are other important things buried. I need to be as diligent about saving emails to their appropriate folders as I am about pinning interesting products to their proper boards. I will be making new folders and sorting each and every email today in the hopes that tomorrow I can start fresh!
Hopefully this weekend and next week I will be ready to polish up and publish some blog posts and products!
What are your tips for managing your email inbox?
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