TMI

Too much information. We live in the information age, but sometimes it can be too much. In my school, the previous years teachers send "Notes to Next Year's Teacher" and we get them at the beginning of school. I really have a rough time with this because I know that they are just trying to help us by giving us some information. I usually try to ignore them for a few weeks until I can get a good idea of the kids that I have. This year I couldn't because many of the notes had issues that would need immediate attention, like IEPs and 504s. I was worried that it would completely jade my view of these kids. I was told to look at them, and I did.

I read them and was not surprised, that some of these kids would need a lot of help. I was afraid that I would have a preconceived notion about these kids. I really try not to judge and I am glad that I didn't. These kids are amazing. Moral of the story: Don't judge. I hate when people judge me. Do you feel the same way? How do you deal with judgement?

New Beginnings

Well after using blogger for our 5th grade class newsletter, I have decided to start using it for my personal and professional blog. I'm not sure why I used wordpress to begin with, but here are some reasons why I am making the switch.

1. I tried to set up our blog on edublogs and found it very clunky. It is owned and run by wordpress, so it makes sense that they are so similar. I was just very confused by many of the features and found blogger more user friendly.

2. I haven't really used wordpress that much lately. I use my google reader everyday and I hope that this will sync better and will lead to me using it more.

3. I love everything that google does, so I hope this won't disappoint me.

So here it is my new beginning. Kinda lame, but I have to write something for my first post.