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You are the tour guide on their voyage to learn! I have been on many tours and seen many tour guides. Some of them talked monotone and seemed bothered by my questions. Some seemed passive and sick of working. Some seemed so freakin' excited that I wanted to take the tour again right after it was done. Which type of tour guide are you willing to be. Your class is like a sports team. You are the coach. If you are bringing a lot of energy and enthusiasm to the table, you will most likely have a team with a lot of energy and enthusiasm. If you want students to be passionate and enthusiastic about learning......then you need to tie your shoes, and dive in. Be enthusiastic. Show them passion. Answer every question with a big smile and a follow-up question. Inspire every student to go a little bit further with their project and with their learning than they normally would have. Congratulate and complement them often. Choose one of your passions and investigate it with them. Tell other teachers, principals, custodians how proud you are of the students and there hard work and tell them to stop in and see it. Take pictures of them working and tell them you cannot wait to show the other teachers how involved they are.

Looks like there is an element of risk of this "bombing" but the key is the teacher enthusiasm and investment of time, encouragement and ability to lead the student with good questions.

I have been pondering this question for some time now. What does it mean to disconnect? We all say we need to. We all believe it's healthy for us (any research out there?). What does it truly mean to disconnect. Jeff Utecht is the teacher for the GAFE course I have been taking - I like the issues he raises here. I feel more comfortable when I am connected I must confess. I did not enjoy being tethered to a network cable while working in my hotel room last weekend. The Internet was so slow I did not create or work on my course work, it simply took too long.

I like this different lens for thinking about being connected.Thank you, Amanda.

Creating instead of lurking...need to start working on my blog again.