5/11/2020

Monday, May 11, 2020

How are you today?

My first IRIS bloomed!

I apologize for the hiatus.
 I had some personal challenges, as I'm sure you can understand. 

 Something To Celebrate

Literacy Review 2020 is here - this year in digital form.

Here is the link:

https://sites.gallatin.nyu.edu/literacyreview

Congratulations to all the NYPL teachers and students! NYPL writings

And here are links to the stories written by our three Washington Heights Students from Elke

Gizele:https://sites.gallatin.nyu.edu/literacyreview/?s=frog

Tatiana: https://sites.gallatin.nyu.edu/literacyreview/?s=dear+Russia

Francesc: https://sites.gallatin.nyu.edu/literacyreview/?s=Haiku

All three recorded their own audio for the site.

Michele Persaud also submitted:

What I Learned in Free English Class - Kenji Matsumoto (Riverside)

Ballerina Girl - Marilena Capasso (Kips Bay)

Mr. Rosenbaum also submitted one honorable mention for Wakefield.

Sharnette: https://sites.gallatin.nyu.edu/literacyreview/2020/04/20/hidden-pain/  

TS- Teacher Sandra Ham

 Margherita-  https://sites.gallatin.nyu.edu/literacyreview/2020/04/21/dear-friend/  

SE-Teacher- Jean Choi

Vanina-  https://sites.gallatin.nyu.edu/literacyreview/2020/04/21/like-father-like-daughter-an-american-dream/ 

JMR- Jean Choi

Hansol-https://sites.gallatin.nyu.edu/literacyreview/2020/04/21/surprises-in-new-york/ 

TS- Kathryn Bonn

Beibei-https://sites.gallatin.nyu.edu/literacyreview/2020/04/21/new-york-city-and-mickey/

SE- Terry Sheehan

Marianna-https://sites.gallatin.nyu.edu/literacyreview/2020/04/20/granny-santa/

HP-Sandra Ham

Daniela-https://sites.gallatin.nyu.edu/literacyreview/2020/04/20/half-of-myself/

TS- Terry Sheehan

Lucia-https://sites.gallatin.nyu.edu/literacyreview/2020/04/20/my-first-diving-experience/

SE-Terry Sheehan

Georgii-https://sites.gallatin.nyu.edu/literacyreview/2020/04/13/this-is-my-story/

There are also some Nypl students featured in the author spotlight.  

https://sites.gallatin.nyu.edu/literacyreview/2020/04/01/the-literacy-review-author-spotlight/

Congratulations to all of our teachers and students!

 Something To Check Out

Quickly Create Online Whiteboards for Your Students

In this week's Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week I mentioned a new service called Whiteboard.fi. A few weeks ago I learned about it from Alice Keeler and Larry Ferlazzo. Last week I was able to give it a real try.

Read the entire blog post Here

Have a great day!