OK, I admit it. Someone just asked me about my blog and I thought – what blog? It has been since last August since I sat down and felt the urge to write. But in reality I had been writing, just not online. I have been immensely busy in my life with many other things and honestly had not been inspired to put words down on electronic paper. So here I am again thinking and reorganizing my thoughts. I have put together all of the past entries on the year that was the transition to the PBL in our geometry class. They are archived into the “Transition to PBL Entries” which can be searched by tag, if you like. I will still be using those entries in my workshops and hopefully they will be useful for people who will be making that transition as well. I still hope someday to use those entries to put together some sort of journal or book that might be useful about the process itself.

However, right now as my colleagues and I move forward in the editing process, we are working on integrating the technology (the labs, the SMARTboard use, etc.) into the curriculum more and more, and I feel my focus is leading me in that direction. The students this year have come such a long way with the problems and we are more than pleased with the classroom dynamic, the learning process and the curriuclum itself. Some other goals I have are to use some type of visualization software to create a curriculum map (which some of my particpants last summer asked me for). I will be offering courses again this summer if people are interested, let me know by posting a comment.

Another immediate goal of mine is to begin garnering support to begin work on another level of curricular reform. I’m not sure which course, but I’m hoping perhaps Algebra II or Trigonometry. This is an extremely skill-based course at our school, which many students find very dull and repetitive. If anyone has any insights on which level might be better I’d like to hear that as well.

I have a renewed sense of interest in this discussion as my graduate work is getting more serious in the upcoming years, so I foresee my blogging getting revitalized as well as my excitement about technology. So hopefully, I will keep this up a little bit more!