Synthesis of Course

This has been an awesome class.  It got me thinking more about how to incorporate reading, writing, vocabulary, and many other things into my classroom.  The assignments gave me a good starting point to work from.  I especially liked doing the vocabulary assignment.  It was fun to approach learning the same words from so many different ways.  That helps me to learn better when I see things from more than one perspective.

I enjoyed the activities that we did in class.  It was nice to have some good examples of what we were supposed to do for our assignments before we had to do our own.  I hope that I can do the same in my class.  I know I always do better if I have a good example to start with.

The text set was fun to collect.  I'm going to keep looking for more to add to it.

I didn't always like reading and writing in my schooling experience.  I know how miserable it can be to have a horrible reading assignment, or an awful monster paper to write.  I still get a bad taste in my mouth every time that I have to read or write something for school.  I hope that I can make reading and writing a positive thing in my class, and not seem like a punishment.

Another thing that I want to do is teach the kids how to determine if a source is reliable or not.  There are so many pseudoscience things out there that sound really convincing, but are really a load of crap.  Sometimes I go searching the internet for these pseudoscience things to see what I can find.  I've found some real whoppers.  I want the kids to have the skills to sort out the good from the bad.