Today was the third and last day of our TGC conference. I met so many great teachers and administrators and it was wonderful to finally meet in person the people I had been working with online last fall...In our class today, I was introduced to the iceberg -culture diagram, among many other things. Lots of food for thought.
I am on the plane flying to our first TGC meeting in DC....and I am reading a book about the Philippines called The Green Tiger. It explores the ecological changes in the Philippines over the last 50 or so years. I am struck by this work 'naninibago'. It's a Tagalog word for getting a sense of a new place. I like it so much. Why don't we have a word for this in the English language? It's fascinating. I will use this word more. It makes sense to me.
This summer on our way to England, we stopped for five days in Iceland...As a geology teacher it was awe inspiring and also frustrating..how to take what I experienced back to the classroom? A suitcase full of ash from Eyjafjallajokull? A different sense of geologic time is hard to explain as in New Mexico we work in thousands and millions of years, and in Iceland, years and decades....As I figure out how best to use this blog and website to document my observations in travels and teaching and science, I hope to gain and share ideas. |
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