Comments on: Your wild and precious life http://futura.edublogs.org/2008/02/02/your-wild-and-precious-life/ technology, libraries, and schools Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:29:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: gregg http://futura.edublogs.org/2008/02/02/your-wild-and-precious-life/comment-page-1/#comment-1646 gregg Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:33:03 +0000 http://futura.edublogs.org/2008/02/02/your-wild-and-precious-life/#comment-1646 Wonderful post! If our focus is the future without regard to the present, to the moment we are in, does it follow then that we diminish or lose our future? As always, Carolyn, your posts are thought provoking....thanks. Gregg Wonderful post!

If our focus is the future without regard to the present, to the moment we are in, does it follow then that we diminish or lose our future?

As always, Carolyn, your posts are thought provoking….thanks.

Gregg

]]> By: Some Comment Carryover « Chalkdust101 http://futura.edublogs.org/2008/02/02/your-wild-and-precious-life/comment-page-1/#comment-1645 Some Comment Carryover « Chalkdust101 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:06:25 +0000 http://futura.edublogs.org/2008/02/02/your-wild-and-precious-life/#comment-1645 [...] her latest blog post, which I recommend, “Your Wild and Precious Life,” Carolyn uses the slogan from Mabry Middle School as an example of how to phrase a key principle [...] [...] her latest blog post, which I recommend, “Your Wild and Precious Life,” Carolyn uses the slogan from Mabry Middle School as an example of how to phrase a key principle [...]

]]> By: Patrick http://futura.edublogs.org/2008/02/02/your-wild-and-precious-life/comment-page-1/#comment-1644 Patrick Sun, 03 Feb 2008 13:40:29 +0000 http://futura.edublogs.org/2008/02/02/your-wild-and-precious-life/#comment-1644 Carolyn, I wanted to thank you for writing this. It's timely, beautiful, and spot on. You forced me to think of the moments, both in and out of the classroom, where I have been moved by the career I have chosen, and how they have formed my perception of that career. You exposed a raw nerve here to anyone who claims to care about education whether they be a classroom teacher, administrator, professor or policy maker, because no one is immune to the wonders of life. It's only those that neglect to celebrate and be changed by them that fail to feel their effects. Coming out of the weekend at EduCon, I felt there were so many posts I wanted to write, and reading yours just stirred a few more. Thanks again for providing this. Carolyn,

I wanted to thank you for writing this. It’s timely, beautiful, and spot on.

You forced me to think of the moments, both in and out of the classroom, where I have been moved by the career I have chosen, and how they have formed my perception of that career.

You exposed a raw nerve here to anyone who claims to care about education whether they be a classroom teacher, administrator, professor or policy maker, because no one is immune to the wonders of life. It’s only those that neglect to celebrate and be changed by them that fail to feel their effects.

Coming out of the weekend at EduCon, I felt there were so many posts I wanted to write, and reading yours just stirred a few more. Thanks again for providing this.

]]> By: Doug Johnson http://futura.edublogs.org/2008/02/02/your-wild-and-precious-life/comment-page-1/#comment-1641 Doug Johnson Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:51:24 +0000 http://futura.edublogs.org/2008/02/02/your-wild-and-precious-life/#comment-1641 Wonderful, wonderful post, Carolyn. My best days mix confusion and wonder! I'm convinced that the "winners" in life are those who will have the best stories to tell in the nursing home. Workin' on it. Thanks again! Doug Wonderful, wonderful post, Carolyn. My best days mix confusion and wonder!

I’m convinced that the “winners” in life are those who will have the best stories to tell in the nursing home. Workin’ on it.

Thanks again!

Doug

]]> By: diane http://futura.edublogs.org/2008/02/02/your-wild-and-precious-life/comment-page-1/#comment-1639 diane Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:34:14 +0000 http://futura.edublogs.org/2008/02/02/your-wild-and-precious-life/#comment-1639 Carolyn, We all need poetry in our lives, whether it be expressed in words or images or music. Thank you for sharing both the poet's vision and an educator's translation of it into classroom practice. Don't know if you caught all of my tweet the other night, but I also love these two poems by Richard Wilbur, "The Reader" and "The Writer" http://tinyurl.com/yt693r If I can't create such poems myself, I can at least savor and share them. diane Carolyn,

We all need poetry in our lives, whether it be expressed in words or images or music.

Thank you for sharing both the poet’s vision and an educator’s translation of it into classroom practice.

Don’t know if you caught all of my tweet the other night, but I also love these two poems by Richard Wilbur, “The Reader” and “The Writer”
http://tinyurl.com/yt693r

If I can’t create such poems myself, I can at least savor and share them.

diane

]]> By: Kate Olson http://futura.edublogs.org/2008/02/02/your-wild-and-precious-life/comment-page-1/#comment-1638 Kate Olson Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:15:49 +0000 http://futura.edublogs.org/2008/02/02/your-wild-and-precious-life/#comment-1638 My experiences in web 2.0 and within my interactions with my PLN put me back at square one every day - I'm constantly in the beginner stage and it invigorates me. I try something new on a daily basis and learning new tools and applications has given me an entirely different outlook on how my students must feel when encountering the things I'm teaching. Thanks for putting this out there and making me think about other ways I could "live with amazement". My experiences in web 2.0 and within my interactions with my PLN put me back at square one every day – I’m constantly in the beginner stage and it invigorates me. I try something new on a daily basis and learning new tools and applications has given me an entirely different outlook on how my students must feel when encountering the things I’m teaching. Thanks for putting this out there and making me think about other ways I could “live with amazement”.

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