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Let me take a break from folding the laundry that’s been sitting around for two days (I’m a shabby housewife, I am) and tell you about the first day (or evening, rather) of the NYCWP Tech Retreat.

I really should be posting this over at Inquiry but I digress. We’re a relatively small group, with a range of teaching experience and comfort levels with technology. We got things off to a slow start as we waited for group members to arrive. In the meantime, everyone got settled in, registering for Trailfire and signing up on the MyNYCWP site. When most of the group had arrived, we relocated to a regular classroom for introductions. We asked members to share their current technology situation, as far their respective schools go and what they were each interested in exploring. Then, it was back to the lab to write Classroom Stories, a category on the MyNYCWP discussion board. We asked members to recall a time when they taught writing well, in their classroom.

Think of a day when you were really teaching writing well. What were the students doing? What were you doing?

After publishing their Classroom Stories to the site, we broke for a delicious dinner of middle eastern food (falafel, pita, salad, hummus, baba ganouj–all around good stuff!).

After dinner, it was back to the lab for more writing, working on profiles and posting reflections to the MyNYCWP Google Groups discussion page.

All in all, I think we got the retreat off to a good start.

[composed and posted with ecto]

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