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While scanning my RSS Reader, the words book and meme, struck me.
Chris Craft from Crucial Thought posted a fast and easy book meme, that you can participate in.
Here are the rules:

Get the book nearest to you. Right now.
Go to page 56.
Find the 5th sentence.
Write this sentence – either here or on your blog.
Copy these [...]

There is a Wordle Meme floating around the bloggersphere, started by GeekyMomma. Here are the instructions:
1. Create a Wordle from your blog’s RSS feed.
2. Blog it and describe your reaction. Any surprises?
3. Tag others to do the same.
4. Be sure to link back here and to where you were first tagged.
I would like to take [...]

Andrea Hernandez from EdTechWorkshop and SkipZ from Integrating Technology in Teaching and Learning both tagged me with the Professional Development Meme that originated from Clif’s Notes .
Directions
Summer can be a great time for professional development. It is an opportunity to learn more about a topic, read a particular work or the works of a particular [...]

Jess McCulloch from The Rise of Reflection Blog has tagged me for The Thinking Blogger Award. Thank you Jess, for taking the time to write a little blurb about each one of the blogs that make you think. I am thrilled that my writing and my thoughts have resonated and inspired someone. Isn’t that what [...]

“Um den heissen Brei reden“- Literally translated from the German to “To talk around the hot porridge”.

There is a similar metaphor in English that is being used in a similar fashion “To beat around the bush“

While thinking about my last post “Unwilling to Make the Effort to Learn” and talking with my mother about the issue of humans’ resistance to change, she used a great metaphor in German.
People see that things have changed and they know that they will need/should adapt. Many still prefer to stand in front of [...]

Another post in my metaphor series.

If you can’t take the heat- Get out of the kitchen – Meaning don’t take on a job if you are unwilling to face its pressures

Sticking out your neck- Meaning taking risks, exposing yourself to criticism

Tirarse a la pileta (Spanish: Literal translation for “Throwing yourself into the pool”) meaning taking [...]

Pam Shoemaker from Yes Tech! and Kevin Jarrett from NCS-Tech tagged me for this new meme, ” Passion Quilt” created by Miguel Guhlin. I am to find or create an image that captures what I am most passionate for kids to learn about.
Participating in this meme is yet another way to be challenged and to [...]

Metaphors have always been used to help understand the world around us. To continue to work on my Metaphor IQ which I wrote about last week, here are a two more metaphors.
CC photo by Cisco
“Like Adam on Mother’s day” when you are feeling alone.
(“Cómo Adám en el día de la madre”; quote from [...]