Thanks, Naomi, for your feedback! The ETAI Forum is a membership benefit of ETAI. It is published three times a year and mailed to all ETAI members. All members are also welcome to write articles for the ETAI Forum. To become a member of ETAI and receive the Forum, get free or reduced prices to ETAI events, and be a part of your professional organization contact Marna at the ETAI office. Join or renew now as membership fees will be rising as of 2011. etaioffice@xxxxxxxxx Tel: 02-5001844 > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: naomi epstein <naomiepstein@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: ETAI Forum arrived today! > > The Forum arrived today and "ignited" a whole chain of thoughts! > > First of all - browsing through the Forum brought back the memories of > the summer conference. I always enjoy conferences but that one was > amazing! I've incorporated quite a few things from lectures there into > my lessons this year! > > Which reminded me that some people wanted copies of pictures I use for > reading comprehension exercises, and I didn't have them in digital > form. I've begun putting them up here: > http://visualisingideas.edublogs.org/ > I'm putting them up with the questions I created for them but you > might want to use the same pictures for different questions. I have > specific students in mind when I create the questions. > > Then I decided to keep this copy of the Forum. I don't usually keep > them (I don't have room!) but I do keep a select few. While placing it > alongside the others I began wondering why I had decided to keep the > previous ones, wondering which articles had attracted my particular > attention. I started flipping through them, putting one down, berating > myself for looking at magazines instead of TYPING UP GRADES and then > picking up the next one. > > That's when I came across a delightful article by Judy Yaron from > Winter 2005 called "Monkey Business in the Classroom" that just > described what I've been battling with all Chanuka week! I want to > look at magazines but should be typing up grades (I've finished > checking the exams), not to mention hanging up the laundry and so much > more! Judy calls it a list of "gottadooz". > > So, maybe we should start a thread on David's ETNI BLOG about how you > all deal with your "gottadooz" list, balancing the incredible task of > being a good teacher and going the extra mile with leaving time for > your family and yourself. I know this is a "burning topic" for me! > > Naomi Epstein > ----------------------------------------------- > ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org > ** for help - ask@xxxxxxxx ** > ** to post to this list - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** > ----------------------------------------------- > > > -- ETAI Forum: etaiforum@xxxxxxxxx ETAI office: etaioffice@xxxxxxxxx (Marna Snyder, office manager) Website: http://www.etai.org.il ----------------------------------------------- ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org ** for help - ask@xxxxxxxx ** ** to post to this list - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** -----------------------------------------------