We’ve been making a lot of music over the years and I figured out that we hit our official ten year anniversary for this group in January. Actually I’ve been blogging since 2003 but the archives only go back to ’07 due to losing stuff from the old blog. So Happy Anniversary, everyone!
A few of us were actually here in January of 2007 and never left. That’s kind of cool, to have kept up a relationship online for ten years, talking back and forth over all these years. This is from the first post, from January 16 of 2007:
…if new teachers, in their efforts to satisfy some kind of benchmark on some pacing guide, forget the kid, they will never effectively teach the benchmark anyway. The kid will only do enough to pass the class, and they won’t acquire much, leaving the foreign language profession with business as usual. Unless kids are brought emotionally into the class, with all their magic and light, teaching becomes just another mechanical exercise in left brain boredom….
(The comment count for the ten years is 49,531 for those watching that number. (Remember that whoever posts the 50,000th comment gets free lifetime membership.)