I am sitting here on Sunday afternoon planning my lesson for 9th grade English tomorrow. I HAD the perfect plan before, but now I cannot use it. The class I took on web 2.0 social media gave me this great idea to use glogster.com in my classes. I was even more excited when they introduced Glogster Edu for teachers and students. This version wasn't even blocked on our school computers. However, because our computers are slow or have superhero blocking programs, none of the text will load on the glogs. Everything else works except for the text. I can't have my students make glogs about the parts of speech if they can't type anything on them!

Therefore I am now working on Plan B - and I can almost guarantee that it won't get nearly as good of a reaction as glogster would have. I thought I have found a great motivating lesson and now I'm worried my grammar unit will be much like those I have taught before - boring, anti-motivational, and unauthentic.

Hopefully I will be able to get something figured out to make glogster work before we start our mythology unit when I was planning on using it again.