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Posted on by Dominic Salvucci Musings

Creative Writing

This post was originally posted in my Substack.

I need to get back into writing creatively. I write a lot for work and for my professional development, however I have pretty much stopped writing creatively…for fun…to keep my mind sharp…keep my creativity flowing…and as a form of therapy. 

Wattpad allows me to write on the fly on my phone, so it is more typing on the fly. I sometimes carry and small notepad to jot ideas, and story parts, and poems, and miscellaneous thoughts down. Easier to do when wearing old man cargo pants.

I need to get back to this. To do so, I need to MAKE THE TIME. Let’s see what happens.

Posted on by Dominic Salvucci Cool Stuff, Random Musings, Student Stuff

SketchNoting

I am participating in a PAECT Book Study, the book is Thrive Through the Five, by Dr. Jill M. Siler. At the end of each chapter, she includes a Sketchnote of ideas to summarize the chapter content. I attended a series of webinars through PAECT on Sketchnoting with Sylvia Duckworth, and have shown the concept to my classes. I need to revisit this skill over the summer and utilize it in my classes for my more visual learners. I am not adept enough of an artist to Sketchnote while taking notes, I would focus too much on the art and lose the content. I am better at revisiting the content after I take notes in a traditional format and converting them into images.

I will add this to my Summer To-Do List.

Posted on by Dominic Salvucci Lessons and Teacher Things, Random Musings

Summer 2024

Summer break officially started this past Friday, June 1, 2024. Since then I have been running to catch up with Summer break as family responsibilities, getting caught up with yard work, gardening, and life in general have been first and foremost on my agenda.

As time unwinds, I plan to make the most of this Summer to rest, recharge, and retool. Self-care is important as is self improvement. While I take care of myself, the plan is to improve things for my students, by way of studying various new tools and improvements to existing tools I use.

I hope to journal about this journey here.