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Welcome to your personal reflection log for the Historical Inquiry Professional Development. This is a private wiki so that only you and I will be viewing this. Please don't hesitate to be frank.

After each PD session and before the next PD session, please choose **two prompts** from **each Group** and provide a response.

**Group 1**: I expected... I received.... a reading along with the class. I read 3/4 of the article and decided to finish it on my PD 4/4. Well my PD came- as did the phone call from Mike that Riley has strep throat and that I needed to be with her Tuesday. That was when the article never came out of the drawer. I am sorry and very disappointed in myself :(. I learned... I valued... I still need or want to know more about...

After this session, I plan to... As a result of this session, I think differently about... our need to bring history up to modern days and modern ways! It is so true that to engage students in a topic we are so pationate about, we need to bring it to them in a way that they will also be as engaged as I am. Alan was right in saying that if we could teach on a cell phone or iPad or read on a Kindle- kids would be much more apt to participate. As a result of this session, I'd like to try... something the kids can relate to in their hands on ways! In fact, I spoke to Jaci LB (who is uber creative) about an activity to do with my kids that they would think was "cool". She gave me an outline for "Farcebook" which is a spoof on Facebook. I decided to use various Russian leaders spaning from Ivan III to Medvedev. I will send it to you to check out. I thought- hey social networking with czars, dictators, and presidents, what could be cooler? As a result of this session, my beliefs about...
 * Group 2:**