Treasure Chest of Thoughts

This week during the meeting of one of my peer PLN’s (my Classroom Redesign Team), colleague Lisa Huff mentioned the term tradigital, a word that caught my attention, a quite interesting combination of terms, one that sounds much more interesting than the term I have been touting lately…blend. 

Tradigital?  Blend?  Yes..tradigital sounds much more interesting!

Therefore, I went where most of us go when initiating a search:  that’s right…Google.  When scanning down the list of results, I encountered this link to Word Spy:  http://www.wordspy.com/words/tradigital.asp

Ahhh…very interesting!

Below the “Example Citation,” the owners of this site then list the “Earliest Citation,” followed by “Notes.”

Thus, intrigued, I decided to check out other trendy vocabulary.  Today’s word is peanut-buttering, defined as “spreading the resources of a company or person too thin.”  Peanut-buttering…that word just might describe me!

Will such vocabulary appear on the ACT, SAT, Arkansas’ End-of-Level 11th Grade Literacy Exam?  Probably not in the near future.

I have subscribed to this site’s feed; think I will ask my students to add this feed to their Google Reader.  Knowing some of their busy schedules, I do think that many of them are peanut-buttering also as they sit in our tradigital classroom. 

This, I think they need to know!