Support Structure

In Kajder's last chapter I loved her statement, "Engaging students in new literacies practices with digital media requires not only creativity and ingenuity on your part as teacher but a support structure that helps to move you through the work" (104).  I felt that her section on page 102 best defined what Kajder meant by support structure.  She discusses NCTE and the conferences they hold that provide learning opportunities for teachers.  I agree that a teacher must always be learning by networking and working "alongside professionals you respect to keep growing your thinking" (102).  I also believe that as a teacher, it is natural for the learning process to continue.  However, this natural learning process only goes so far.  I agree with Kajder that it is up to teachers to grow their learning even further past the classroom.  I think that it is vital teachers visit websites such as englishcompanion.ning.com to further learn multi-modal activities for their classrooms.  Even though I do not plan on teaching at a high school level, I will definitely be taking Kajder's advice and looking into conferences like NCTE's conferences to keep my learning juices going.