November 9, 2009

Yep, I am behind again; nope, I have not been procrastinating; I have been busy. I am ready to catch all up this morning--sorry about the colloquialism. Today was an in-service day. Supposedly, we were doing a grad project from Brazil, but there was some confusion about the time; it is scheduled for tomorrow. I worked on various projects and problems the rest of the day. I am teaching two classes tomorrow and have several meeting scheduled to talk about future endeavors. I am ready..............flick

February 13, 2009

Like I said I am getting caught up. We had in-service today, and I did a presentation on Promethean boards. The main purpose of the in-service dealt with the looking at the data from the preliminary testing. The data looked good and that is a credit to a lot of people. My presentation could have been better. We lumped people who had experience with people who had none. This is not a good move, and in future in-servicings, I will separate the groups so I do not have redundancy for those who have more experience. I am also going to have trainings per department to help alleviate all of this. I know some people learned some things; therefore, it was successful. Hagoone' for all of my Navajo readers...........flick

January 26, 2009

In-service days are one of those things that a teacher has to do; some are great; others remind you a visiting the dentist and no novocaine. I believe that this one ranks up there by being quite good. Does not rank as great so I guess that means the previous polarization is a misnomer. I attended a seminar on learning focused and brought my plans for the 13th to meet the format. I also worked on Embedded Learning to bring that up-to-date, and I worked on the presentation for the 13th. I also scheduled a Photostory presentation to a media class for Friday. I will get that done. Tomorrow is an Atomic Learning lesson for business. The continuation of ghosting is ongoing. Tomorrow is also the start of the new semester, which will free me to do more in the classroom. With my last blog, I alluded to a problem, and I have now solved that problem. I am happy with the resolution, and I am sure that somewhere down the road there will be a conflict with it; I will be ready. I guess it is my rebellious nature from the 60's and 70's. Well, I am off to work with embedded learning and found out some answers.................flick

January 23, 2009

Finished the week, and I did make it. Started the ghosting process of the laptops. They should be done sometime next week, and I can finally get them out and be used. I have been tagged to do an in-service on Feb 13 on the functions of the whiteboard. I also have to model it using the learning focused concept. I will begin the preparation for that on Monday. I also have the embedded learning class ready to go and have released them for Monday. Not all of the teachers have signed up, and I will have to go and talk with them individually. I will also have to get the books out to them and create another class for the math group. I have no facilitator for that group and may have to fill in there. I also have to address an issue which I have thought very diligently upon and am ready to act on it. No details, this is just for my recollection. That sentence will keep ya guessing. Well, it is time to wrap up another week. Have a great weekend...........flick