8/30/07 School Days, WOW!!!

August has came and gone by so fast. At work, we had to get organized and set up schedules to meet our student's needs. It would be nice if the admin. could set up one whole day aside to set up schedules, another day to organize, and then another whole day for preparation. The student atmosphere has been positive so far, although our staff is new. We had an energetic younger staff last year, and this year they have been replaced with older people. You can tell the difference in motivation, because our younger staff trained them well last year, and it's gonna be hard for them to keep up. We already are having a hard time finding a student council advisor for this year. I'll leave it up to your imagination.

As for home life, I have been busy putting away fish and boxing up my things for renovation they are going to do on my house. They already started leveling the house, and it's going pretty well so far. I just hope they start on the extension before the first snow fall.

Home Again, Home Again

I am home again, home again. It's so nice to be home again. Although my son claimed to have cleaned and cooked, my house needed major cleaning when I got home. I had to adjust to the quietness of my home town and for some moment I felt out of place because I had gotten use to the hustle and bustle of city life. Today is my back to work day. I work after school hours and this summer I was assigned to summer school, three weeks after and three weeks prior to the start of school. Altough I am two weeks short of when I was suppose to start, I think I can arrange something with my school administrator. Hopefully, he'll understand why I was gone. I would like to welcome everyone home and wish everyone a new school year, wherever your home again might be.

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Week's Reflection

Hi Everyone,

I am so impressed at how much information and technology we were exposed to this week. I think I will be more effective in doing my presentations in other classes as well as teaching in a classroom. Now, it's up to us to keep practicing and using this technology because our students are so computer savvy these days. I also wanted to mention that I saw so many great movies made by all of you.

During this week we have made movies, power points, and discovered websites that are going to be useful in our field of work. I have seen students use the blog system in English classes to share their papers and information. Flickr is going to be so useful in our photo world because it will keep our photos organized and ready to use when we need them.

Inspiration/Powerpoint Day 2 Reflection

The other day we made a Powerpoint and an Inspiration document that teaches our students how to make a chart, and how to search on Google. It was so neat, because when I was done with my documents, they didn't look like I even made them. They are so fancy, and so visual that my students will definitely understand the point I'm trying to make.
The one thing I would like to try is to have everyone follow along on the first try and on the second try to have them work on their own projects. I wasn't too impressed with my topic on "George Washington" on my Inspiration project because it was too broad. I should have been more specific, like "George Washington on US Currency" or "George Washington's Early Life" etc.
I am looking forward to using the applications in my classroom, and learning more from this class as well.

Waqaa Everyone!!

My name is Sue N. I am from from Atmautluak, Alaska. I have two kids, Aaron 14 in two days, and Esther 7. I am an Elementary Ed. major and hoping to teach in LKSD with in a year. I am very happy to meet everyone in my class, and to have learned so much within the last week.