A Week to Rest and Revive

Finally Friday is here! We have next week off and time to rest and recharge our batteries. The time will be well spent. I plan to do a little Christmas shopping, catch up on grading papers and look for fun activities for my students to do in class. There will also be time to work on our team game for January. Hopefully, my daughter will have her baby this week too!

Seeing Clearer Now

I had cataract surgery yesterday. It was quite an experience! The patch came off today and the doctor told me that after a few days I could have the right lens in my glasses popped out and replaced with glass. It is really amazing the advancements that have been made in medicine. If anyone is considering the surgery, it was not painful at all!

If I had to relate a powerful learning experience from my past, I would have to say when I visited Denise Stalnaker’s classroom to observe. She had been teaching Digital Imaging and Web Page Publishing and I wanted to add these classes to our curriculum. I observed her students working on web pages, animation files and viewed the pictures that her students had to take for a competition. That event took place five years ago. Since that time, our FBLA students have placed at the State FBLA Conference just about each year and last year we had our first National FBLA winners in Web Page Development.

I have a feeling that the next powerful learning experience will be the Globaloria training. The following video was taken during the training session.

I'll try the links again!

Darfur Game link http://www.darfurisdying.com/

Free Rice link http://www.freerice.com/

Evaluation of Games

I played Darfur is Dying game and it dealt with a refuge that is fighting for survival. It was a good game in the respect that it is a true situation in some locations. I would have liked for it to involve more than someone running from a truck. This is a link to the game:
http://http://www.darfurisdying.com/


I agree with msheppard that the Free Rice game is addictive. I liked the fact that it worked with vocabulary. I would have liked shorter rounds. This is a link to the game:
http://http://www.freerice.com/

Link to Braxton County Board of Education website:

http://http://boe.brax.k12.wv.us/

New Challenge!

I am excited to be a part of the WV Globaloria initiative! I know that my students will enjoy learning to create video games. I am not sure what kind of game I will make, but I think that anything that has to do with preventing germs from being spread would be a good topic right now. I am apprehensive that I may not be up to the challenge.