Tangential Learning Video

My students seemed to enjoy the video on Tangential Learning by Daniel Floyd.  One of my students had already figured this out.  Check out his blog post.

Friday--at last!

This has been one of the longest four day weeks in history!  Monday was an IS day and students were not present and Parent-teacher conference was from 4-6 p.m.  Yesterday we took students to the Business Ethics competition at the University of Charleston.  It was nice to see so many teams there.  Unfortunately, our team didn't make it to the final round.  We had the opportunity to sit in on a session on accountants and found out that the demand for accountants is expected to grow 22% through 2018.

Almost the end of the first 6 wks.

It is difficult to believe that it is almost the end of the first six weeks already!  I have been so busy that it is just starting to sink in.  Where has the time gone?

As usual, I am behind with my blog posts again.  I just need a few more hours in the day.  I'll try to do better!

Honoring 9/11

It hardly seems possible that it has been ten years since the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center.  It was impressive to see the patriotism displayed at the many memorial services.  The flags flying in the the sky and the memorial in New York is proof that the United States is still a great nation!

Up and running

It has been a busy 2 weeks but I think we are finally up and running.  At first there were 3 users that could not get their wiki pages created.  After a little trial and error, that problem was worked out.  Everybody was able to get their blog created although some did not post their first blog entry. 

The long weekend is greatly appreciated!  I need extra time to get things done!

A blogging we will go . . .

The students created their blogs today and I believe that everyone was successful.  Now they need to copy their blog address into their information so they can click on it from their page.  Once we get that done, we can create the blogroll.

Welcome!

The time has come for you to join the Globaloria Community!  You are about to embark on a new type of class.  I hope that you enjoy this year and learn a lot of new skills along the way. 
I look forward to working with you and maybe even have some winners in the game competitions this year.

Here we go again . . .

Well the summer is officially at an end and school starts tomorrow for me.  The first few days are always the worst.  This will make the second time in the last few years that they have renumbered our rooms.  Just when I get the number memorized, they change it!  Oh well, I'm sure that there is a perfectly good reason why they did it--we just don't know what it is.

Down to the wire

I have tile on my floor--it is even waxed!  I am just waiting now for the heating/air conditioning people to finish duct work in my ceiling.  Then I have to put my room back together and set back up all of my computers.  Why can't the beginning of a new school year be less stressful!

I am looking forward to our training next week!

Time is speeding up!

This summer has gone by so quickly!  Monday is August 1 and we begin school on the 17th.  There have been a lot of changes this year--retirements, building updates and new requirements.  My room still does not have the tile on the floor.  That will probably get done sometime this coming week.  Then comes putting everything back where it belongs and getting ready to "hit the ground running".

I have enjoyed my time off and it makes me a little grumpy when everyone starts saying, "You'll be starting school soon!"  Hopefully we will get a lot of time to get our rooms ready.  After I get adjusted to the fact I have to go back, my frame of mind gets better.