Underway

Well another year if underway and we all feel the excitement. My Globaloria students are excited to be learning about blogs and wikis. Yesterday we watched the Presidents speech and they all attempted to make a blog about it. I saw that we will be working on what should really be in a blog, more than just we watched the President. But I see that we will make strides in this class as we go along.

Flips are fun

Funny thing happended on the way to the fair......

Day of Excitement

I love to watch the students on the first day of school. Some so sure of themselves and others very shell shocked. I stood watching the as they walked in the front door, the excitement was overwhelming. The upper class men swayed in knowing finally it was their turn to be the big dogs on campus. The 7th grade had a clam look on their faces, they were not sure if they should be happy to see their teachers and hug them for fear of blowing their cover of being "cool". The 6th grade, well what can I say about them, looked like little lost sheep with no sheep dog to guide them. All in all a pretty good day. Day one of sanity we will see what tomorrow holds.

BLOGS.....My interest

The blogs I chose for my list hit home to me. The first is stroke awareness. My best friend, at the age of 35 had a massive stroke what they call "stroke in the young". I believe they call it this instead of 'we don't know why in the hell someone this young would have a stroke' to make people feel better about it. Every day activities that I used to take for granted are things she can not do for herself. Clapping at a ballgame, laughing at a joke, typing with two hands on a computer, or just having a conversation with more than one person at a time.

The second blog I have added was Special Needs Kids. I am fortunate enough to have just about every special needs student go through my class in a school year. Luckily my tech ed class is a hands on class and 90% of these kids succeed in this type of setting. However, this is not the case for these kids in other classes. I hear teacher complain everyday about having to provide 'modified' assignments for these students. ".Wow" you mean do our job and make sure every child gets the concept we are teaching. I stand up for these kids when other push them aside, they all have so much potential if we as 'adults' would just give them the opportunity.

End of Year

Well to say the least this has been a very interesting and exciting year. We got off to a slow start but have gained power to enter into next years program. Students this year were somewhat of a stuggle because of the varity that were in the classes. Some really wanted to learn others just used up air. Next years class will be better because we have met with them and they have chosen to be in the class. I gained alot of knowledge this year and can only imagine what the students will teach me next year.

March 23-27

We are rolling right along. Students are working on their game pages and updating wikis. We have been working in flash looking at tweens, buttons, and navigation. We will be focusing more on completing our main pages to the games this week and seeing more of where our games will go.
The weather is finally changing for the better but in Greenbrier County you never know when it might snow. I remember having 3 feet in March before. We'll wait to see where this goes.....

3-2 to 3-6

This week we will be coming up with game ideas and begin making our prototypes. I am excited to see what this group of students will come up with. I am sure there will be some creative ideas.