Keeping up with Twitter

I've found quite a few awesome educators to follow on Twitter.  Great stuff coming out about eLearning and about innovative teaching practices.  Now I've just got to read it all! It doesn't help that I can't follow most of the links at school (where I spend most of my time).   Aaaagh! School holidays will be great for reading and getting new ideas.  I'm trying to get into blogging and I can't get my head around the fact that anyone would want to read it, but maybe it's not about that.  I'm coming to realise I should use my blog as a reflection, I'm going to post a highlight or lowlight from school each day and see how that goes. 

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YES WE CAN (If you apply yourself)

http://www.whitehouse.gov/MediaResources/PreparedSchoolRemarks/ 

Barack Obama's Back to School address to school students.  I like.  I wish I could have these words printed on my classroom walls.  My favourite bits:

...But at the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents, and the best schools in the world – and none of it will matter unless all of you fulfill your responsibilities. Unless you show up to those schools; pay attention to those teachers; listen to your parents, grandparents and other adults; and put in the hard work it takes to succeed.

and

You’ll need the knowledge and problem-solving skills you learn in science and math to cure diseases like cancer and AIDS, and to develop new energy technologies and protect our environment. You’ll need the insights and critical thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more free. You’ll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new companies that will create new jobs and boost our economy.

and 


But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life – what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you’ve got going on at home – that’s no excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude. That’s no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of school. That’s no excuse for not trying.

Love it O.

Monday madness

Monday the seventh of September... very s.l.o.w day.  I think I actually aged three days today.  I am feeling very unmotivated and I for the first time all year I am sick of looking at the computer screen.  The last two weeks of this term are going to drag as the kids are getting restless and the teachers are getting tired of kids. 

All the things I'm excited to do; I have no time for.  AAaaaaagh. Very frustrating. 

Also very sad that I didn't get to go to the SC Expo.  Looked foward to it all year, it would have given me the lift I need to get through this last bit.
Bring on the holidays and some free time.

edu-katie

Some bloke said I should have a blog. So I got one...