A Rare and Valuable Weekend Posting.

It is Saturday afternoon, and I am blogging. This is rare. Because of this rarity, this blog is probably worth alot more than my other blogs. Maybe.

On Friday morning, the alarm went off at about 6:15 a.m.

I did nothing.

At around 7:20 a.m., I decided that I was not going to school on Friday morning. Friday mornings, we have Technology class from 8:00 a.m. until 12:00 noon. Today, the class was going to be working on the creation of personal websites, using Microsoft Publisher. To be honest, I pretty much have the website making stuff down. I have already created a 100MB website, complete with reference materials, personal information, search functions, image galleries and a fully operable online storefront that took credit cards. Whipping out a personal bio webpage sounded pretty easy. My plan was to whip this out in 30 minutes or so, then turn the project in over the internet and then work on some of my PP reading for a couple of hours.

However, I started working on the website stuff in Dreamweaver, the program that my Junior High kids are using at CLP. I got involved in figuring out slices, rollovers and popup menus, trying to jazz up my little webpage. Next thing I look up, it is 11:00 a.m. and all I have done is learn, not produce. Oh, well.

Shannon and the kids wanted to go to lunch, so we all went up to the university and had lunch at Braiden Hall, the dorm across the street from the Education Building. As we were walking in, Mauricio, our Technology instructor, was coming out. I told him that I had to take a "Family Morning," he seemed ok with it. Anyway, for 5.50, Shannon and I got all you can eat lunch and the kids got to eat for free. In addition, you can take "to go" boxes with you, so I took along enough pizza for dinner. Not bad, all things considered.

Emma was interested in meeting "my teacher." We all went over the Project Promise classroom and Terry introduced herself to Emma. It was really cute.

Shannon and the kids took off and we spent the balance of the afternoon with Terry, discussing Planning. We watched a fairly good film regarding "The Differentiated Classroom." Differentiation pertains to the teaching of a varied level of student capabilities in one class. This is of great interest to me, as in my Computer classes, there are some obvious splits in computer capabilities and I need to know how to handle them all.

We ended the afternoon with another discussion of "Person Maps," a follow up from last week. I love these, as I used them alot when working with the Developmentally Disabled population. They are neat tools that really bring out depth of understanding of the true issues of a student. Some others in the class are a little unsure about them.

Now it is the weekend. I have done almost nothing but relax all day.

How was that for value?