Quick Post

Good morning!  I see in KC that it is muggy and going to be a hot one.  Not so much here in Philly!  The high today is in the upper 70s!   I have a few spare minutes before my first workshop of the day starts, so I figured I could do a quick tidying up of the blog.

If you didn't notice, I changed the blog design.  It was long overdue.   I really want to try and blog later about my trip so far.  So check back later tonight for that blog.  (That is if I'm not to tired from staring at a computer screen.

I will say this. The ISTE Conference is very much the GenCon for Teachers.  With one exception.  They have already thought out all the worse-case scenarios and have back-up plan after back up plan already in place.  I think that GenCon could take some pointers on that.

So for now I bid you good-bye!

End of Another Year

The last day of school for the 2010-2011 school year is finally here.  By here, I mean Monday, however, my room is ready to go.  In August,  I did a post about my "Monster Room" and how please I was with it.  Here's a refresher of what it looked like.

Here's what it looks like now.  My room is sad and white.  Mainly because it's no longer my room. For my 5th year now in a row, I will have a different room to teach in.   Before long, I will have taught in every room on the Blue Floor at DTA.

I've already moved a bunch of my stuff into my new room, and as you can see in the second picture the teacher that will be in this room next year as already moved her stuff in.  What is left of my own stuff is the nice pile in the first picture.  Today is a half day, which means a release at 1 pm. Monday is the big "World's of Fun" Trip, for those that qualify.   I had 3 out of 19 that qualified.  It will be interesting to see who all shows up for school on Monday who doesn't get to go to WoF.

Even though school is out on Monday, I won't start my summer break until Wednesday afternoon.  I have a big conference in Columbia that I am presenting at.  I'm nervous, but I know that it will be okay.  I'll have to blog about that Tuesday evening.  

For now, I enjoy what little time I have left with my amazing kiddos!

See ya later 2010-2011!  It's been nice knowing you!

365

There's a creative movement that is going on right now, and I'm trying to decide how to get involved.   It's called 365: Make Something Every Day and Change Your Life.  It was started by Noah Scalin in a Richmond, Virginia based artist & designer. He is the creator of the Webby Award winning art project Skull-A-Day. 

I have a friend that has taken this challenge and is doing "The Dragon Project".  She is finding very creative ways to discover dragons for 365 days.   Noah Scalin has a blog were people can post their creative projects. People are doing creative and amazing things from all over the world.

Now I just need to figure out what do to.