I can't believe how time gets away from you sometimes. I had planned on commenting on a more regular basis about things as school goes on through this year as I progress towards the end of my career and retirement.
Right now May 21 seems a long, long ways away as I deal with too many deadlines and adults. Right now I'm having a great time teaching but it's the adults that are getting in the way so I'm holing up in my classroom and making progress and getting the year off to a great start.
First hour is Accounting and the kids are really doing well and catching on, much to the chagrin of others. They are not assumed to be academically good. I'm working to prove otherwise. Sewing is good and we're learning basic skills and fabric and patterns and are planning for our future projects. Microsoft Office is a big class and it's been a bumpy start but I think they're settling in this week. Keyboarding is so boring for me as a teacher, and add to that the majority of the class is ninth grade boys. I'm sure you get the picture but I'm pleased and impressed and they are really digging in. Customer service is small, only four students but we are having great conversations and good work. So busy with all this that I haven't used my Web hour to get much accomplished on the school website but the list is surely growing. I think next will I'll have to really settle in to that.
I was looking through pictures that I had uploaded to my phone a while back and ran across a throw-back to the past and decided that I needed to have an update. That is what you see here. The top picture is my classroom as is looked 18 years ago. Old IBM PS2s with either dual floppies or a small hard drive and a floppy connected by a token-ring network. The bottom picture was taken just last week. One computer probably has more memory than all of the old lab times two or three and no floppy drives and with flat screens. Gone is the overhead projector replaced by a program to demo over the network. Times have surely changed. This lab is the fourth set of computers I've worked with in this room and the fourth upgrade of software so it's never been a dull moment.
And only 128 days to go.
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Looking at your classroom brought back memories of our first home computer. We had a TRS 80 Color Computer, with a "chiclet" keyboard, and a cassette tape drive. It had 16K memory and we upgraded it to 64K! Boy have things come a long way!
I remember taking typing (not keyboarding) in grade 9, and the boys in the class were there under protest, but appreciated the skill later.
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