Eight more days

Winding down the school year...only 8 more days!!! Yea! And, to top it off, seniors were done on Friday. That makes life so much nicer. But of course, there are always some who have to come back; doesn't matter what year it is.

'Til the end of the year...

NETA conference

I have found so many cool new tools while at NETA in Omaha. In fact, I'm going to use one of them below.

When I return on Monday to school, we will play the jackpot to see who is celebrating Marvelous Monday.

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Have a fabulous day. I'll try to add an additional post later in the day if the internet is working better--guess that just adds to the addage that if the technology is only as good as the system.

Snow Day

Here it is, the 31st of March and I'm at home because of a snow day. How great is teaching?!

Busy next few weeks as the school year wraps up. I told someone yesterday that if we were able to get a snow day today I would be productive and a) bake cookies, b) finish orders, c) take a nap. So far none are done, but it's not even noon yet.

Maybe I'll modify & bake a sheetcake pan of cookie bars, group my speech scripts into a lump sum amount that I can order next year, and still get my nap.

If anyone is free this weekend we will be celebrating Josh's birthday. You are more than welcome to attend! Maybe I'll even post pictures later this weekend. ;)

Facebook changes

So with the recent flurry set forth by Facebook, this is as timely and relevant of a topic as I can find while we are discussing persuasive speaking, as well as communicating in general.

The kids read an article from The Washington Post, as well as the follow up blog by Marc Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO. They also scanned the articles regarding the same topic from Business Week and Wired.

I guess the gist of what's out there is again back to the old adage, don't put anything out there you don't want your grandmother to see. Too many people aren't too smart and don't realize that the internet is constantly creating archives, so even deleted stuff really won't be gone.

Impact of technology

Technology affects our lives in so many ways. For instance, within a matter of an hour, I received an email from my mom and a text from Hayden that told me that Brooke & Adam's new little girl, Sidney Marie, was born. Also, my brother, although a little slow, also gave me the info. (side note: Yea! finally another girl to buy for!)

So not only does technology help bring great news, but it also aids in teaching. Gone are the days of typewriters. Also gone is the need for reliance on snail mail and fax machines for communication with speech coaches. Email and websites do much of the work for us.