Technology

I just came up with a bright idea: a technology day! I think that staff should have one day a week to focus on technology. This could be as simple as a half day every Wednesday to allow teachers to catch up on technology. This could be as simple as sorting out e-mails or looking at their RSS feeds to catch up. This could also be a time to introduce new technologies and ideas into the classroom. Or, even better, a time to teach the older generation just how useful their computers are if they used them more often! What do you guys think?

Create an Avitar!! Use it in your classroom

Get a Voki now!



Hopefully this embedded link works! Go to http://www.voki.com/ to create your own. You can even have the students in your class create a play using these avitars!!

Using a bookmarking site

This is by far one of the most useful creations yet: a community bookmarking site. The one that I use is delicious and it is FREE. On this site you can put in all of your bookmarks, and then you will be able to retrieve them from anywhere, anytime. Yes, you heard right, you can save bookmarks at home and see them at school (and vice versa). This saves you from having to e-mail the site to yourself, or write it down for future use. I LOVE IT!

you can also use diigo. These two sites also allow you to find other people who might have the same types of bookmarks, or TAGS that you do. Then, you can "take" their tags and add them to your collection!

Just thought all of you should know to save time for yourselves. :)

Vacation

What is it about vacation? If you do something exciting, like take a trip, you are exhausted when you get back. Then, you end up needing a vacation from your vacation. but, if you do nothing, then you feel like you have wasted time.

The worst part about vacation is the 2 weeks leading up to it when the kids are all amped up and you are just counting down the minutes!

But, by far, the worst thing is when there is a 3 day week-end and the 4 day work week DRAGS ON FOREVER!

Another Day

OK, since I'm forced to write and it's Valentine's day, what better topic do we have than the holiday itself? I would have to say that I have had many different types of Valentines days: the fancy dinner, the lay low, the ignored one, the lonely one, the one you spend with your parents as a kid and so on. But, I would have to say today was one of the best Valentine's days yet. Other than the lonely Valentine's day, it was all of them wrapped up into one. I was with family, my significant other, we had a nice home cooked meal and we really didn't make it about Valentine's Day. It was just a nice family dinner with little boxes of Valentine's Day candies. I also got to sleep in until 11 too, so that wasn't so bad!

Anyone else?

Resources for French

Below I have a few resources for the French teacher to use to enhance lessons:

Here is a site where you can find French Realia (newspaper ads etc.)

http://www.makro.be/Content/promoties/folders/2/index.jsp

Soccer Lingua (Bring the excitement of France's #1 sport to your classroom:

http://www.soccerlingua.net/

Madame Fifi's creative french lessons:

http://www.madamefifi.com/pages/main.htm

Adopt an escargot (bring the fun of snails into your classroom to inspire the creativity of your students):

http://www.adoptanescargot.com/

French Rhyming Dictionary:

http://www.yourdictionary.com/dictionary-articles/French-Rhyming-Dictionary.html