Time

What did we do with our time before the Internet? What did we do with our time before television? What did we do with our time before radio?

This is a question that I ask myself on almost a daily basis. Sometimes I feel so frustrated because my students seem so much different than I was at their age. Now, granted, I was a nerd, but still, I still feel that our generation of students was so much different than the young ones I have now. Kids are so caught up in their TV/video game/myspace/facebook that they rarely have time to do a quality job on their homework. My students have such a difficult time picking up a book outside of the school building.

So here is the big question, do we keep our teaching methods the same, or has our society gotten to the point that we are so wired that we need to adapt our ways of teaching learners on this new frontier?

As a younger teacher, I've always prided myself on my ability to use technology, but now I realize that I do not use technology in my teaching. Yes, I have my students type all their writing....but that is about it. Technologies are indeed are a new literacy and our society is changing, whether we like it or not.

This leads me to ponder this question: are we becoming less intelligent or are we gaining a different kind of intelligences? And the biggest question of all: How do we get our students to value the traditional forms of intelligence while still embracing the new forms?

This is all quite mind boggling to me, perhaps because I experience it day in and day out. Plus, what will we be seeing in 5, 10, and 20 year from now? My head is spinning!

I saw this video at a technology conference last year- it is the 2007 update. Even if you've seen if before, I love it. Shift Happens

Shift happens, teach to the change.

following or stalking?

So I have been following quite a few blogs, but didn't want to put any of these blogs in the "My Blog List" on my page unless I have permission from the blog owner. If you want more folks out there to read your blog, leave me a comment and I will add you to my list. I *hear* all of your blogs!

WTF?!

Excuse my language, but why in the world is today's blog of note actually a blog of note?! My blog isn't great, but there are way greater blogs out there. http://chele76.blogspot.com/

Any blog with more than one photo...heck, even ONE photo from http://icanhascheezburger.com/ does not deserve to win. Does ANYONE out there agree with me?!

Disgruntled.

Also tired from parent teacher conferences. And after it is all said and done, I have to go up and time college regionals in Houghton. It never ends.

apologies....

Alright, I've had a couple of people ask what my time was. Let me clarify, first, however.

I won the race because there was maybe 10 women tops in the race. I am proud of the win, but the time was nothing to brag about. I have a long ways to go in order to get back into the shape that I want to be in. My time, for the record was 50 minutes and a handful of seconds. I wasn't even really sure, to be honest and I can't find the results online. I'm shooting for 42ish, so I need to knock more than a minute off of each mile.

I'm sorry for being a sore winner, I know that many people would love to run that time. I guess it is like Sten used to say, if you put forth your best attitude and effort, that is all you can ask for. It is not fair to act bummed out when perhaps somebody you beat gave it there all but just couldn't match up to you.

I hope this post clarified why I was bummed out. :) Time to head to school for a little while; parent-teacher conferences this week!

race in the snow....

Won a 10k this morning...not very proud of my time, but I can't complain...
























Also, Jane is here and I love her! She does not love my dogs. :(























ETA: Yes, we have baby gates up in our house...Layla is like a child.

back on the horse...

Wait! That's not a horse, it's Rocky! Yes, he is sitting in my lap as I type.

You may have noticed a hiatus from my blogging. Last week was a crrraaazy busy week, and then as a result, I got pretty freaking sick. Pile that on top of 7 IEP's in the next week (#1 tomorrow, which is a big one because it is a manifestation hearing for an expelled student) and then dump being a pilot tester for the MEAP-ACCESS test, therefore having to have sub plans for the person covering my classes...oh yeah and did I mention the fact that I am taking TWO GRAD CLASSES?! AND IT WAS GINA's 21st birthday on THURSDAY!?

Yes. I have an excuse. I also had a hiatus from running Friday-Monday due to my illness. My weekend basically consisted of me doing homework for a half hour and then taking a nap for an hour. I usually don't feel weak and dizzy when I have a headcold, but this one was a killer!

I was especially bummed about not being able to run because it warmed up this weekend. Saturday was overcast, but Sunday was a gorgeous sunny day with temps in the high 30's. Yesterday was more of the same. Today was overcast again, with temps in the low 40's. I was able to get out for a half hour run, but I felt like I couldn't push it any more than that- I'm still feeling pretty wiped out.

Hopefully I don't sound like a Debbie Downer; it has just been that insane!

There probably won't be much in the way of photos. I broke Sam's camera (by running with it in my pocket too much) and mine is pretty crummy, but I'll see what I can do.

still got it

So I was treated to a dose of inspiration yesterday when I went to time the NMU track meet with my father-in-law. Amazingly enough, Northern finally doled out the money to get record boards for track and field. Even more amazing is the fact that I still have 2 records!

I got so pumped after seeing them that I had to go for a run back down there to take a few pics. Who knows how much longer those records from '04 will stand??


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