Happy New Year

So not only is it the start of a new year, it is a start to another decade. So now is when I'm going to make myself do more things and follow through with some of the things that I'd like to accomplish. One of which is to write on this blog more frequently (like I had stated in my previous post).

2009 was a year that I would almost completely like to forget. Peyton, my daughter, was the only good thing that happened for me. The year started for us in Westchester Medical Center waiting to find out how Charlie (Grandma's husband) was going to make out after being hit by a car. He is doing great now but it was touch and go for awhile. February landed Joe in the hospital for 3 weeks. He had kidney failure, bi-lateral pneumonia, yeast growing on top of the pneumonia, and gastro-paresis (paralysis of the stomach). He felt like a patient on the TV show House because the doctor's didn't know what was wrong with him at first. My brother also moved to California in February which was hard to adjust to. February I was also disappointed by the fact that I didn't get the full-time job I went for.. which I still believe I should have gotten but was wrongly denied. Oh by the way did I mention that I was pregnant during all this and had really bad "morning" sickness. I quote "morning" because not only was it all day sickness not just morning, but it seemed to be the worst right after dinner. I couldn't even keep crackers down. It sucked!!

I will continue with the rest of 2009 tomorrow since I'm tired...

Starting Again!!!

Getting back into writing. I was reading my cousin's blog and remembered that I had to create a blog for one of my graduate courses. So I thought I'd try again and now do it for myself. With everything that has happened this year, I thought that it might be a great way to vent and let some of my feelings out without necessarily having to 'talk' to someone - since, anyone that knows me knows that I don't really like to talk about how I'm feeling..

So here's to a new start!!! Wish me luck...

Emerging Technologies

I can't believe this class is basically over. All we have left is the final which doesn't seem to be that difficult. We have all learned so much in this course. That's what I like about summer courses. That we can come to class and have everything done at once. There is no waiting to get through an entire 15 week semester. I wish all classes ran this fast and smoothly. It would make it much easier to finish what we need to get done with our degrees. I enjoyed meeting all of you and learning about all the things and ideas that you brought to the class. I also hope that we can all still talk through our blogs to run our ideas past someone. I know that most of us won't have the time to post something everyday like we had to for class, but an occasional blog being posted to let us all know how each of us are doing would be nice. I hope that you all feel the same way.

Have a great rest of the summer and lots of luck experimenting with all our newly learned technology skills in your classrooms.

Michelle

Assure Method

Using the Assure Model for my lesson plan was great. At first I didn't quite understand the format for it, but once I got the hang of it I thought it was one of the easiest formats to use for a lesson plan. I put it in a chart format which seemed to work best for me. Everyone did a great job with their lesson plans.

lexiphanicism

Today's word of the day on Answers.com is lexiphanicism. Does anyone know what is means?

It is the use of pretentious words, language, or style.

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Smart Boards

I liked working with the smart board in the lecture center. It was so much easier than the one in our normal classroom. Learning about the smart board was interesting for my presentation. I never realized that there were so many different brands and versions of smart boards. When people talked about the smart boards that they all used, I thought that they all were talking about the same smart boards. Little did I know....

Power Point

I enjoyed learning all about Power Point. I was always able to get things done with Power Point before by trying this and trying that. Now I feel like I have a real sense of what I am actually doing. I had a lot of fun working on my Michigan Power Point and my Emerging Technologies Power Point. I emailed my Michigan Power Point to my boyfriend's family and told them that they had to have it completed before I get there next week. It will be interesting to see how they liked it since most of them have already been there before and seen most of the things in my webquest.