It was great to have the long Labor day weekend, and I got to have coffee with my former student teacher, who is now starting his first year of teaching. I felt well-rested starting the week, but by Friday afternoon I was wiped out and could barely keep my eyes open past 8:00 in the evening!
Still, there were some good things that happened this week. First and foremost, my trek up the chain of command, which I started last Friday, produced results right away on Tuesday. Just as I predicted, after about 20 minutes of work by IT during my prep period, my iPad document camera was up and running!
Hallelujah! So nice to see you, old friend!
I have still been warned that I will have to give up my iPad in October so I need to keep working on a long-term solution. The document camera I have been considering writing a grant for is on sale right now at Amazon ($85 instead of $99), so I may just buy it myself with money I earned last summer doing curriculum development and (hopefully!) be done with this annual source of frustration.
In other good news, there were lots of stars for 90% or better on the German 1 vocabulary quiz:
and I have my Marzano scale up as well
so the whole back board now looks like this
In German 2, we tried Past Participles Speed Dating for the first time.
Two out of three classes loved it! 4th period was less impressed, but I think a few people in that relatively small class (20 instead of 30) were just sort of grouchy that day, which set the mood for everyone. Ah well, you can't please everyone all the time.
And German 1 tried Learning Apps for the first time on Friday.
So, when I look back at it now, it was a tiring week, but a lot of good things did happen. Happy weekend!
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