My intention was to follow up on my last post with reflects and thoughts about teaching last year; as one of my professors says, “sitting under trees and thinking about killing giants,” but I never had a chance to do it. It didn’t happen for a couple of reasons; one, I was in Playa del Carmen studying Spanish for four weeks with limited Internet access; two, I’m lazy; three, I started work back at KIS and truly hit the ground running. This is the first year of my new position, which is really a binding of two half-time jobs into one full-time position. So I’m the Dean of Students (mostly about discipline and clubs) and the Technology Coach (about helping teachers with technology in the classroom). Today is the fourth day of school and the first time I’ve had to even catch my breath. This administration thing really keeps you on your toes!
Greg, the high school Technology Coach, and I are in the process of planning some workshops on iMovie, Wikis, and Garageband for the faculty. Plus, we have arranged some MacBook Basics workshops for those facutly members new to Mac. The faculty seems into it — we have eight returning teachers planning on attending MacBook Basics and 16 signed up for iMovie.
Now I’m off to the lunchroom to monitor students and hopefully grab a bite to eat.
