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Waiting for the other shoe...


Things have been going fairly well with my classes. I'm starting to get worried/suspicious... itchy butt was actually on task all period on Friday, thanked me for moving his assigned seat and returned promptly from a trip to the library with a book to read. It's a bit freaky.

I'm thinking the flu epidemic is having an impact on this long streak of calmness. Only any given day, at least three kids are gone from every class. Even itchy butt has been out a few times, and you know that kids like that are never gone. Not that anyone has had swine flu, they're all just staying home at the slightest sign of sickness.

Today I had my first pro-cert culminating seminar. Five hours people... five hours! During the pre-assessment pro-cert we had long discussions about the use of the refresh button, how important it was use the ,jpeg format for photos and other technological conundrums. Today we had a 30 minute discussion on how a document appendix works. Labeling each document with a letter was confusing for several people. At least I got a chance to check my email.

We all told to bring laptops to class to use... which means that usually about half the students would be playing with fac*ebo*ok the whole time. The teacher prevented this, by telling everyone to "put their screens at 45 degrees", you know... so we could all look at each other. Never having confronted the problem myself, I thought it was a pretty ingenious solution. Just a tip for those who have students with laptops in class.
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