2020 Nexus

Don’t tell anyone, but this cheerful but aloof teacher had a serious moment of grief yesterday.  It happens every year–don’t tell me you haven’t experienced it, too.  These kids I’ve known since they were 11 and who are now 14, going off to high school, saying goodbye. . . it makes my eyes leak!  A [...]

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**UPDATE**
I only lasted 2 days.  Oops.
I heard about Screen Free Week through a post on Jeff Utecht’s U Tech Tips. The idea is to abstain from using any screen except for must-do work tasks.  Apparently the event happens once a year.   Because I am someone who struggles with work-life-web balance, it seemed like an inspired idea.  No Twitter.  No reading [...]

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I’ve been making a lot of plans that, God willing, will come to fruition in the next few months.  I’ve never had such a busy summer schedule, despite the fact that it will be a month longer than usual.
Early Release May 2.  Counting down!  My colleagues and I have been stuffing, cramming, double-booking, and overlapping all of April and May’s [...]

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Once again it’s been a long time between posts but today I have some fun things to share. Before we get to that, let’s just say I’ve been consumed lately by grading final projects (our first digital stories!), starting fourth quarter, learning a bazillion kids’ names, training them in my lab’s minutiae, preparing [...]

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The second week of a new semester is almost here and we are well into the grind again. I only put in nine or ten hours left work early daily this past week and it was wonderful to have a life. I think I preserved some of the precious energy reserve I [...]

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