Well, I’m off to a pretty inauspicious start as a blogger. It has been over two months since I posted. However, I have been exceptionally busy. In that time, I have completed a semester with all of the grading, events, graduation, etc., that is entailed; taken a two week trip to China with my colleague and students from the ELA class we co-taught in the spring semester; planned and coordinated the academic part of the 13th annual Latina Summer Academy at the college; taught 3 classes of technology at LSA every day for a week; traveled constantly between my house and that of my daughter, seven miles away, since she is incapacitated from major knee surgery that she had in May (she has five sons, aged 2 to 12); attended many baseball games of three of the boys; fixed a traditional fried chicken to cherry pie 4th of July dinner for 14 family members; worked with doctoral students in various stages of their programs; and am planning and coordinating the academics for the new African American Academy the college is offering at the end of this month. In addition to this, I have been involved in the transition of my church of 38 years to close and merge with another church a few miles away. During this time, I was living in computer Limbo because my main desktop computer died a painful death, I limped along on a laptop hooked up to keyboard and large monitor with external hard drives attached and finally got a new one two weeks ago. I’m not really exhausted, but think I could be after reading this list. Though I believe my excuses for not posting are legitimate, I sincerely want to do a better job and maintain a blog that will be useful to my current and former students and anyone else who might be interested.
Topics I plan to cover in the next few weeks include: reflection on my trip to China, changes made to Weebly that make it even more user friendly, new applications and technologies I have encountered, embracing change, and some observations about the teaching profession. I most likely will throw in some personal experiences, observations and reminiscences. I will get on it as soon as I have some time….
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