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Day-Dreaming

{ October 12, 2009 @ 2:47 am } · { Uncategorized }
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On a good note…

On the way back from Cincinnati this Fall Break, I was staring out the window, thinking of what I would do if I won a few 500 million or so dollars. First thing I envisioned was building a futuristic building structure for that hybrid high school I can’t shut-up about. RCHH. Not really a ring to it, but it will do for this post. As much as everyone cherishes the look of the brick building around here, the prison walls will have to go. I have envisioned white walls / glass walls, silver rails (have to change colors for academic purposes), and light grey marbled steps (office atmosphere). Below is a picture of an art school in Singapore that I found on flickr. I like the edginess of it, but I would not use such a design in a 6-12 school probably.
edesign

Futuristic Looking

Lunch Room is totally all High School. Football Field, Tennis Courts, Baseball/Softball Fields, Track and Field, etc……Auditorium, A place in which the Drama and Dance clubs/classes can put on plays and dances can be held. A quality Gym. All the indoor parts of the extracurricular activities would also be able to adapt to hi-tech equipment for concerts or professional developments, assemblies.

Students would attend online classes and f2f according to their learning styles. Every classroom will have a teacher, even the ones meant for just online. The instructor in there will be either the teacher themself or an aide to monitor. That is about as far as I have got in my day-dream so far.

I did envision myself in it. My hair was still dyed blond to a point that it wasn’t noticeable, so I must still be in my 30s…lol

Midterm STRESS

{ October 12, 2009 @ 2:10 am } · { Uncategorized }
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I checked my email.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

I have emails from two professors. One puts me in a panic, and the other one just makes me want to throw my hands up a yell “Why Me!” So, I check my panic grades and nothing is there. That is the 6th sense part of it. How am I supposed to do anything if I have no grades to even gauge whether I am doing anything right? The panic is that it’s a major assignment and the first part is due today and I didn’t even know about the assignment. It’s like they are coming from thin air, but I know they are not. I knew about this assignment coming, but I thought we were on a different assignment that requires a lot of work. Now we have two full blown assignments for this one class that is due in sections starting today through whenever. Am I supposed to just read minds and know how I am doing? I am going to assume the worse and it’s probably true for this class, since I can’t seem to get the reading done before another email pops up that reminds me that an assignment due date is being fiddled with. Another class, I did the final for the midterm (that took real brains). He is okay with it, thank goodness. Two of my professors seem to have a good online personality. The other professor doesn’t really talk at all. As for this class, every time I make an effort to catch up to the required blogs, something happens to my computer, or an emergency pulls me from my computer room. This time it was my modem frying and today it is another class’s surprise assignment. But, I am going to post this, because I need to.

I read in my books about how team work and team collaboration is suppose to be stronger with online classes, but the last 3 weeks seems to have gone kaboom. My experience with online classes has diminished dramatically in the last 3 weeks. I have three professors all together and I find that all three are very good. Two that always give me migraines are very busy. The other one, he may be busy, but he doesn’t let on. Classmates talk and everyone has given their opinion on them, but as adults, we love them all. In the end, everyone has there own favorites and not one is favored over another. It is much different then when in undergraduate studies or f2f.

This is my stress post for things I have had bottled for awhile, but I was hoping would straighten out. Now that I have gone a bit deeper into my grant, I realized that the situation is not going to rectify itself. The advising I may need this semester may not be available. This is going to be a tough semester and it’s already half over.

There is a contract due today for a class project. I just pulled the assignment up off my computer less then an hour ago. My modem is also toast. It has been that way for over a week. My Cable Company is coming out to replace it Monday. I’ll be lucky to finish this post, before I lose connection again.

Fall Break

{ October 12, 2009 @ 1:36 am } · { Uncategorized }
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Where to start.

It is FALL BREAK – Yeah! Oh, wait… I have to clean house, attend a family in-law birthday party and experience baby’s first night out!

I managed to get the living room to sparkle the family drove up toward the Cincinnati area for a surprise birthday party. I do love my in-laws though. I even packed along my EDUC 688 and 685 books with me for the 2 hour drive up there. Between the kids, radio, and hubby, I wasn’t going to get any reading done. An attempt was made, but after a few near hits and misses, my heart was beating so fast, I couldn’t concentrate to read. It is amazing what all people can do while driving and speeding at 80 down an Interstate…even if they are continuously crossing the lines and cutting everyone off. – Have to love the holiday weekend. To make it worse, they were all young female drivers, so my husband made sure to mention that. The birthday party we were at was my brother-in-laws, which he is a police officer; therefore a majority of the guests were male officers. Of course they got a kick out of it…all is fair in love and war…the wives had snide remarks in return.

Due to there being so many people visiting for the party, we decided to rent a room. Baby’s first time out of the house. She screamed until 6:00 am in the morning. I’m surprised management wasn’t called on us. My husband went down in the morning to get breakfast and someone was requesting a different room, but we don’t know if that was our fault. When I retrieved ice at 12:30 am, there were two adolescents running up and down the 2nd story hallway. This was a newly remodeled hotel with two wedding parties staying in it that night that we new of. It was total chaos. I did think about how we take technology for granted early this day, at check in. My hubby thought it best we stay in the car, because it was raining, and the lobby was packed. He went to check in. He had to go some distance to check-in due to a silver mini-van blocking the road. The mini-van had a family in it that all needed assistance due to their weight, but the hotel put their rooms on the 2nd floor (no elevators). Rooms had to be changed around. We ended up with a room on the 2nd floor, at the very end. A nice spot, but caring everything up the stairs was a nightmare. I pulled a muscle on my left shoulder while carrying the baby in her carseat up the stairs. No big deal. I have done it a million times over the summer. I just haven’t had to carry the carseat that much since the school year has been in.

Needless to say, we were able to visit with the in-laws for about 6 hours on Saturday. We slept for 2 of those hours. My husband and I were exhausted. Eventually we started the 2 hour trek home. I managed to summon up the energy to cook dinner and we all sat down and watched a family movie together “Inkheart”. I loved reading the book. I think the 2nd book is better than the first one. Just my opinion though.

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