Emaze

Hello!!

I have dived in this semester and am neck deep into my Adult Learning and Visual Design classes at Stockton!! No matter how much work it is, I love it!! We are currently working on a few projects and I was able to look at a program called emaze and it is amazing!!  Really loved it and I am looking forward to incorporating it into my classroom!  It is a fun way to present your projects and very user friendly!! Best of all it is free! Hope you take a moment to check it out!!

Adult Learning

Hello again!!

My new semester at Stockton has begun and I am now sharing my blog with my Adult Learning class!  Very excited to see what the new semester brings!! Can't wait!!  Here is a great chart that I posted with my partner in our icebreaker for class! Very informative! Enjoy!  So in order to express my excitement in starting the new semester, I am going to get my Snoopy dance on!!! :)

Parent-Teacher Conferences

It's the most wonderful time of the year......  LOL!!  Parent/teacher conferences are underway and I think it is a painful process for all involved!!  The students are going home on half-day schedules begging teachers to have mercy, while teachers rub their hands together in anticipation of finally meeting their students' parents... (if they show up!!)  No matter what, in the end all I can say is that we all (hopefully) have the same goal of doing what is best for the student to make it through their current grade!!  

I'm sure that I speak for all teachers that we all pray our conferences do not end up like this!!

GOOD LUCK!!! 

NJEA!!! Whoo Hoo!!!!

What an amazing experience it was presenting at the NJEA Convention yesterday in Atlantic City!  A big shout out to my co-presenters Karen, Elsann and Sandy!!  Most especially to Amy Ackerman for giving us this amazing opportunity!  What a turn out we had!!  The crowd was HUGE and they were so interested and engaged in what we were presenting to them!!! All the hours and hard work we put into preparing for this was so worth it!!  Highly recommend to anyone Amy approaches to do this!! Now.. back to work and finishing the semester with an even bigger bang! LOL!!!

To stress or not to stress?

Today we are going to present our group presentation in class and all I can say is "Thank God it's almost over!!"  Don't get me wrong.. the class is very interesting and the assignment was fun... it was all the other stuff like work, home, etc.. that made it so stressful!! No matter what, I still had fun working with my group and I believe that working through the stress gave me the added benefit of making good friends out of co-workers!! Can't wait to present and get it all done!!!

On a lighter note... this will be me after tonight's presentation!! LOL!!! 

Work, School, and Projects!

This week has been very stressful!! At work, my students are still trying to get into work mode (it's a slow and painful process for all of us!) At school, trying to juggle 2 graduate classes has it's challenges, assignments are in progress and projects are coming up...but no matter what I love the fact that I can still discover a new program and have fun with it!  This week I played with Workflowy and I love it!  It is a wonderful way to stay organized and on task, especially if you have more than one project or assignment due!  Even better if you are working on a group project, you can share your document and everyone on the team can edit and add to the document as necessary! Try it out if you can!! On a last note.. thank God for sticky notes!!  I would be a mess without them! :)

Teacher Self-evaluations.... Oh MY!!

This week our teacher self evaluations are due.....  I'm sort of at a loss on what else to say!!!  I feel in just stating the fact that our self-evaluations are due is enough!!! Soooo enough said!!! :)