I Know Them Better

I Know Them Better

The monitors flicker and shine.
Shades down blocking all reality.
White walls, white computers, white ceiling, white floor, keyboard mouse.
Florescent light rains down on young minds.
Lips tremble and mumble.
Anxious fingers tap and click.
Chairs slide, feet shuffle, eyelids dance from word to word.
Read. Decide. Click. Next. Wait.
A score from a mouse?
We can't help you?
Collaboration at it's worst.
Proctor pacing, watching, stopping.
Multiple choice defines you?
One hour, 42 questions, on a Friday afternoon?
Telling ME about Them?

20/365

"Agreed"
January 27, 2012
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19/365

"Technology?"
January 26, 2012
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Issues!

Today was the unveiling of the new MrKnaus.com.  I was excited, nervous and anxious.  I saw a few students on the stairs going to class and several of them said they had already looked at the site and had questions.  Imagine.  Students looking at a classroom website during non-class hours.  Be still my heart!

I quickly found out that I had it set up quite wrong.  I had all the warm-up pages together, all the lesson plans together, and all the exit slips together.  Thankfully, I was using Weebly and it was a simple as dragging pages around to make it work.  Problems happened about half way through moving pages around.  Weebly went down.  It was only down for about 30 minutes and I think it may have just been my account.  That impacted my plan for one of my classes (with a district director observing).  We plowed through with other things though and survived.

Now I have all the information for one class listed together: lesson plan, warm-up, sample blog and exit slips.  It seems to be a better fit.

I also pointed out the links to Facebook and Twitter even though they don't show up at school.  So far, I've got no new followers on either page.  I hope that a few take it on as they were the students were the ones who requested it.

18/365

"Fishing for People"
January 22, 2012
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17/365

"Arising"
January 24, 2012
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16/365

"Left Behind, Again"
January 24, 2012
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