Wallblog

It just seems that we do not have for anything. Today after listening to Mike Porter's presentation on Google Earth, I realized that it could be used for so much more than finding my house. I would love to do a travelog of Darwin's travels to the Galapagos using Google Earth, supplemented with pictures of the various finches and other animals that he discovered. Also the whole Ebola or Avian flu outbreaks to be traced would be great. However I just do not see how I can put in the time to make them. Would it be possible to have students do these types of presentations for independent studies? Give them ideas of what we are looking for and let them create. I believe that these types of presentations, where they are actually seeing it rather than reading it would be fantastic, and enjoyable. I think that they have the time to do it, it would be used throughout the world and they should recieve credit for it. Do high school students really have anything tangible that they walk away from school with? I am thinking about doing a long term project like this in summer school.

I was just thinking of school hirings for teachers. Basically it comes down to who we think the best fit is for our school. I keep wondering, what was it that they saw in me that prompted them to hire me? Yes, I graduated from college, happened to be a coach, and teach science. Hopefully I was qualified, however, I had never taught before and was straight out of student teaching. So, was I hired because they saw the potential?, the commitment?, or was I hired because I was an Arapahoe graduate? I would hope that it was not just because I walked these halls as a student, but upon my other merits that I was judged. It would be nice to have the ability to hear other peoples thoughts, every once in a while.

My wife attend a private catholic school and wants to send our daughter there too. I am very comfortable in the Littleton Public Schools system, and since I am a teacher, does it not look bad if I am sending my kids to another school? How can I convince her that LPS is just as good if not better than a catholic education?