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Family, Computers, and Creativity
Nov. 5, 2008
Latest Update
I have been meaning to post but it seems that I seldom get a chance to slow down enough to get one put together. Today, I am determined to at least set aside 15 minutes during lunch break to get something in here.
Family news -
Melody's and David's wedding is less than two weeks away. We went yesterday to Henderson House Bed and Breakfast to do the bridal photos. Itis a pretty place and Melody and David looked great together. :0) I will post some of the pictures after Melody gets first shot at posting them herself to her own blog/Facebook.
Gregory is within a month of finishing out his degree. The college wants him to stay on (he has been working there as a work study) and they have offered to extend his full scholarship. He is considering whether he wants to go for a second degree or pass on the offer and focus on job placement. He is so busy though that he barely has time to think, even on such weighty matters as this is. Besides his 12 credit hours of classes and the asociated homework, he is a 20 hr/wk work study, is interning with the tech department of the Hempstead County School District, fixing 1 to 4 computers per week, and of course we keep him hoping here at home with our computers too. Whew!
Timothy and Zach are staying busy on their homeschool studies. I took Zachary bowling a few weeks ago. He really enjoyed it. We also went to the Crater of Diamonds State Park about a month ago and stopped off at the rock shop near the park entrance. We added copper, a fossil seashell, and flourite to our collection. Tim has been mostly a homebody lately, common for boys of his age when all of a sudden he is old enough to be allowed to stay home alone instead of having to get dragged everywhere because he is too young to be home alone.
John has now moved in to his new office. He was promoted to purchase agent. Training the new fellow and in turn being trained for his new position keeps him pretty busy.
Me? Well, I am still quite busy teaching online with VHSG. We have one more mession of governemnt and that class will be finished up. Biology has been running since late spring. I now have all but 4 modules developed (slidesets, VoiceThreads, quizes, labs, etc). I love the course development phase. It is very creative. But, when you are teaching while developing sometimes you can feel that you don't have the time (each module in biology is about a 30 hour investment of time) to do all the things that you want to. The science courses though are ones that I intend to keep teaching over and over again so each pass through I will be able to refine and get it just the way I want it. That is, if we get other volunteers on board. I cannot stay with these courses and teach them over and over if no other volunteers are offering classes that Tim can take. I will instead need the time to be working on the classess he needs since he has already taken all three of the science classes now.
My 15 minutes is long gone, but I am so glad to get a post in here. :0)
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