Bud the Teacher

Momentum is a funny thing. Once you lose it, it’s hard to get rolling again.

We will celebrate the graduation of 28 seniors on
Friday. That’s always a special time,
but the hecticness of the week preceeding graduation always seems to take over
just about ever other aspect of life. 

  Thanks to those of you who’ve posted
suggestions about how you do your daily reading and writing school-wide. I was never looking for a “program,” as I
think nothing sucks the goodness out of reading like Accelerated Reader and its
derivatives. But I do see lots of good
ideas buried in the comments – as I find time over the next week, I’ll return
to those and comment on the good, bad and ugly of what I see.

 Speaking of
ugly, I am reminded of my statement that we should be publishing the failures
as well as the success stories of working with these technologies in
schools. I owe you a bit of a failure
story, as my blogging project with my speech class didn’t work quite as I had
hoped – although I do see some small successes buried in the not-so-super
results. We learned a great deal this
quarter. Now I’ve got to make sure I record what we learned so that I don’t
forget the lessons over the summer.

 But first,
graduation.