Picking Brains
During the past week, I have been exposed to new people, ideas and tools. The LC Institute proved another valuable experience in my effort to bring my classroom in Louisiana to another level of learning. Thanks to several presenters for free tools that are available to use in education. Of particular interest is the site that Steve Dembo illustrated during his session where live feeds can be sent to and from your classroom with mogulus. During the last day’s rotations, Howard Martin presented an incredible display of how quickly he taught himself the features on mogulus, so much that I am inspired to use it sooner rather than later. Many thanks to all my buddies who are now in my annual photo updates. Below are a few I have shared.
Greek Goddess or Not?
Well, my session on God or Goddess Complex - It’s All In The Numbers is finished. We had a great time together learning about Blabberize. We shared ideas and worked well together, which is always the case with DEN members. During the session we used our LA Rulers, thanks to my ladder-falling-breaking-leg husband, to measure our facial features, blabberizing about it, and using Word to make our faces symmetrical.
When it came down to finding what our numbers were, we had a teachable moment thanks to Rita. After our numbers were revealed, we seemed to have a Goddess in our midst. When Rita’s number came out one one-thousandth from a perfect 1.618 we were ecstatic! We had never been in the presence of deity like this! After much ado about our discovery, it seems that during the presentation a certain someone got off task and, can you believe, fudged her measurements! It must have been her deity status that caused her random numbers to generate a virtually perfect, golden number.
Any session is great when the people are honest and willing to try something new, so hat’s off to all who attended and if you know of someone who is a REAL God or Goddess, please send them our way! An easy link is tinyurl.com/DNI2008 for some of the materials I’ve uploaded. If you have any questions or comments about the session, please leave a comment or email me. Check out Our Fav Blabber by clicking the lower left arrow.
Bounce Back Ideas
I have been looking into ways to bounce back spam emails to the creatures that sent it. My main email has somehow landed in the hands of spammers and while it is capable of directing the spam to the designated folder, I want to create havoc on those initiating the sordid and often unintelligent messages. So, if anyone has a good (free) solution to this dilemma, please post it on the blog. Thanks for any tips or ideas to get me started on my quest to rid my mailbox of unwanted items.
Counting the Days…
until our state GPS Tour to be held in New Orleans on Saturday, June 7. Perhaps not what you were thinking when I wrote “counting the days” but I am also counting the days until school ends (and until my cruise). I always have a pensive moment when looking toward the end of the school year. Bittersweet I suppose. Anyway, back to New Orleans. Our team of STAR DE’s from the N.O. area are working on a spectacular event so if anyone is interested and in the area, go to our state blog and read about the event. We promise it will be an energetic learning experience for all attendees. In case you haven’t been using Wufoo for your surveys (thanks Steve) it is easy to set up with the templates and is a great way to impress everyone.
Great Job on the DEN VC!
Getting Ready for the VC!
I am so excited about the Virtual Conference and the possibility of gaining new STARS! Thank you Jannita for coordinating this incredible event. You are certainly the queen of all coordination and I bow (or is it curtsy) to you! The best part is that my colleagues will now get to meet some of the awesome Discovery staff that I talk about so often. Be sure and get the word out in your district! ~Susan
LACUE
Just returned from our state conference where I met face-to-face with our new Events Chair, Gwen Thomas, who is amazing! We are already beginning preparations for the big DEN event ~ 02.02.08! She is one of my new South LA buddies I met while sharing at LACUE. We are also on the verge of formally launching our state LC, which is also very exciting. Next year, I hope DEN has a major presence at the conference and we will be reflecting back to this time and remembering how much we have grown. Although I mostly shared information, I picked up a few ideas from the conference that I will share on our state blog soon. One product that totally intrigued me is the “dumb terminal” from N-Computing. Their products expand an existing PC from 3 to 30 terminals by using the untapped resources in the CPU. I have requested some equipment on a trial basis and will let you know how that works out. Let me know if anyone else knows about this product and how it has worked for them.
A great site to visit: 4teachers.org
Check out this video I came across while surfing. I think I will use it in an upcoming regional presentation and maybe in a state presentation in November. Let me know what you think.
http://www.teachstrong.org/video/video/show?id=766480%3AVideo%3A42
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