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the scenic route

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Today (barring bad weather) I will continue my tradition of going home after the last day of school via the scenic, winding and sometimes dirt roads of Greene and Polk Counties. My windows will be down and if you are within a few hundred feet of my route, you will hear the Ramones.

I am blessed to get to teach as my life’s work, but I am fried. So, if you too are wandering about the back roads of God’s Country later this afternoon, look out for a little red car.

Peace.

My Prezi on blogging for teachers

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This Friday, Willard is having a Festival of Technology for all the teachers in the district. I drew the short straw and am presenting on blogging. I hope my enthusiasm for blogging has not been mistaken for expertise. Oh well, they get what they pay for.

One really nice outcome, however, has been my learning how to use Prezi as a presentation technique. Prezi is presentation software that allows nearly unlimited use of collage to bring together text, video and graphics to tell a story. The ability to scale everything from huge to tiny and create visual hierarchies is very different from the linearity of powerpoint.

I’ve tried and failed several times to embed the prezi here in my blog. There’s clearly something about the process I’m not getting. So instead, should you be interested, I am including the link to Prezi where my presentation will play. Click the fullscreen option to see it much better.


http://prezi.com/luahy9v74her/