New School, New County!

It's summer time! With that being said, it's also the time of year teachers get new contracts and I certainly did. I had been looking to change schools and even counties and had two interviews before the end of the school year. The first resulted in going onto the fingerprinting process of the interview at a job fair, but alas no job openings! The second interview resulted in another interview with the same county. During my last week of school, I received a phone call that I had the job! It was a bittersweet decision, but one that I felt I had to make. So next year I will be a Technology Resource Teacher in a new county and a brand new school!

I am very much looking forward to the challenges that lay ahead of me and I have no doubt there will be some! I've already had a chance to meet my new boss and some of my colleagues and they have been very receptive and encouraging. I've also gotten to meet the principal of the school and get some ideas for the next school year.

One of the great benefits to this new job is that get the chance to work with Macintosh computers again! It's been a couple of years since I last worked with them and as always, technology advances, so I will need to study up on some of the software and tools I will be getting to use this coming school year, but I can't wait! I will be keeping the page updated and look for my new stories!

Neat Little Website

I found this several weeks ago, but just didn't have a chance to post it until now. "Crayons and Computers", was created by Carol Sabbeth, a performer and author of four books, who teaches students and teachers about art through family programs at the Portland Art Museum. Her website has several lessons that can be used to teach students (even adult students, like me!) how to create digital art in programs such as Microsoft Paint. I created cows that actually looked like cows-not stick figures, who knew?