This week has been trying. My school where I teach closed down due to maintenance problems and we are now forced to relocate into a new school. As a result, the senior high will attend classes in the morning and the junior high (my school) will have the afternoon shift (1:30pm - 5:45pm). With classes shortened, lack of storage space, and no lockers for students it will be a challenge to have all the resources necessary to offer a quality program. One concern is the number of textbooks students will be forced to carry to and from school.
One of the possible solutions is to use the school’s web site to support the curriculum. Wouldn’t it be great if we had electronic versions of the textbooks? Students could leave their textbooks in school and use the eTextbook online at home. Why aren’t we doing this anyway? The decisive reason I would imagine would be costs. Ah, but it good to dream.
Filed under: Uncategorized — Mr. Sheppard @ 10:48 am
The Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Academy cordially invites you to attend this year’s Robotics Educators Conference, to be held at Butler County Community College, north of Pittsburgh in Butler, PA.
The Conference is taking place August 6-8, 2008. For more information please visit this link:
When: Saturday, December 8, 2007 Where: Frank Roberts Junior High, Foxtrap Access Road, CBS Time: 8:00 - 4:00pm (tentative) Contact: Thomas Sheppard (thomassheppard@esdnl.ca)
