We dont have any reading to do this week. And last week I posted on lesson planning, which is our assignment this week. So I really dont know what to post about. Except maybe how tired I am, and how I cant wait to get in bed. Its gotten pretty bade, and I realize that I am getting old. I used to stay up till all hours of the night and do homework or hang out or whatever. Now it gets to be 10 and I want to start getting ready for bed. Midnight is right around bedtime instead. AND, if that werent bad enough, I'm waking up at like, 7:30 every morning. I AM getting old, and thats not so much fun. I have a feeling my 5th year student teaching will be kinda rough. I need to recognize that next year is my last year to really sleep in, and so I need to embrace it. Everything is going by fast, and I can hardly believe I have been here for 3 years. Crazy.

Like I said, Im exhausted. So I'm going to bed! Goodnight!

so i ran a half marathon this morning...

I can't describe how excited I am we are going to learn about lesson plans. I think that, besides messing something up while teaching my students how to read and having my year with them be detrimental, lesson planning is what i am most nervous about. I know i'm only in my third year, but in just 2 short years I will have my very own class. Nobody else teaching but me. And I run everything, and need creative ways to help my kids learn every second of every day. I feel so unprepared right now, especially looking over the SOL requirements.

But thank goodness for EDLF 345 :) I know I will learn more about lesson planning later (I hope anyways) but it was nice to see not only that we are learning about it in class but that there are resources on the web to help me make my lesson plans. So yeah. I'm excited and that's that.

Im also excited because I ran a half marathon this morning. it was my first race (besides 5k's) and I loved it. So i decided to do my digital story on this because training has been a little rough and it was a long road to make it to today. and i did it. thats 13.1 miles of pure unbridled energy and perseverance. before anyone in this class woke up, probably.

And im also tired so Im going to bed. so good night!

Happy last hour of spring break!

It's still spring break and I'm trying to savor it as long as I can. Or maybe I'm not doing it on purpose, but my brain just wont come back to charlottesville. I'm having such a hard time here...its a little detrimental to my homework-catching-up-on process.

But this copyright assignment. I have to admit I havent done any of the readings on copyrights, but my guess is that I am going to read some of the rules and become aware that I have violated a lot more than I ever would have known without taking this class. I wonder how many people actually read these laws, or are aware, or even care? And how many get caught? We talked about it in class, like if we put more than 30 seconds of a song on our digital story then the chances that the artist will be listening to our story and sue are slim to none. But then I think about those people who decided to download music and got caught- those 10 (maybe around that number?) who probably thought "it will never happen to me!" and then got sued for a lot of money just to make a point. I dont want to be one of those. So I need to brush up on my copyright laws!

And it really would be easy to put in a whole song and not just 30 seconds. But I've also been learning a lot about integrity lately, and my conscience has become a lot more sensitive to it. I know I can't just break the rule now that I'm aware of it. Oh man. This could easily become a sermon topic if someone wanted to preach on romans. (I dont think many people read this. So talking about preaching shouldnt offend anyone). Anyways, its time for bed because Im used to going to bed at 10 from break. Im officialy 1 hour and 25 minutes late!

good night!