This Week...

This week Mr.Maraedy came into our class to speak. He basically just talked about the history behind charter schools, and why he chose to make McKeel a charter school. The information was useful because I never really realized how much different a charter school was from a public school. He repeated the phrase "...and things like that" a lot, which kind of annoyed me, but overall the presentation was okay.

I know McKeel is supposed to be like the "top school", but really I know friends in public schools that are learning more than I am. They do have better technology, seeing as though Lakeland uses Mac's in their technology lab while we have to use old Dell's that don't work half the time. I think if we represent ourselves as a technology school, we have to be up to date on the stuff.

I won't be back at McKeel next year, so I guess I'll really see how different the two schools are from each other.

This Week...

So this week Dr.Acocelli came in and talked to us. I personally love her, as a teacher and as an administrator. She is just so amazing at whatever she does and she talks to us like we're not two years old. Students respect her but she also respects us.

Anyways, she came in to the class to talk to us about Certifications of teachers. I never really realized how many tests teachers had to pass to be considered qualified to do their job. And the tests seem really expensive. Dr.A was explaining how some of the tests can be as expensive as 200 dollars. That's a lot of money for just one test!!

The words we had to look up before she came in were kind of confusing. The acronyms sometimes didn't make sense or I would find things that weren't correct.

So next time, I think they should give us the full name and we should define it.

This project is going to be reallllllllly long.

Blind Side & Presentations

This week in class we did our presentations on blogster, wiki, prezi and glogster. My partner was Shelby Anderson. Together, we did four teachers. This was kind of a hard subject to teach since I wasn't really aware of how to use many of the sites myself. So, I had to go on the websites beforehand and figure it out.

Prezi seemed to be the hardest one to use. I still don't know how to use it. UGH! So Confusing.

We also watched the movie "The Blind Side" in class. I watched this movie over and over in theatres. I think it has a really good message to it and I loved Sandra Bullock's role. I've always wanted to adopt a child who was in a bad family and bring them up the right way.

I think it tells a good story about how people can go from nothing to a lot. Michael got a little help from a family and made it all the way to the top. It's a great inspirational movie.