It seems that we were just in August a few days ago and suddenly it is November! What happened?!
A great deal has happened here at SAAS since this summer:
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| Debut of Winter Tri 'paint job' |
- Our Moodle site moved from our servers to Moodlerooms, a hosted site. Just as in any move we lost a few things, discovered new things, and are still moving the 'furniture and pictures' around to best suit our present needs!
- The great news is that we are current and up-to-date!
- Troubleshooting with the Moodlerooms support people has been a great help and they are awesome people!
- We have many learning and teaching options for teachers and students to explore.
- and soon it will have a wonderful new 'paint job' just like a new house should!
We moved to Google Apps for Education! Collaboration, cooperation, creative exchange and creation of ideas, as well as global access is another step towards a holistic 21st century learning environment. Google Docs, Google Sites, blogs..... the potential for learning and sharing learning will continue to keep us thoroughly immersed in the education adventure.
SAAStainability is becoming an integrated theme for our sustainability initiative across all departments and offices. Check out our Google Site on Sustainability created for the PNAIS fall teacher conference in Portland: Sustainability Resources (to share and contribute) I am still awed by the Virtual Museum of the Origins created by Melinda's evolution seminar class last year.
The arrival of netbooks for some of the middle school math and English classes has increased our student to computer ratio to almost 1:1. We now have full access carts in 10 classrooms, learning support, and enough to borrow for special projects. The tech lab still serves as the Internet Cafe of Global Learning for classes and individuals.
Like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz we are moving along the yellow brick road of the future - "Podcasts! and Bloggers! and Tweets! Oh My!" with our collaborative friends Scarecrow, Tin Man, Lion, and Toto. We have our tools at the ready, our content at our fingertips, and our capacity to create learning environments that prepare our students for college and life.
What happened to Fall? Perhaps the more relevant question Where are we in our learning this fall? We've been learning, growing, creating and discovering the questions.
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. ~Lloyd Alexander
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. ~Jacob Bronowski
