Clarity

It is profoundly ironic that today is the day a face to face, heart to heart meeting was announced for tomorrow -- today being St. Valentine's Day and all. What inspired such action?

Today, the students were sent to my blog to see how my semester project is evolving. I use my blog as a template to model a research project in the making. The demonstration was to be how to embed links into text, and specifically how to link sources to the point a person is making in writing. In this case I was explaining how my project has evolved from gourds and papercutting to gourd books and, now, gourds and musical stories. I found a ukelele site with music and had embedded a link to the song Follow the Drinking Gourd, and the Audio Player file that went with it. The students could see how telling my story can be communicated without including every single word, but embedding links for illustrative purposes.

Like YouTube, the students are blocked from accessing it, or any of the songs at the site. My demonstration was for naught. I emailed my IT specialists at both schools and copied my Gifted coordinator asking for help and guidance since now we are a month into the class and I'm having to re-work lessons from the original idea -- at this point, having the students get access to online sources would be helpful. All I am told is that there is discussion about getting an educational YouTube or some version of a safer YouTube, but there doesn't seem to be any urgency.

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My coordinator sent out a strong message to a handful of people at the school board and now there is a call to have a face to face and heart to heart meeting where everything can be put on the table for clarity. What does that mean in corporate-speak? One message clearly suggested that one person did not know there was an urgency to this issue. My, myMYmymy.

 But, tomorrow between 1 and 3pm we will get some clarity.