(Okay, not totally, quick update is that today’s sentimental HPT was negative. Trying to keep the faith since last month was 35 day cycle, but whatever. If I’m not, I’m not.)

Now, onto things that are above the collarbone, ie, my brain!

This week, I spent the week at school as one of the trainers for our school’s Tech Academy. We got a big fat grant to do prof dev within our school, to try to get teachers more comfortable with the tech resources we have. Our school (save for 7/8) runs on Linux, with thin-clients and servers and all that hoo-ha. (7-8 is part of the MLTI, the state sponsored Laptop program, we all have iBooks.) So, I spent a week in July preparing stuff for the class, and then this week was spent teaching teachers. I had two classes, Basic FirstClass, and Multimedia, and it went well.

Really well. By the end of Friday, I had teachers who had never used the computers in their room thanking me, telling others how GOOD I was, and how PATIENT. (I don’t think it hurt that the last class of the week was run by our tech coordinator, who is great at what he does, but doesn’t quite understand that you need to leave right-clicking the hell alone until people are comfortable with left-clicking, etc) The whole week, though, really reminded me of what it is I KNOW, and what it is I LIKE and why I AM in grad school for Instructional Technology. With the school year shaping up to be very fucking shitty (the whole, “You get all the poor kids from broken homes because the rich kids with supportive families wanted to be together and WE LET THEM” drama that is playing out — if there was racial diversity and this shit happened, there would be a class action LAWSUIT happening, okay? It is not heterogeneous.) it reminded me that I just have to get through, survive this year. I want to be teaching adults. Is that so wrong? I’m really good with all levels, and I know that, and it sounds sort of cocky, but I am. But adults WANT to be there. I want to teach THEM.

So, I am taking a class this fall (Telecommunications) and maybe next spring, but I think I will definitely apply for a TA/GA position at the uni for next fall or spring, depending on Project Offspring. It’s what I’m good at, I wanted a few years of classroom to have street cred with educators, and I will have that. But it’s important that I focus on what I’m GOOD at, what I WANT to do, not just something I CAN do.

So, there’s that. Now if I could just get knocked up already.