Geeky Mom

There used to be Friday cat blogging, Friday fun, and on Twitter, Friday follow. I bring you Friday five, lists of five things, mostly random.

Five things I’m thankful for this week:

1. Friends near and far who’ve let me know they care.
2. Nuclear and extended family
3. Having enough
4. The ability and motivation to learn and change
5. My pets, who love me no matter what

Five things I want to do:

1. Finish painting the bedroom (today maybe!)
2. Use my new mixer to make something yummy
3. Do something fun with my kids
4. Prepare a month of classes–ha!
5. Finish decluttering the main areas of my house

Five interesting things I found this week:

1. An article about how we view our past and future selves: NYTimes: Why You Won’t Be the Person You Expect to Be
2. Tenth Grade Tech Trends — Product Design — Medium
3. Different ways of looking at New Year’s Resolutions: Alternatives to the New Year’s Resolution
4. Applying New Research to Improve Science Education by Carl Wieman: Value of Competitions?
5. The 10 Skills That Will Get You Hired In 2013, lots of CS on this list!

I wish I had something witty to post here, but I’ve been working for the last three hours, retooling my class schedule.  Not only are we behind, but I started having some philosophical differences with my textbook.  They put Web 2.0 tools in with multimedia stuff like video and audio.  I mean, yes, one of the great things about blogs and wikis, etc., is that you can make them multimedia quite easily, but I wouldn’t lump them in with stuff created with a tool like Adobe’s (now obsolete) director.  Interestingly, I’m finding that I think of everything as being online and as part of the internet.  I find it weird now to think of audio or video or animation as separate from the web, though I know it can be.  I am constantly reminding myself and my students that internet access may not be available, possibly even at the school level.  But it is hard for me to imagine learning without it.

I have a million other things on my list to do today–going to the school to pick up some volunteer materials, dropping off the car for inspection, and laundry out the wazoo.  Chances are I’ll be relaxing quite a bit this weekend.