Saturation

February 19 Draft
initiatives like ib
new curriculum
new students
new web 2.0
new technology
all good on website, just need different words, colors, pictures & emphasis...

Revisited in May--
I was looking at the many things that "just" need a 1/2 hour of your "beyond work day": time to exercise, time for reflection, time with your loved ones, time for yourself, time to read, time to do your grooming, time to pick up the house, time to do lesson plans, time to enjoy your hobby, time to call your parents, time to send a quick friendly e-mail.......
And it adds up to needing to be retired! This work gig does get in the way!
The last line of my draft was a knee jerk reaction to a visit to the school by 2 outside marketing consultants. They had booked some of my time to review the school's website, which I do, and they said it was "Perfect". They then whet on to say that it just needed "different words, different colors, different pictures and different emphasis...". I started laughing. If I had more time, I could do different things. As it was, I was fitting the visit with them into the time I should have been doing the announcements on the hanging TV in the main hallway.
And so it is with Web 2.0.
I want to learn more. I want to teach more. I will do that--soon--maybe next year. As it is, this has been a year of digging garbage out and getting established. I deleted over 6000 copy records from my Destiny program--about 1/3 of the school's library books. The books did not exist. Everyone was discouraged from using the media center. It appeared that there was nothing there. Well, this is something concrete and will get folks believing in the viability of the library. Efforts well spent.