The scene: Monday night. We are tired. Lloyd is working in front of his giant monitor. Lloyd: “Come read my new rubric for web design class.” (That’s right, we use words like ‘rubric’ around here. We’re Smarty-Smartersons.) Me: “Mm-hmmm. Yes… looks good….” (Counting in my head to seventy-five while staring at the [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 21, 2009
This is the email that I sent out this morning before I drove off: The NE Technology Coordinator’s Fall meeting (or as I like to call it, “The day all the computers in Nebraska schools stop working.”) Is happening in Grand Island today. If you need me, that’s where I’ll be. –Lloyd About an hour later I received a flurry [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, August 8, 2009
This past Thursday we put together 25 computers for one of Lincoln Lutheran’s computer labs. The week before I sent out an email to Lincoln Lutheran families asking if anyone wanted to help put some computers together. I had about 12 students, 3 alumni and 1 teacher join in the fun. We spent a little [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 29, 2009
We were watching a movie on the new monitor a few weeks ago and it was skipping frames. Lauren asked why it was doing that and I said my computer was too slow for the fantastically amazing resolution of the new monitor. She said I should get a new computer. I actually just changed the [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, May 17, 2009
Well, we went looking at computer monitors at Nebraska Furniture Mart. I never thought that Lloyd could out-Mart me. I went looking at all their cool stuff while he stood in a trance in front of a bank of monitors, looking stoic. Apparently he has been thinking about this decision for quite [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Whatever could this be for? We have a laptop! It was supposed to be for school, but I’ve already named it, so now it’s mine. It’s SOOOOOOOOO cute! Teeny-tiny, and cute as a button. It arrived last week (9 3/4 by 7 1/2 inches , 2 lbs 11 oz, brown eyes, brown hair), and it’s delightful! [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 12, 2008
It’s the last week of preschool* and I ‘m getting some stuff done at home. One of the things I am most thankful for is this ol’ iMac. It makes me look like a GREAT teacher! This was the first year I got my act together and sorted out (by child) the digital pictures [...]
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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