Oh goody, more phlegm...Need Nurturing

I got a flu shot on Monday and now I have a 100.3 temp and body aches all over. Kathy was nice enough to fix me some hot spiced tea, but she's not much on the babying you when you're sick. Maybe Erin burned her off that.

Sophie Rolls Over

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Now is am finally CERTIFIABLE

I just finally got my instructor certificate to teach people to be certified as Emergency Dispatchers. This will be a capstone certificate to my students that have been with my program for their high school career. The students can take the national certifying test with NAED and if they pass and pay the fees, they can go out and apply for a job as Emergency Dispatchers at police departments, fire departments and even places like OnStar
This is VERY beneficial and just so cool!

Back to school

It is Back to School time and this seems like it will be the best year ever. Last year was very good but this year is shaping up to be a really encouraging year. I have a good crop of students and almost 65 second year students. A lot of them are returning 10th graders so that means that we may have a good 3rd year program and maybe even a 4th year.

The most pressing need I have now is equipment and another teacher.

Arrrghhh!

Webpub will not let me upload anything to the TAMU-C system! I will have to try tomorrow from the school lab.

Curses, foiled again.

Last assignments!

Here it is that last day of class (online) and I am rushing to meet the deadline for last assignments! Is there anyone else out there doing the same?

Webquests bog me down because I get so fascinated by them. They get me going off on such wild tangents. Is this something that will happen to my students also? Especially my law enforcement students who test out heavily on the ADD or ADHD side of the learning equation. Good cops are ADD; at least all the good cops that I have known. They are also adrenaline junkies. AHA! That reminds me of another website that gives a self test to see if you are an adrenaline junkie. This is not such a bad thing. You want the police and firefighters to be adrenaline junkies. They are the ones that will charge into a burning building or a dangerous accident scene to drag your behind out.