The problem with having a hoilday from blogging
Life has been a little hectic the last wee while, and although I have been setting up a blog for use with my new chemistry class, I have been too busy (sorry) to fire up bloglines or even post here. The only problem is, now that I am back, there is just far too much good stuff in my bloglines waiting to be read. Is there room in an individuals life for a full time job, wife, kids, house, garden, excercise, and blogging? and I even missed of the most important thing from the list.
One aspect of my job is puting systems in place which will make the life of my fellow teachers easier. Our biggest hit so far is the behaviour managenment system that allows us to log kids behaviour (good and not so good) via a webpage on our school intranet. The staff like it, the managers like it, and we recently allowed the pupils to view their own loggings - they too love it, and behaviour accross the school appears to be getting better since! This week the staff in the school have been discussing target setting with a view to formalise what we are already doing accross the school, and to move over to a database driven, web interface target setting application. Time will tell, but I am hopefull that it will make things easier for staff in the long term and may even allow us to do away with formal reports to parents….
Anyway, next week I will start developing it. The point of this rant however is that technology should make our lives easier, and free up our time to spend interacting with people, with friends and family, and the students we teach. Im sitting here blogging with my back to the TV, (and my wife), when really I should be spending the evening with her. I guess therefore that this post should really conclude with something “relationship building”. I was interested to learn that Oly was into kayaking. As someone who lives near some great kayaking country/seascape, I feel it only fair to issue an invitation to any kayakers up this neck of the woods to came and visit (stay if you are house trained), and we can paddle, and ponder the wonders of web 2.0, and if I crank up the gain on my wireless connection, even blog from a canoe in the bay in front of the house with my iPac.
Im off to spend some quality time with the wife in front of friday night’s TV best. 
