I'm off to do something fun (I hope) next week.
My state provides funding for the
NC Center for the Advancement of Teaching, which offers classes and seminars in the
Appalachian Mountains in the western part of the state, near the campus of
Western Carolina University. Teachers can apply to go to week-long classes and the program pays to put you up in their facility and funds a substitute teacher while you're gone. A group of us are going to learn more about using things like wikis and blogs as teaching tools. We get to use Western's library and fitness center. It's a beautiful area and I'm excited about going--I've been to Asheville before, but never to Cullowhee.
I'll still be around, though. Virtually, that is.