Comments | oddharmonic: G/T portfolio lunch, learned Duke TIP has a 4th/5th grade program.

oddharmonic

G/T portfolio lunch, learned Duke TIP has a 4th/5th grade program.

May 27, 2009 15:36

Vogon went to sleep around 0830 so I let him be and went to the ACE portfolio sharing lunch. The kids had made Powerpoint presentations and each had a laptop to share it on, so I watched Laurel's and a couple of her classmates while noshing on school lunch tacos. When we get a copy of her presentation on CD, I will extract the photos so you can see ( Read more... )

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may_lyn May 27 2009, 21:29:23 UTC

go, laurel! they do grow up with alarming and inevitable regularity, do they not?

himself must be really hermitting for you to worry about rickets!

oddharmonic May 27 2009, 22:35:37 UTC

She's going to be taller than me in a few years. I am not ready for that.

Vogon is light-avoidant because he's so sensitive to it lately. Once I got him outside this afternoon, he liked the sunlight and we went to Laurel's school and back with the convertible top down.

may_lyn May 28 2009, 03:20:28 UTC

killi and jason got taller than me so quickly! i told them to cut it out, but they were disobediant kidlets.

hey, killi's spending her birthday....tomorrow.....closer to you than to me! acon.

i really wanted to spend her birthday with her. she did say she would try and call.

Oh no. alarin612 May 31 2009, 19:48:52 UTC

Laurel is HOW OLD and ALREADY doing power point?

... I think my faith in this world just got stabbed in the leg ...

Re: Oh no. oddharmonic May 31 2009, 20:17:12 UTC

Eight, but she has a good grasp on non-obnoxious design from a lifetime around me. She used one style of transition throughout, did not make anything blink or scroll, and only used Comic Sans on one slide.

Our local elementary school has a computer center (5-8 computers) in every classroom, a networked laser printer in each grade's classroom pod, and a classroom set of laptops that is shared by the upper grades. While there are budget shortfalls expected for next year, we are in a comparatively well-off suburban district and a fairly new (15 year-old) building with no shortage on staffing. I have been nothing but pleased with our neighborhood school as long as Laurel's been there.