Pretty much suck when you wake up with laryngitis.......
But I am a trooper (or shall we say stupid?!) and went to work today anyway. Even stayed for evening conferences. I didn't do much conferencing because of my lack of voice (and poor parent attendance) , but spent some quality time working on my section of the school website. Did you know that you can turn a Powerpoint presentation into a .mov (Quick time) file on a Mac? Pretty sweet. Makes it easy to upload the students' projects. Here is the intrrduction we made, I hope you can view it (you should be able to as long as you have Quicktime player). I was having trouble uploading it to YouTube for some reason?! Each pair of students is making their own presentation/movie of the rainforest they studied.
Download Tropicalrainforests.mov
Too bad I have only the older eMacs at school to work with. The wait on my Macbook pro is dragging on forever! It was 16 days ago that I ordered that thing and it isn't scheduled to ship/arrive until Nov. 30th. I guess that is what happens when you customize it with the latest hardware upgrades available! And I swear I am not rubbing my purchase in to those of you who have told me how envious you are.....I probably won't even know how to use the thing and wonder why I charged the boat-load of money it took to buy it in the first place! I guess only time will tell....
I have conferences again all day tomorrow, then off to class to present my technology project.......which happens to be the school website ;)
Can't wait to sleep in on Thursday! At this exact moment in time that is what I am so very thankful for :)
Hope your feeling better! Happy Thanksgiving to you and enjoy your sleep in!!
Posted by: Noel | November 20, 2007 at 10:35 PM
Feel better soon!!!!
Posted by: adrienne | November 20, 2007 at 10:57 PM
hope you get to feeling better...and you WILL know how to use that MAC!!!!
Happy Thanksgiving chick
Posted by: greta adams | November 21, 2007 at 08:15 AM