EMD613 Week 4 Free response blog

Well here we are at the end of month 11. The end of a very busy yet very exciting time for me. I have learned so much about technology and how it can be used to really improve my student's educational life. I have been exited about the possibilities and frustrated by the lack of progress on the part of those I work with to catch the technology bug. I know that if they could see what I see they would be all about getting this out there for our students. I have grown to understand that the role that I will play in the future may very well be, as the person who shows them (other teacher and admin) the possibilities of the technology that is available. I have come a long way in this past year and in many ways this program has taught me so much more than just a bunch of techie stuff. Some of my fellow classmates have talked about what to do with the degree and many things have been suggested but for me, this was never about getting a degree but more about getting a set of new skill to help my students enter their future. So for me this program has done everything I have asked of it and so much more. The more is all of you. The thing I didn't count on getting from this program was you. The thing I didn't count on getting was a chance to get to know such a great group of people so all over the country. I never thought that I could have such good friendship with people I've never even seen in person. This is the true gift that comes from this new world of technology. I know understand that the world outside is so much bigger and brighter then I had ever dreamed it could be. I now know that the world is full of people like you who all care and are committed, like me to helping students to find their dreams and prepare for the brave new world that is in front of them. Thanks so much for being apart of the journey.

EMD613 Week 4 Response to Jake

Jake Said: We are nearing the end and I am not sure what I should do with this degree. I am trying to figure if I can apply for college teaching jobs. I want to teach at the local university or college but I have been wondering if I should even apply. Full Sail University is not SACS (Southern Association of Colleges and Schools) accredited and I am worried that they may not honor my degree for a teaching position. I’ve found myself deciding to stay teaching in high school, because I’m afraid that the degree might not allow me to reach my dream job.

I said:

So Jake, I to am trying to figure out what I should and more importantly could do with this degree. I have not even looked into the accredidation issue in my area. I think that some day I will wnat to teach at a local Community College. But I’m not sure what the requirements are for those jobs. For now all I feel like I’m getting out of this degree is a lot of new skills and a really cool computer. But for me that’s is really all I went into the program looking for. The skill and the knowledge I have gained from this program, was for me the goal. I would like to be able to use all this new knowledge to help students but I think that for me, in the district I’m in, it will be a difficult, “row to hoe”. But I’m up for the fight so we will just have to wait and see. Good luck buddy, I mean that. I consider you a friend and that was a real bonus for me. To get to know some really great people online without ever having seen you in person. That is the real power of all this technology. Thanks for the good times.

EMD613 Week 4 Project of the Week

Well, here I am on Sunday, still working on my AR Project, and this weeks AR project assignment is taking me right up to the deadline once again. This week was the big week to present my project and get some feedback. I presented on Thursday night and WOW, what a long night. The Wimba session went almost up till midnight. I think it was about 4 hours long. The were a lot of good projects and I got the information I needed to finish up my project but again WOW, what a long night and tonight seems like it is going to be a equally long night. I have already spent about six to eight hours on this today and about six hours on this yesterday. I realy have not done anyting all weekend accept this. But I'm rapping things up and I'm happy with what I've produced. I now have a really good video on my AR site to showcase my presentation as well as some embedded video on some of the other pages in my AR site to show some of my cycle work. I also added some pictures of my students to some of the other pages (this was a suggestions from the Wimba on Thursday). So when all is done, I will have put many, many hours into this but I think it will be ready to present. Now all that is left to do is to submit to the conference that I'm hoping to present. I still have quiestion about that. I don't know if we need to submit to more than one place. Most people have more than one place on the AR site but I don't know what the requirement is. I guess I will find out in Month 12. TILL THEN.......

EMD613 Week 4 Response to Karlene

Karlene said: Zander’s The Art of Possibility has been a wonderful, breath of fresh air in our long, arduous year of studies. I have already recommended it to several people and am inspired by it again and again. In Chapter 10 he states:

“If I cannot be present without resistance to the way things are and act effectively, if I feel myself to be wronged, a loser, or a victim, I will tell myself that some assumption I have made is the source of my difficulty” (p. 143).
I am reminded that life is not fair, it’s the way things are. If I find myself in conflict and feel put out, or like a victim, I just need to turn the tables and say, “OK, what am I assuming? Is that the problem?” If I am assuming that every teacher in my school has as much passion and desire to have their students learn the arts as I do, I’m sure that’s false, no matter how much I wish it. I have to back up and see the whole board, and enjoy my dealings with all of the teachers and their classes. They aren’t all as supportive as I wish, but I can deal with that and enjoy those classes in a different way.
I loved the words about us living up to our potential, and having vision to take any downward spiral thinking into the arena of possibility. Marianne Williamson’s words ring true to my soul:
“You are a child of God. You’re playing small doesn’t serve the world….We were born to make manifest the Glory of God within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone, and as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same” (p. 178-9).

One of my favorite children’s songs is taught to every child in our religion from the time they are tiny. Liz has a great video of a small child singing this song. Post it here for me, Liz!

I am a Child of God
I am a Child of God, and He has sent me here,
Has given me an earthly home, with parents kind and dear.
Lead me, guide me, walk beside me, help me find the way.
Teach me all that I must do, to live with him someday.

I am a Child of God, and so my needs are great.
Help me to understand His words, before it grows too late.
Lead me, guide me, walk beside me, help me find the way.
Teach me all that I must do, to live with him someday.

I am a Child of God, rich blessings are in store.
If I but learn to do His will, I’ll live with Him once more.
Lead me, guide me, walk beside me, help me find the way.
Teach me all that I must do, to live with him someday.

The truth can set us free. Free to be all that we can be. I have found harmony and peace reading this book. It has shown me a beautiful melody of life that is free to soar. I want to read and reread this book forever more! Thanks, Joe, for including this in our course.

References
Randall, N. & Pettit, M. (1957). I am a Child of God. Children’s songbook. (1989). Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. p.2.

Williamson, M. (2002). A return to love. New York: Harper Collins.

Zander, B., & Zander, R. S. (2000). The art of possibility: Transforming professional and personal life. New York: Penguin Books.

EMD613 Week 4 Reading The Board

This weeks reading really struck home to me, I have had so many issue with getting any kind of cooporation from my district. It felt like at times my district was against any kind of technology improvement. Well this weeks reading reminds me, of something that I have said many times to my students. I will often tell my students and my children, "In life there is really only one thing that you can control and that is your attitude". How you choice to reacte to something can make all the difference in a situation. Take a look at this video blog to hear more.

Wk4 Publishing/Leadership project part 3 of 3: I Found It

I found it, the peract place for me to present. Honolulu, Hawaii. Man would that be nice. Here is a little information about the conference. The 9th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education will be held from January 4th (Tuesday) to January 7th (Friday), 2011 at the Hilton Hawaiian Village® Beach Resort & Spa in Honolulu, Hawaii. Honolulu is located on the island of Oahu. Oahu is often nicknamed "the gathering place". The 2011 Hawaii International Conference on Education will once again be the gathering place for academicians and professionals from Education and related fields from all over the world.

The main goal of the 2011 Hawaii International Conference on Education is to provide an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various education related fields from all over the world to come together and learn from each other. An additional goal of the conference is to provide a place for academicians and professionals with cross-disciplinary interests related to education to meet and interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines.

Wk4 Publishing/Leadership project part 2 of 3: Where to present

Well I've spent about three days now looking for a conference that is offered on a cruise. I really love to go on cruises and since I would love to cruise I figured why not find a conference to present at on a cruise. After three days of looking I have decided to broaden my search. I have not had any luck with finding a cruise conference, so I will being looking for a land based conference in a great vacation site. I'm thinking about Florida or California. Then there is Hawaii, I would love to go to Hawaii. I don't really expect to get to go to any of these place for this conference presentation but I figured since I've must choise these are the places that I would like to go. Will see if I have any luck finding a conference in one of these places. I thing my order of priority is Hawaii, Florida and then Califonia. Wish me luck.

Wk4 Publishing/Leadership project part 1 of 3: Location is everything

For me the location of where I present is more important then the organization. Because my AR project was really not the final thing that I'm looking to accomplish in my classroom, I'm not really all that interested in presenting at this point in the process. But I understand that this is a requirement of the master program so I'm willing to submit and see what happens. With all this in mind, I understand that there is the possibility that I could get a acceptance from the place that I submit to so it has to be some place that I'm willing to travel to and do the presentation. So for me it's all about location. I'm looking into conferences that have location that I would love to visit and this way if I get an acceptance, I will be able to get a tax break on the cost of the travel.

EMD613 Week 3 Free response blog

Topic #1: Briefly share any experiences you’ve had when you’ve had a part in introducing a new program or a new way to do things at your job site. Please share any triumphs or frustrations you’ve had trying to improve the system or when you’ve pioneered or piloted some outside the norm.

This is easy for me because I’m the one at my school that is alway trying out something new. What I find is that some of my fellow teachers, love trying new things and some hate it. Most of the teachers I work with are very supportive of me trying new things as long as it does not mean they have to try something new. Well this year I introduced a program that came to be called, “summer school now”. It is basically, having student come in on a Saturday for four hours to make up work they missed to try and improve their grade so that they did not fail the class and therefor have to take summer school. As I expected, some teacher thought is was great and some did not like it. The ones that did like it, did like it because they did not feel they had the time to do another program to give student yet another break, when we already give them so many breaks already. Well when it was adjusted so that it did not really required that much more of the other teacher time they became much more supportive. We did the program and it was a great success. Now we are offering the program after each of the six week grading periods and the best thing is the teacher are now getting paid for the extra time they are spending on the program. It tool a lot of work to get started and there was the risk that it would not be successful but if we don’t try we’ll never know.

EMD613 Week 3 Project of the Week

I want to start out by saying, "I HATE WORD COUNTS ON ASSIGNMENTS !!!" I remember when I was in high school, I would struggle to find extra words so I could get to the word count that was needed for the assignment. Well this weeks project was the summary page and the word count needed to be 500-700 words. I got the summary page finished and submitted. I think it looks good but it was not as easy as I thought it was going to be. The problem for me was not getting 500 words but instead the problem was staying under 700 words. My first draft was over 1200 words. The 2nd draft was about 900 words and the final draft was still about 800 words. I really did not want to leave out any of the content in the final draft but I still needed to cut another 100 words. Finally want I had to do was take out all the extra little words and do some clean up and I got the word count down to where I needed it to be. The process was frustrating, I found myself reading the summary over and over again till I was so frustrated. I just could not find any shorter way to say what I needed to say. Now I face the same issue with the final presentation. It may be too long or it may be too short. This is why I really hate word counts on assignment.

EMD613 Week 3 Response to Karlene

Karlene Young Wk 3 Project frustrations – Long windedness

I have a problem with being a little too prolific. I had all the ins and outs of my summary completed then I realized I hadn’t checked the word count. I had over 1300 words and it’s supposed to be 500-700 words. Yikes! Now the opposite problem faces me. I found a site I would like to send an article to for publication. It can only be 500-700 words, but Full Sail’s requirements say 2000 words for the publication project. ARGG!!! Help, my edit button is on overload. Any suggestions fellow students?

EMD613 Week 3 Response to Taylor

wk3 leadership project-Oh boy

Here I sit, still staring at the overwhelming task of getting something published. I know I could bang out an article. That's not the problem. It's just that right now there are so many other things that are being demanded of me from this program, my other masters program, work, my life outside of these other areas, that I just haven't had time to focus. I think a personal day will be in order to devote time to that. Perhaps this week. Perhaps tomorrow. It's tough, but I will get this done.

EMD613 Week 3 Reading The Spark

I’ve often explained to my student’s that, “at some point in life you will have to decide if you will just make money or you will make a difference”. I made that choice when I chose teaching over the world of high finance. For me, teaching science is only a tool to get me in the door, what I really hope to teach student are the lesson of life that are far more important than any science lesson. The idea of, “Enrollment” is one of those life lessons. I love how the author put it, in his ended statement of the chapter, when he refers to Enrollment as lighting a spark from person to person, scattering light in all directions. This for me is what teaching offers, a chance to light spark in the future generation. Just this pass Friday, I was speaking to a group of students is one of my classes about the fact that so many of their classmates seem to have this attitude of indifference. This is one of the greatest challenges facing this current generation. So many students don’t have a spark for anything. This is what makes the idea of Enrollment such an important idea we must help this generation to check the sparks that will become the future issue that they will choose to stand for. I believe this is the most important job that any teacher can do.

EMD613 Week 2 Project of the Week

Week 3 Project, AR SUMMARY

A summary, is a shorter version of the original. It is suppose to help the readers to understand what the original work. But with the AR Project I'm not sure a brief summary can give a reader a good understanding of the process of my AR project. I feel confident that I can complete a summary of my work and accomplish the goal of the summary page of the AR website but I'm not sure that my summary page will be a good representation of what I want readers to know about my AR project. It will be difficult to put into a short summary page all of the factors that went into my AR project. Again I understand that much of what I'm making reference to here will be contained more in a reflection rather than a summary page. My concern is that if the reader uses the summary page to decide if they want to spend the time to read the rest of my pages on my AR website, then the summary page will not do the job that I want it to do. I know that this is no the job that we are being asked to do with this page but I also know that this is often the method that I use to decide if I'm interested in spending time full exploring the content of a website. I guess it is possible that this is not the case with other people so I will trust the process and put anyway my concerns. Maybe I can add some content to one of my pages to accomplish the task of hooking the reader. Possibly the welcome page. The format and content of my welcome page was produced very early on in my AR project so it may be appropriate to make some changes to this page to better reflect my AR project and hook the reader interest in my AR website.

EMD613 Week 2 Free response blog

CD Ownership, Music Sharing or Spontaneous Listening

Well when it comes to music I have come from tape to CD and now mostly I used MP3, as for where I get my MP3 I say mostly from Peer-to-Peer networks like Lime Wire or if someone just sends me a MP3. I have also gotten a few songs from Itunes but not many because I don’t like to pay for my music. I did get a bunch (about 75 songs) for free from a service called e-music. There gave me one of those free trails where you get to keep 75 downloads even is you don’t keep the service. I thought that was real cool.
As far as how I use music, mostly I find myself listening to music when I workout at the gym. Often I listen to music with Pandora, using my iphone. I really like how they choose songs for you based on the songs you have already listened to.
I also listen to praise and worship music which really helps me feel closer to God. Music in general is important to me but I don’t get to spend as much time listening as I would like.

EMD613 Week 2 Comment on Bonita Blair blog posting

Bonita said: I would have to say that I am a CD collector more than any of the other selections listed above. It isn’t that I’m not interested in music; it’s taken up a big part of my life. More often than not, I am a movie watcher, and I listen intently to the soundtracks of movies I watch. Also, I am one of those annoying people who hum constantly, and in no specific order. I think in music sometimes, trying to match snips of phrases I hear with lyrics to songs I know. For example, in my previous life, I often had to give motivational speeches to groups of sales managers. Sales were down, so to motivate the group I rewrote the lyrics to the music of the song “Fame,” and turned it into a song for “Sales.” Everyone in the conference hall had to sing it, and one of the vice presidents ran to get the president of the company to hear us sing for “Sales.” He thought we were all nuts, I am sure, but he appreciated the idea.

Gary Commented:

Good idea to have people sing for motivation, I often have my students sing both for motivation and just for laughs. I find that chemistry can be a stressful subject for some student and adding a song to the middle of a stressful time in class really helps.

THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 2010 - 07:34 PM

EMD613 Week 2 Comment on GLStrom blog posting

The ability to give seems such a rewarding experience that you would imagine being done by everyone on a daily basis. After all, we all appreciate receiving, but of course that doesn't occur without giving on the other end. As enjoyable an experience as it can be, it is not something all of us do consistently. In chapter three of The Art of Possibility the authors reflect on this practice by suggesting that we give A's so people have the room to realize themselves. I must admit that to me the most valuable thing we have to give is our time, and I feel people generally appreciate this. I never placed much emphasis on giving grades for the theater and photography I taught because it is quite impossible to put a letter or number on artistic expression. What is measured is the caring, time, improvement, ability and finally presentation of final work. They shared their gift with me as I did them, and the anxiety of taking chances and competing with others was minimized. Another important part of education is giving students the ability to overcome fears and believe in themselves and their abilities. When I consider where these fears come from I come back to the fact that what people worry about is not measuring up,about making mistakes and ultimately, about being judged. One of the greatest compliments a student ever shared with me was her love of my class because it was the one time a day where she didn't feel judged. In sports, classes, lunch, at home and at work she felt like she always had to perform to measure up lest she fail. She admits to always being anxious because that wasn't really her, and in my class the mask came off and she was able to be herself. Eight years later she let me know how much that meant to her and how she will never forget how it felt. She gave me one of the reward of teaching we all hear about and hope for, and while can never spend are priceless.

EDM613 Week 2 central self

The idea that deep within all of us is a central self has all the markings of a King Arthur and the Knights of the round table tale, the problem I see fear is that it's just that a tale. It's not that I don't believe in the possibility of a central self that's better than the one that the world sees on most days it's more that I have a hard time believing that this central self is the real part of you that wants to get out. And even more unbelievable is the author's assertion that accessing a central self is as simple a process as he describes in his book. In the story he told about the two business partners and their conflict about the contract and how he was able to resolve that by accessing their central selves was for me a little unbelievable. I had our time coming to grips with how easily they were changed from the self-centered self-absorbed man that he initially described into the ultra-mistake Cooperative central self people that they became all in less than an hour. Again not that I don't believe that humans are striving to become better than they are and that the goal of all this shouldn't be gain access to your central self but for most people this is an lifetime journey and not one that can be made in less than an hour.

This being said I love Rule Number 6, to be able after oneself is a critical skill that everyone needs to learn but it is especially important if you're going to teach at today's high schools. Many times I find myself bouncing between entertaining my students and educating my students and the art of good entertainment involves the ability to be able to make jokes often times at the expense of yourself. If I find myself taking the life of teaching to serious it can become very depressing and frustrating very quickly so the ability to take things lighthearted and not so serious is indeed a skill that I value.

Today I spoke to a few key people at my school about the possiblity of using Udutu to create our own learning module. I was putting out some feelers and WOW was I surprised at how positive the response was. First thet were all suprised they you could even do this, they really had no idea that this kind of thing was possible. Second and more important, they though it was a great idea, they could think of serveral ways that the school as well as the district could use these online Learning modules. They really loved the idea of having local control over the content and how the content was presented. They also loved the idea that this could all be done for free. I think they are still a little sceptical about the free part. But they gave me some contact info for some people at the district office and encouraged me to contact them. I'm still try to feel out the best way to approach people at the district level with this. I know that the way you approach people can sometimes make a difference. More to come but this is a great start.

EMD613 Week 1 Free Choice Blog Posting

EMD613 Media Asset Creation:

Here are my first thought about this months course. I’m going to take a risk and maybe trash my grade up front by blogging about my first thoughts on the current course I find myself. I need to preface my comments by admitting that I had some preconception about this month’s course going into the course. It was suggested to me, by a source I choose not to reveal, that this months course was going to be all about putting together our AR project and the website that goes with the AR project. This same source even suggested to me that I not worry about completing my AR website prior to this months course because there would be time to spend on my AR website during this months course. With this in mind I came into this month excepting to put behind me all the extra stuff we usually have to do and be able to focus on my AR project. So I was quite disappointed when I found out about all the extra non-AR requirements for this months course. Had I not had expectation going into the course I would not have felt this way but none-the-less this is where I’m at and because I like most everyone else am working for the grade, will work long and hard to complete all the assignments on time and to the best of my abilities. On a positive note, I was glad to see that the CD added a due date message to FSO because I was/am very confused about what is due when. For example, I had no idea that the 5 blog posting where all due by tonight at midnight. I got on today and just happened to check the announcements and saw the due date announcement and when I checked it, WOW I had some work to do. So anyway this is where I am at, I know some of you have comments about this so be brave and let me know.

EMD613 Week 1 Weekly Project AR Status

EMD613 Week 1 Comment on Katherine Pine blog posting

The book, The Art of Possibility has a lot to say about life in general and how we approach it. I can definitely see how these ideals can be incorporated and used in an educational setting as well. I think it is overly important that everyone sees possibilities instead of barriers. Think of all of the issues that are around us that we wish we could do something about and this sort of learned helplessness that society is in that feels like there’s nothing one person can really do to make changes, so why try? This book is telling us all to try. To put aside the measurements and designs of a society that would hold us back by regimenting and exacting how and what can be done. Instead, we need to step in and say, anything can be done.
With this in mind, the idea of giving yourself an A means that there is no longer a measure of your success over your head and you can be free to test yourself, challenge yourself, and surprise yourself. It is not about the destination, but the journey as said before. It’s time to move beyond the expectations of a grade for any area in which you are learning and accept the real-life consequences and effects as the whole sum of what you are learning and to put value in that.

SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 2010
1 COMMENT
GARY MILTON
I agree and would add to what you have said by saying that some of life greatest lesson can only be learn through failure or at least what the world would label as failure. I think it is time to change what we label as failure. I have often told my students that the only person who fails is the person who refuses to try. Because if you refuse to try you have denied yourself the chance to success and more importantly to learn. We must begin to reach past what we know is true to what we think could be true. We need to dare to dream and then reach for that dream with the expectation that we have in us what it takes to make that dream come true.
SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 2010 - 05:37 PM

EMD613 Week 1 Comment on Rita Martinez blog posting

I think this idea of granting others A’s would go far in helping to re-establish respectful interactions in the world today. It seems like too many people are not open to perspectives that are different from their own. The idea of tolerance got twisted somewhere along the way to mean that others need to tolerate me, but I don’t need to tolerate others. I am not trying to make a blanket statement and say that everyone is like this, but whether you are in a classroom or at the doctor’s office or at the store, it does seem to be that there is more of an air of disrespect for other human beings than respect.

I attended a training today about safety protocol at the community college where I work. We went over things like what to do in the case of emergency situations, like a hostage taker or active shooter on campus, and how to handle disruptive students in the classroom. During the presentation, the Dean of Students mentioned that the many of the problems in higher education today are because the students are not respectful to each other, to faculty, to staff, to security, to administration, and even sometimes to themselves. He said that many of the students that are attending the school operate under the assumption that they own the process and the faculty and staff. They don’t have to (and are not going to) do what is asked of them. Now, I am not saying that I believe that this is true of all students, but I would agree that there has been a shift in the mentality of the student population at large.

I do try to operate by giving my students or others that I encounter A’s, I just wish it felt like more people were operating with the same motivation.

Gary Milton

I understand what you are saying here and I totally agree. I experience this quite often at the high school that I work at. I hear quite a bit from students that, I (the teacher) get in trouble if students don't pass the teacher class. I'm not sure if this is exactly what you are saying here but I think it goes toward the general mentally of today students, that they own the system and they can do what the wish. However that being said, I don't want to let the student's attitude determine my attitude. I see this a lot with others that I work with. I think the the idea behind giving people an "A" is not to give the "A" so that you can get the same back from them but instead to free yourself to partner with them and not have to stand as their judge. I find that the truth is, most of the time my student's action are not about me and therefor my student's action should never dictate my response. This is easy to say and hard to do but it is my goal.

Sunday, April 11, 2010 - 03:19 PM

EMD613 Week 1: Giving An "A"

"In the realm of possibility, the literal or figurative giving of an A aligns teacher with student", this quote from Zander's book, "The Art of Possibility" define the goal of teaching for me. I love partnering with my students on the journey of discovery that chemistry offers. But all to often I find myself falling short of this goal and this is where another of the many great messages from this book, the message of giving yourself an A, should serve as a reminder of the real meaning behind the expression, giving an A. I often find myself telling my students, "you are more than the grade that you have in my class" and on the good days I find myself really believing this and this belief changes everything. The two students in the picture to the left are both below average students but on this day we were on a quest together to discover the answer to a chemistry question. We were partner, "in an effort to produce an outcome"(Zander, 2000).

All to often teacher's find themselves so focused on the grades a student has that they forget to notice the student behind the grade. I know I have been guilty but this last semester a personal tragedy with one of my students reminded me of the importance of the relationship with the students. It was the beginning of a long weekend for the students but the teacher's were not off, we were required to be at school for training and a teacher workday. The training began that day with an announcement of a fatal car accident that involved several students from our school. One of my students was sitting next to a young boy who died in the accident. After the shock I drop everything to go visit with this student and make sure she knew that I was there for her. I was amazed that her first concern was that she would miss school and get behind in my class. The words that I spoke next changed everything for our relationship, I told her, "somethings are more important than school" and you are one of those things. She understood, she would always have an A with me no matter what her grade in my class. I really love when my relationships with my students progress to this point but for most students it takes almost the whole school year before we get to this point. The message of the first three chapter of Zander's book, "The Art of Possibility" is that this can be a paradigmatic shift toward a non-judgmental lifestyle.

Test. This is a test to make sure this works. I have set up my phone to be able to send post to my blogger blog. This is very cool. So let see if it works.