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March 31, 2004
Inquiry Based Learning
I have always been an advocate of Inquiry Based Learning. In this shot Hillary and Brittany are installing a CD Burner in a computer that was donated to our class. My most recent grant from the Federal Government, a Service Learning proposal, paid for the tools, the CD Burners, the digital cameras, and the thumb drives that the Tech Kids are using to service the equipment around campus.
The students used the instructions that came with the burners, a whole lot of Inquiry skills and common sense, and some guidance from our #1 Tech Kid, Ethan. This year we have installed ten burners, dozens of hard drives, and have ghosted literally over one hundred computers at school keeping them running and preparing the school to be at the fore front of technology integration in education.
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March 30, 2004
A New Chair for Class
Abbi and Kristen are learning how to put together a basic office chair in Yearbook Class. Kristen kept asking for power tools and yea they read the directions.
PS The chair sits perfectly! :-)
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Pictures from Norwayne 8th Grade Dance
The pictures from last Friday's Norwayne 8th Grade Dance have been updated. Those of you with dial-up connections should have an easier time now.
Click the photo or here to see what you look like all cleaned up.
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March 28, 2004
Coach Matt Smith
The hardest thing in life is the one thing that is truely unavoidable, the end of our earthly life. Yesterday we bid final farewells to Coach Matt Smith.
The pastor characterized Matt's carefree attitude perfectly and I was fine until he discussed Matt's giving nature and his dedication to youth athletics. I hadn't let it be real to me until that moment. I had walked in a fog since the phone call came in early Thursday morning. It's not like I was in denial; I simply refused to think about it. I didn't want to think about the Coach's clinics we attended or all of the ballgames we had been to. I didn't want to remember being left at Goldsboro High School or Matt talking about how demanding I was of the Student Managers as we sped to a ballgame with a Denali load of crying girls in the back. In my mind, I could avoid the reality of it all by not thinking about it. But we can not avoid the unavoidable.
Matt was a great guy, a loving husband, a devoted family man, a friend without compromise, a coach to young men who need leadership, and above all that a cheerful spirit in a world of blase people.
He looks down on us, wishing we were not sad, but we can not help but to grieve for our own loss.
Matt has touched so many people and we will miss him more than mere words can express.
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March 27, 2004
Norwayne Cobra Image
I found this image on images.google.com and thought it would make a good logo for our new name badges (with a little photoshop tweaking, of course.)
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