#k-12 school year for teachers ended last week. My year ends tomorrow. New term of #AdultESOL / #AdultESL starts (for me) on Saturday.
#CyberSecurity class started last week. So far, so good. Pretty interesting. For this #CollegeCreditPlus program, I have to do 1 class in the fall, 2 in the spring, and the final one next summer. While working 60 hours a week. Not looking forward to that spring term at all.
Luckily, I've listened to #SecurityNow with @SGgrc for over 10 years.
#K12 school year winding down. #AdultESOL term winding down. Lots of grading to do. And, the department is moving to a new building, on a different campus.
Starting masters degree course in #CyberSecurity in a couple of weeks.
Busy is going to continue for a while, I think.
Getting caught up on stuff I fell behind on while teaching that extra #AdultESOL class January to March.
For example, finally finished a script for #Google Sheets that will create Forms in the given languages automagically. Easiest way I know of to get multilingual Forms.
Next, a Sheets script to create Forms and email to editors and respondents.
Then, I'll create the diplomas in #Scribus. Use #ScribusGenerator (https://github.com/berteh/ScribusGenerator/) to "mail merge" them.
My TTh #AdultESOL class finished Thursday. My SSu class finished today! I have two weekends off and have my TTh nights back (not doing that class again anytime soon - just too much during the regular #k12 school year).
So, of course, the first thing I did this afternoon was have #ChatGPT help me come up with #Mozilla #Firefox userChrome.js to make the keyboard shortcuts more like #emacs.
Also created a script to grab webcam frames for #conky to display (#fluxbox #linux) on the desktop.
time to grade about 30 #AdultESOL paragraphs.
If I have time, I'm going to put a few through #ChatGPT and see how closely it agrees with me.
Super busy this #AdultESOL term, but end is in sight. Final writing test for weekend class done today (now just have to grade 20 papers!), final grammar exam for weekday class is this coming Thursday.
Of course, still have #k12 day job - oh, lovely, the SAT is this Wednesday. I should probably also plan my reading class for this week. And check the #EnglishLearner testing calendar for this week.
I want a #Nnedi (AI agent from my short story) -like helper, please and thank you. Sooner = gooder.
Too busy with #k12 work plus 2 extra #AdultESOL classes each week to really get much else done outside of those classes. (Have made some new stuff for those classes, though.)
Not going to do 2 full adult ESOL classes during the k12 school year again any time soon. One on the weekend, that's my limit.
Also, standardized testing has started, so k12 work is so not fun for the next 6 weeks. Have had moderate success not eating the pop-tarts I get for the students, at least.
Busy week. #k12 state testing coming up next week, not looking forward to that. #AdultESOL classes going well. Redid the writing rubric from a vague table ("some errors", "mostly correct" type language) to a much more specific checklist type. #ChatGPT translated it to the languages my students use, and I learned a bit about using #XeLaTeX for non-western languages.
Short week for #k12 classes this week. Struggled to get my #HighSchool #EnglishLearners to free read today, but I expect that is mostly down to a 2-day week and it being Friday.
Prepping for #AdultESOL. Got a lot done during the 2 days off for weather, but now have to redo the course calendar that I just redid b/c we missed class on Tuesday. We missed Thursday also, for non-weather reasons, and so the redone calendar needs to be re-redone. Good chance to teach prefixes, at least.
Some of my #AdultESOL students are not comfortable with #GoogleDrive or #GoogleDocs, so I made this short video for them. It covers opening Google Drive from Gmail, creating a document, and sharing the doc.
Got a lot done on #AdultESOL prep (for both classes). Even recorded a video to help students get started with #GoogleDrive and #GoogleDocs. Created a couple of brainstorming worksheets, too.
I think I'm finding my footing with the #BESL8 class. It is an intro to writing class for students who are approaching college-ready English skills.
If I have some time tomorrow, I'll do some work on my #AgeVerification website idea. I'd like to get that on #NeoCities this coming week
#K12 second semester and new #AdultESOL term off to a busy start. Teaching two levels of #AdultESL this term, one on weekend, one weekday evenings.
Unfortunately, state mandated end of term testing starts in February and basically continues until May.
Got a lot of work done today, too. Some financial stuff, some #AdultESOL prep, and even got mostly done with a video for teachers about unzipping office documents to get the pictures out. (Happens to me all the time, especially with presentation slides that I am trying to translate.)
For the record, #LibreOffice Impress has right click => Save for images, but Google Slides does not. Of course, right clicking on 25 images to save them all is not fun or a good use of time.
Got a lot of work done on #AdultESOL #BasicESL6 and #BasicESL8 classes today. Next up, prepping Reading class for my #HighSchool #EnglishLearners.
It is going to be a very busy spring semester.
Need to be planning my second semester classes (#HighSchool #ESOL and #AdultESOL at the #CommunityCollege), so of course, I just spent a couple of hours adding several more fortune-mod files to my fortune web page.
Also practiced some #python - created a script to convert from the fortune format to #json.
Still some editing,
issues. But, that's going to have to be for another day.
What is the term for actors such as #JenettGoldstein, who had non-headlining roles in several classic movies? Is there a term?
Goldstein was in #Aliens2, #Terminator2, (#Terminator2JudgementDay), and #TitanicFilm, among others.
#AdultESOL class finished today, so watching Aliens 2 with the dogs while pretending to prep a midterm for #K12 reading class this week.
#OhioTesolConference day 2 was another great day of #k12 #ESOL #education and #AdultESOL professional development.
Great to see colleagues I've not seen since the conference last year. Great to see how people are using #GenAI and #LLMs like #ChatGPT to support #EnglishLearners and other #EMEB / #ESL students.
Also, the venue provided #coffee all day! Much appreciated.
New #AdultESOL class started yesterday. Interesting group of students. Should be a fun 8 weeks.
I'm off today (between #AdultESOL terms), so Yoshiko took the day off so we could have some time together.
One of many results: #ramen from #YoshikosKitchen. Not sure the best way to describe the soup - chuuka, maybe? Chicken broth with Chinese dashi. Probably closest to shio ramen, but not shio ramen?
Includes negi, memma, and chingensai, with powdered black pepper sprinkled on the top.
Delicious++ datta.
Request for employers:
Please stop telling your #AdultESOL students that they have mandatory overtime on the days that they signed up for #ESOL / #ESL classes. They paid money for those classes, and often can't easily make them up.
Yes, this is happening to my students this term. It happens every term, but more in the fall (in my experience).
