finished final assignment for #CyberSecurity class. Next up (starting in January) is "CYSC-630 Information Risk Management". I'm worried because it is about 6 weeks but 4 graduate level credit hours. Will I sleep?
Good news, though: #AdultESOL class ended last weekend. #K-12 classes ended last Thursday (aka the day before yesterday). As of 19:50 today, I am officially completely and totally on break for the next two weeks.
Second #k12 snow day this month, third if you count yesterday for my weekend #AdultESOL job. Only three days of classes with students this week, then #WinterBreak.
We have a long list of things to get done during the break; we'll get a head start on them today.
Need to prep for classes (#ESOL and #CyberSecurity); update some writings; and make some videos for #teacher #EducationalResources.
Off this weekend and next; we're between #AdultESOL terms. Class for next term is full, so looking forward to that starting up.
Yoshiko took today off, so we're going to have a fun day of doing stuff around the house, taking it easy, maybe running a few errands, walking the dogs, and #cooking.
I have a backlog of #YoshikosKitchen pics to post here. Will have more by tonight and will try to post some today or tomorrow.
(also doing: encfs => gocryptfs and #CyberSecurity homework)
Wow. All the big packages updating on my #Gentoo #Linux box. Been about 20 hours, 165 of 201 completed.
That's what I get for not updating for about 10 days.
Oh, and encfs is depreciated and going bye-bye. Luckily I have next weekend off and will have some time to switch all my local backups to #GoCryptFS.
I need to submit my workbook to the print shop for next #AdultESOL term.
#CyberSecurity class starts tomorrow.
International dinner at school in two weeks.
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
#AdultESOL term is winding down --- four classes left, 3 of them tests. So, lots of grading coming up. Need to prep the material booklet for the next term and send it to the print shop soon.
#HispanicHeritageMonth starts tomorrow (9/15), so will be busy with that a bit at #K12 #school this week.
Just redid my UPS configuration on #Gentoo #Linux. Love Gentoo, but sometimes having to do so much config'ing by hand can be a lot.
Now to update and backup the other computers.
Just about time for the final #AdultESOL class of the summer term. Great students, fun classes. Next weekend off, and then start the cycle again with a new group of 20 adult #immigrants #EnglishLearners
Also, go back to #k12 #ESOL (#ESL) job in early August. Looking forward to another year of working with new and returning English Learners (and their families) there, too.
The #CyberSecurity class (to teach college level to #HighSchool students) ends in about 2 weeks. Next starts in September.
#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.
