Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech

Way back when, I posted a little piece on a typical day for me. So I got this idea from Scott Hodge and decided to put my own twist on things. I think this would be a neat activity for kids. I haven’t done much with photo essays so this is really my first attempt.

Basically the premise is that I take a photo at the top of every hour and photograph whatever it is I’m looking at at the time. It begins at 8:00am and finished at 10:00pm. Here we go.

8:00am Finished bowl of Special K.

9:00am Organizing Learning Team Webpage (maybe I should clean my screen!)

10:00am Meeting with Barry and Jan regarding Community Use Policy

11:00am Returning email

12:00pm Driving home for lunch

1:00pm Looking at note for Administrator’s meeting

2:00pm Elementary Administrator’s meeting

3:00pm Meeting with Barry, Ryan, Jeff regarding Thursday’s meeting
Forget to take a picture!

4:00pm Checking my newsreader

5:00pm Picked up daughter from volleyball

6:00pm Taking the dog for a run

7:00pm Watching my son play High School Volleyball

8:00pm Picked up youngest daughter from Gymnastics

9:00pm One more trip out to take my son to piano lessons (which is dirtier, my van or screen?)

10:00pm Uploading photos, encoding video, watching the NFL Network

You can view all the images in larger size by clicking them or going to this page.

I hate John Mayer. Actually I really like his music but last year, my daughter and friends went down to hear him in Bozeman, Montana with our van and the transmission blew. $4,000 later and two trips down to Bozeman and I had my van back. That’s the short version. It also doesn’t include the tickets I bought for my daughter to hear him in Toronto tomorrow night. I wish I could go.

Anyway, it looks like John Mayer is looking to collaborate with anyone who can write some music for his lyrics. He’s opening up his lyrics for anyone to write and wants to hear what they’ve come up with. He says:

I’m inviting all aspiring songwriters to write their own chords and melodies around my lyrics. Go ahead, I’m not using them. You can tell people that we wrote a song together.

So social networking isn’t just for geeks or educators. If only I could write music.