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Summer blossoms (Celebrate!)

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

Hello everyone!
Well, hopefully you’ll be reading more blogposts here, more regularly, from today onward!
Please forgive a little boasting: I did it! I successfully completed my master’s in Adult Education and Training! Done!
It has been so nice to have a few more hours each week to try and catch up on [...]

Holly’s Action Research Proposal — VoiceThread / PowerPoint

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Hello everyone!
Below is a VoiceThread presentation of my Action Research Proposal — the culminating project of my Master’s in Adult Education and Training research. “Implementing Worthwhile and Effective Online Learning Opportunities for Adult ESOL Learners”
The original PowerPoint is much ‘cleaner’ and I am happy to share it with you upon request.
The VoiceThread has [...]

ramblings…

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Hello blog, hello world!
I have been remiss at posting here. sigh.
I have all of the usual excuses: Life’s been busy. I’ve been feeling overwhelmed! (and so on and so on)
However, today I read this beautiful blogpost and it made me want to “connect.”
I am busy. I am feeling overwhelmed. [...]

“Grand” treatment?

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

I want to relate an experience from an outing earlier this week, one I’m still pondering.
background information:
I am 54 years old.
I was on this outing with my parents.
The purpose of the outing was to try and test and hopefully purchase a new mattress for my mom.
setting:
a furniture store in a small to mid-sized city, on [...]

Little Women (Katherine Hepburn); tearjerker

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

OK, I’ll admit it… I’m a sap for “tearjerker” movies.
I teach adult ESOL (English Speakers of Other Languages).
Some of my students recently read an abbreviated version of Little Women and watched the newer version DVD.
I ordered the older version from Netflix and watched it this morning. http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Little_Women/60011720
I cried. I “blatted like a [...]

Did you know that…

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

…a very interesting video, somewhat disturbing…
I learned of it via Twitter…
If a sequel is / has been made, Twitter and tweets might just be mentioned…
reactions? questions? comments?

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“Pick-me-ups”

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Need a few pick-me-ups?
Here are some I’ve received recently — flowers from my husband, video URLs from daughter and friends…

These three video clips might bring a few smiles, might put some bounce in your step, might have you humming merrily away for the next several days!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z0h1NNk1Ik
and
http://video.yahoo.com/network/100000089?v=4816051&l=100022574
and
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2539741
Enjoy!
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