Aaron Smith @ NEW HOME! @theartguy@is.aaronbsmith.com

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Just in case you need it:

This week I was reminded that my students need a lot more practice giving constructive criticism.

While they are very skilled at pointing out problems, some additional reteaching and practice is needed for them to offer up paths for improvement instead of merely saying something was bad.

We are still learning.

I've had this account for weeks and it STILL amuses me that my web address is

(http://) is . aaron b smith (.com/@) the art guy

and my user name is

the art guy (@) is . aaron b smith (.com)

So depending on which one you use, it's the question or the answer.

Video games are nice and all but have you ever seen a student thrilled that they could change some HTML code to make a webpage's background be any color they wanted?

So yeah, that's how my day went.

Today was a good day.

Media Arts students critiqued video projects, and every student that came to me with a login issue in my K-5 classes got it resolved in time to work on the lesson.

Now I just need to figure out why my GPS doesn't work in the morning but works in the afternoon.

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So how many schools have a coding project because the students demanded it, and said project is getting kicked off by the principal coming in to talk about coding and how he uses it?

Because I know of one, now.

You're allowed to be jealous.

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Good morning.

You got this.

Be well.

It is 4:27 PM on a Friday and my grading for the week is complete.

I'm kind of nervous about how long I'll be able to keep this up.

Current schedule has me seeing elementary students every other week, so Monday will be my last day teaching "Welcome to school, here are the rules and procedures" lessons.

I am so ready for them to start DOING things.

(Granted Kindergarten will still be learning passwords for the next 6 weeks or more, but still...)

Huh.

Boosted toots in my TL are showing the avatar of the booster, not the original author.

That's new, isn't it?

Went to bed at a more decent hour than usual.

Slept in 1/2 an hour.

This is not how that's supposed to work!