Learn Tech with Ruth

Happy Valentine's Day! That's this week and I will do some French and German Valentine's Day activities. I found and edited some Quizlet sets with useful expressions and then created a Studystack and a BingoBaker as well as a Gimkit game from those. I also ordered a bunch of Valentine's hearts that have a space in the middle for a Valentine's Day message to share. So that will be cute to do on Valentine's Day, the last day before a 4 day weekend for the students. Those hearts didn't cost a thing since I had a giftcard- suprised me too. We had two short weeks here, one for snow and one for sickness. It will definitely be difficult to reel the students back in for some serious work in our classes. Three four day weeks for me: Next Friday is in-service day, then President's Day, followed by a teacher training on the 27th. So that will be nice in a way, but difficult in another. Somehow we have lost the continuity that had sparked interest at the beginning o

I really tried. I tried to post more on this blog. It is discouraging though when you realize very few or no one is even reading this. Perhaps I have too much other stuff going on, such as our YouTube channel, teaching at three different places and attempting to even have a personal life. I realized the other day at our UT alumni meeting that I have not much of a personal life so I will make a concerted effort to get out more, probably hike more in the state parks. We ordered a state park passport and do not have anything marked as done except for Fort Loudoun State Park which is down the road from here. Today is a marvelous day here in East Tennessee with 60 degree temperatures. Tomorrow is supposed to be just as beautiful. We did go out to the lake and walked three miles, just gorgeous. Everyone had a big smile on their face there. It's funny how good weather makes people feel better about life. So yesterday we were supposed to begin the Steve Kaufman 90 day challenge. Unfortunat