​ I referenced praying recently on my discussion post. I know, this may be a strong statement, but the praying I'm doing about accessing technology easily and having a blessed time while doing it has been very effective! These statements are not at all meant to proselytize; they are simply to record and express my journey. I am not one of those people to whom the tech has come easily; I am, HOWEVER, becoming one! It has simply been that I've needed to see this computer and

​I realized today that knowing our planetary locations in online learning makes our world a bit smaller - doesn't it? And it makes our identity as global citizens that much more accessible, too. People have been saying for decades that the Internet makes the world smaller as we are all so much more in touch with each other across the globe because of it. My own experience with online learning and the Internet means I have so much information at my fingertips to imagine how

​Rubrics. They are expectations, aren't they? Expectations about what we want our students to learn. The clearer the expectation, the easier it is for students to know what their teacher expects from them. This is a very fair system, is it not? The whole question of expectations can be a fraught one, though, depending on whether the expectations are stated or unstated, basically. I once knew a minister who was having difficulty, as many ministers do, with the question in