Writing, Reading, Reflection

Last night, I created a great journal for my protege. I’m a mentor for a first year teacher this year. She’s a science teacher, but since the first year is so very important, and I’m a writing teacher, I knew she must have a journal to reflect in. Plus, we can use it as a way to record her first year and discuss what’s happening in her room. Of course, I couldn’t just hand her a composition book, though. I covered it with great paper, with a giant butterfly, in some of my favorite colors–green, orange and yellow, all sepia like.

Now, though, I really want to scan it and show Stacey, my very best friend, what I did. I have a scanner, a lovely one, sitting right here, but I can’t use it. For the last two years, I was an instructional coach for the district and since I had to do so much work at home, I had a laptop, and it worked with the scanner. Now, that I’m back in the classroom, I don’t have the laptop and the scanner won’t work with the iMac I’m using, which is so very sad!  If I achieve national board certification this year, though, I’ll get a nice stipend, and I think I’ll buy a laptop. I so loved the mobility of it. I could sit on the porch and write with it. Now, I feel changed to the desk.

I’m going tomorrow or Saturday, though, to look for a digital camera. I need one of those, too. Stacey wants to see my art room as it progresses, and I need a way to photograph my art projects. I love my “old fashion” camera, but without the scanner to copy my prints, I have to do something!  I’m so far behind in the technology…