Mostly Wet.

A very wet morning followed by a brighter afternoon.

My house blitzing has now moved to the sitting room though as it's all open plan I'm not even sure if that is the right term. Living space sounds like something an architect might say while 'great room' which I've heard on American  home shows sounds far too grandiose. So I think I'll stick with living room, kitchen and 'the bit where the table is'. Anyway today I cleaned, waxed and polished the antique desk under the big mirror.  That I did both before and after our Welsh class. We had a minor event during class when our tutor lost her signal and one of the class was host for a while. We chatted for a bit, in English, naughty us until the message came through to have our tea break early after which our tutor was back on line. That's the problem with technology, it only takes a minor blip for everything to go wrong. When I was teaching I got the feeling that I was thought to be too stuck in my ways when I made sure I had a physical whiteboard by my side that I could write on rather than relying on the interactive whiteboards in every classroom. I would be teaching in different classrooms where the boards seemed to have slightly different set ups and it was very easy for a glitch to develop. I did use the IWBs but would have any pictures printed out so that when things didn't work I could keep on going. I also think it was better to do so for maths where children might come up with all sorts of ways of tackling a problem or need a number of explanations. Plus we encouraged the children to 'show their working out' in many different ways and it was good for them to see how I recorded their methods. I may have hated the target setting and victimisation in my last job but I so miss working with enquiring minds.

Off soon for a fun hour of leaping about to disco music.