I guess I will find out if my partner and our company president reads this blog. (I'll bet he doesn't.) If he did, he would be better prepared for what he will be presenting on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Of course, if he doesn't read it until the workshop, or even worse, one of the students points it out to him, I will be very glad I am not in North Dakota close by where he can hit me with something.
It is 10:30 p.m. on Sunday night and I am still working on our latest workshop, Adulthood, Aging and Disability. It has been a day of looking at graphic photographs of ulcerated pressure sores and trying to pick the right one that gives an idea of the seriousness of the problem without making the reader throw up.
I added a Virtual Field Trip on Diabetes. How can you not like a website on Diabetes with an article that begins,
The Virtual Field Trips are fun to do. I wish I had more time for each one. The workshop I am finishing right now is our last one under the NIDRR grant. We have some hours budgeted for revising the website after this and that is one of the thousand things I want to do. Wonder how many I will finish before we run out of money?
Doing the section on Diabetes also made me realize how much work we have done on this website over the past two years. We had 135 references on our site to Diabetes alone, newsletter articles we wrote, web pages, fact sheets, guidebooks and so much more it made me tired just looking at it,but kind of impressed also.
I finished the pages on sexuality, for now, and did my best to convince people that they cannot use metaphors when teaching people with intellectual disabilities. I don't think I will be successful with everyone, especially not the woman who posted an unhappy message on the Spirit Lake Forum a while back because in an earlier blog I used the word 'naked' as in, "Just because I telecommute doesn't mean that I work naked."
We will learn how it is received next week when Erich and Willie do workshops in Devils Lake and Belcourt. To date, all of our workshops have had at least some on-site instruction for each section. This will be the first one to have some completely computer-based instruction. There are nay-sayers who believe that computer-based learning won't work for Native Americans because they aren't computer literate enough, are too low-income to have computers at home, don't read well enough or a whole bunch of other reasons. I think all of those people are wrong and this WILL work. I am getting pretty excited to see how the results turn out. If I am wrong, I will be depressed.
Speaking of the Spirit Lake Forum, I feel guilty that I haven't posted there lately, but my time has been eaten up working on the website. Also, I must confess that my mind was not so much on my work on Friday because my third daughter, Ronda Rousey, was competing in the World Judo Championships in Brazil so it was kind of difficult to concentrate. She won a silver medal and we are all very proud of her.
With that over with and the website updated, I hope to get back on the forum next week.
It is 10:30 p.m. on Sunday night and I am still working on our latest workshop, Adulthood, Aging and Disability. It has been a day of looking at graphic photographs of ulcerated pressure sores and trying to pick the right one that gives an idea of the seriousness of the problem without making the reader throw up.
I added a Virtual Field Trip on Diabetes. How can you not like a website on Diabetes with an article that begins,
"Most people never think about their pancreas."
The Virtual Field Trips are fun to do. I wish I had more time for each one. The workshop I am finishing right now is our last one under the NIDRR grant. We have some hours budgeted for revising the website after this and that is one of the thousand things I want to do. Wonder how many I will finish before we run out of money?
Doing the section on Diabetes also made me realize how much work we have done on this website over the past two years. We had 135 references on our site to Diabetes alone, newsletter articles we wrote, web pages, fact sheets, guidebooks and so much more it made me tired just looking at it,but kind of impressed also.
I finished the pages on sexuality, for now, and did my best to convince people that they cannot use metaphors when teaching people with intellectual disabilities. I don't think I will be successful with everyone, especially not the woman who posted an unhappy message on the Spirit Lake Forum a while back because in an earlier blog I used the word 'naked' as in, "Just because I telecommute doesn't mean that I work naked."
We will learn how it is received next week when Erich and Willie do workshops in Devils Lake and Belcourt. To date, all of our workshops have had at least some on-site instruction for each section. This will be the first one to have some completely computer-based instruction. There are nay-sayers who believe that computer-based learning won't work for Native Americans because they aren't computer literate enough, are too low-income to have computers at home, don't read well enough or a whole bunch of other reasons. I think all of those people are wrong and this WILL work. I am getting pretty excited to see how the results turn out. If I am wrong, I will be depressed.
Speaking of the Spirit Lake Forum, I feel guilty that I haven't posted there lately, but my time has been eaten up working on the website. Also, I must confess that my mind was not so much on my work on Friday because my third daughter, Ronda Rousey, was competing in the World Judo Championships in Brazil so it was kind of difficult to concentrate. She won a silver medal and we are all very proud of her.
With that over with and the website updated, I hope to get back on the forum next week.
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