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Up in the air again!


The last time I posted, I was working at the Sheriff’s office and not teaching school.  Because I was not teaching, I made my Action Report at Brazosport College. Now, there have been some big changes in my work.  I am teaching graphic design, animation, digital interactive media, web technologies, advanced animation, and advanced graphic design at the high school. I took off working on my Lamar master program for six months so I could focus on the new job, and learn all the new Adobe software programs: Flash, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Dreamweaver.  Now that I am back, I am trying to work out how to continue working on my Action Research and Internship plan. I am not sure how to continue from here. It would be so much more useful to me to complete my Internship and Action Research at my new school, but I do not know if it would be better to just continue completing my work at Brazosport. These last five weeks I have not worked on either project. I have had my hands full just completing my assignments and continuing working on learning the software I need to teach everyday. My plan is to review my Action Research and evaluate how much I have actually completed. If a large portion is complete, I will finish it off at Brazosport. My thought is the Internship plan is almost complete and I will work to complete it at Brazosport. The Action Research is not nearly complete, and I may just restart it at Angleton High School, if that is acceptable to everyone.

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