29 Days

Jaime has come down with the Asian flu/first year of teaching bug and has been sick for a few days. Jordan has finally surfaced and answered my SMS so all are present and accounted for.

I have been indulging in too much beer and wings and have to either start working harder at the gym or go on a diet. Coach Brown would be proud of me, giving into the dark side of the wings :-)

Not much else to say ... today is like every other day in Malaysia, hot and sticky. At work I am writing up my report on the CPU Blended Learning Pilot which was semi successful and supported the research in it's findings. Students do a little bit better or the same academically but prefer the freedom to work any place, anywhere, anytime.

Change is never easy and we are having trouble getting the other 50% of the teachers onboard and willing to take the change. Sometimes the younger teachers are the worst because they just want to teach the way they were taught and it is very fresh in their minds. Go figure. Oh well, you don't find many risk takers in education but you would think you would find more of them from the select few that would consider teaching on the other side of the planet.

TTYL,

Jim