HAVE A NICE TRIP!!! (II)

Have a nice stay in the States and do not worry about our boat because it does not have cracks and would not even spring any leaks in the meantime. All of us will keep not the boat but the CARGO moving! Good Luck! Godspeed!!!
Omar

HAVE A NICE TRIP!!!

Good luck, Charlie, on your trip! Hope you have a great time. We´ll be anxioulsy awaiting your return, knowing you´ll bring back news, more work for us all, new ideas and lots of energy! Meanwhile, we´ll keep the boat afloat.....Keep in touch!
Janine

Sense of pride

In less than a year I have experienced many unforgettable things related to my teaching practice. The most important of them has been the fact of being part of a challenging team that taught me how to improve professionally and personally as interacting with such incredible personalities has made me feel proud to be among great professionals. Now that my head is at ease, many good memories that I have lived since I started working with such exigent team came to my mind and the only thing that I can tell you for that is thank you. Thank you all for giving me the possibility of grabbing such good memories and for those that surely will come later. And thank you all for letting me grow, as I said, professionally and personally; and the endless support that makes me carry on and face adverse conditions. Now the only thing that I can feel is an absolute sense of pride. Thank you team for being part of YOU!
Omar

What it Takes to Work as a Team

Hi everybody and THANK YOU for all your honest support!!!
I want to share this video with you. I got it yesterday from a course on virtual tutoring I´m doing and I just thought of YOU, and especially the team I worked with for LolaM presentation.

I´m afraid it´s not English... neither Spanish, but Portuguese. I actually surfed on the whole YouTube site (or so I think) and this time, there's no English version... Maybe Omar can teach me how to write the English subtitles ;) It even looks like "suitable" for re-editing with our pics, don´t you think?

Anyway, enjoy the music, the overall message and always bear in mind that I feel THIS team is unique and we ought to take advantage of our virtues (which are so many) and help each other overcome our limitations (which just make us "Human").

Cecilia

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It's not easy to be us!!

Hey you all thanks for the support!! I agree with you Janine, once again I am so proud of being part of this team and so happy to have worked with this team of 4 masters, magicians, aces,prodigies... heroes searching 4 an impossible dream?there are not enough adjectives to describe you all. You are the best and they could see that we made a whole world of difference. Let me tell you this was so stressful, demanding and awesome at the same time that I can only say that the ones who were part of this can really understand the feeling of accomplishment and extreme happiness when the lights go out and we hear the crowd clapping and congratulating us for our good work. I will certainly look forward to embracing more of these feelings and hope next time more of you are aboard! hey team, mission accomplished!! let us enjoy the compliments cause we truly deserve them!!
PS: By the way, to whoever may concern: I'm still waiting for the spa boucher!!!!!
Alina ;)
June 7, 2008 8:20 PM

Lola Mora presentation

Once again........WE´RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER!!!!!!!!

I think I speak for all when I say that as a group, we push each other to strive ahead, to "risk" going out, where we normally, alone, would not. Thank you all for helping ME do this! Charlie, your support is felt, appreciated and always present. Thank you......and guys..... We DO rock!!!!!!

Way to Go, Team!

I've just walked across the street from Hotel del Jardín, still humming the Graduation Song that finished the SanPa English Dept gang's presentation of Technology with a Humanistic Touch that closed the day's session. I can't stress enough how impressed I was. Hey, Janine, Adela, Cecilia, Alina and Omar... YOU ROCK!

You smoothly presented tons of material showing the result of your work with student-produced texts, podcasts, blogs, movies, trailers, photo stories... etc with such poise and honesty that different ideas came to my mind, like...

Cecilia, it's amazing how you've gotten hooked on podcasting, explored it, adopted it, and, on the way, pushed the school to update their equipment with mikes. Looks like a nice new area for further exploration (and future presentations!).

Alina, while you showed the use of blogs, you also related your versatility and insight with a in-depth comparison/contrast between Lost and The Lord of the Flies. Oh, and the opening clip made by your students about 'Heroes' was truly compelling and thought-provoking.

Adela, your work with younger kids using tech shows this is not something for highschoolers only. You've shown an array of possibilities applied to sixth graders, which the audience appreciated rewarding your kids' movie clip with a heart-felt applause.

Janine, what am I doing teaching A2? You should take over right away! I was really moved by the podcast of Keats' poem. I liked your honesty showing amazing tech products AND that you're still learning! That must have made an impression on several in the audience.

Omar, master! You spoke calmly and presented your material almost business-like to a captive audience whose oohs and aahs showed how surprised they were. You showed your true passion for what you do, and also helped everyone see that it only takes a determined teacher to do so much and that it can happen in public schools as well, not just in a school where the students' socioeconomic background makes it easier to use tech.

This was the only presentation in the whole evening that inspired four or five rounds of applause while it was still going on. And that was because you showed not just a long list of activities but rather the result of the work reflected on your students' production.

Thank you for such a pristine display of professionalism. I feel so proud of working with you!