I'm off to the Florida Educational Technology Conference (FETC) for the rest of the week. I am looking forward to some great educational time as well as some "down" time. FETC Is one of the largest conferences in the US devoted to educational technology. There will be about 9,000 educators there. The program is designed so that educators will have the opportunity to learn how to integrate technologies across the curriculum (K-12). There will be about 500 vendors displaying the latest hardware, software and successful strategies on student technology use. There are five of us from my school attending.
I probably won't have time to post again until next week.
See you later ......
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Snow in Georgia
We had a beautiful blast of wintery weather this weekend. It snowed hard here for about five hours on Saturday - very unusual for the Atlanta area. The ground and air were warm so only about an inch of it actually stuck on the ground. The neighborhood kids had a lot of fun playing in it though. Now it is very cold. Anything that was wet yesterday is ice today. We should "thaw" out tomorrow sometime.
Monday, January 14, 2008
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Braves get a center fielder
What do you think about the new center fielder coming to the Braves? Former Oakland A's player Mark Kotsay will join the Braves this season. The Braves had to give up pitcher Joey Devine.
I think it looks like a good trade. I wasn't a fan of Joey Devine anyway. Joey was given multiple opportunities to make it with the Braves and he continued to disappoint fans. He leaves the Braves with 6.86 ERA.
Kotsay comes to the Braves after having had back surgery. He'll have to pass a physical and we just need to pray that he truely is healthy. He has the potential to hit about .280 compared to the .220 that Andrew Jones put up last year. He's not the center fielder Andrew is but defensively he should be more than adequate.
I'm excited about this aquisition and the prosepct of a great season.
What do you think?
I think it looks like a good trade. I wasn't a fan of Joey Devine anyway. Joey was given multiple opportunities to make it with the Braves and he continued to disappoint fans. He leaves the Braves with 6.86 ERA.
Kotsay comes to the Braves after having had back surgery. He'll have to pass a physical and we just need to pray that he truely is healthy. He has the potential to hit about .280 compared to the .220 that Andrew Jones put up last year. He's not the center fielder Andrew is but defensively he should be more than adequate.
I'm excited about this aquisition and the prosepct of a great season.
What do you think?
Monday, January 7, 2008
Good News/Bad News in My World of Sports
Being a female and a big Braves fan, I was extremely excited to hear that Javy Lopez was coming back to the Braves. He works hard. He's a good person. And he looks good in that uniform! All the reports say that he is in great shape after taking last year off and working out with a personal trainer. I'm rooting for him. He lives here in Atlanta and he's a family man who wants to be near his kids. He's been working with a catching coach for the last 2 months and he seems determined to make a comeback. What a great year this could be with Tom Glavine and Javy Lopez both returning. (Of course Javy still has to make the team in Spring Training.)
Enough on the Braves. Now for the bad news. My Steelers went down hard in that game Saturday night to the Jags. I thought we had a chance when we went up by 3 but the Jags made a good comeback. Somewhere we need to get some players who can take care of the football - 3 interceptions and a fumble - that's a little too much to swallow. Of course in Ben's defense, he had no running game and had to completely carry the offense himself. That's a lot to expect in a playoff game. The worst play of the night wasn't an interception or a fumble but was running a quarterback draw on 3rd-and-6 with Pittsburgh leading by one with just over three minutes to go -- that was the worst of the bunch.
If you think I've been a little hard on Ben then try on these statistics:
Ben was sacked a total of 46 times during the regular season, which is a dismal statistic in itself. However, in spite of that, he still managed to throw 32 touchdown passes, a team record, and he ended the season with a passer rating of 104.1. That rating was second in the league only to Tom Brady of the New England Patriots. With a quarterback like Ben Roethlisberger on your roster, there is hope for next year. Let's just pray that we can find some pass protection in the offseason.
Enough on the Braves. Now for the bad news. My Steelers went down hard in that game Saturday night to the Jags. I thought we had a chance when we went up by 3 but the Jags made a good comeback. Somewhere we need to get some players who can take care of the football - 3 interceptions and a fumble - that's a little too much to swallow. Of course in Ben's defense, he had no running game and had to completely carry the offense himself. That's a lot to expect in a playoff game. The worst play of the night wasn't an interception or a fumble but was running a quarterback draw on 3rd-and-6 with Pittsburgh leading by one with just over three minutes to go -- that was the worst of the bunch.
If you think I've been a little hard on Ben then try on these statistics:
Ben was sacked a total of 46 times during the regular season, which is a dismal statistic in itself. However, in spite of that, he still managed to throw 32 touchdown passes, a team record, and he ended the season with a passer rating of 104.1. That rating was second in the league only to Tom Brady of the New England Patriots. With a quarterback like Ben Roethlisberger on your roster, there is hope for next year. Let's just pray that we can find some pass protection in the offseason.
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