Mexico, thanks for getting my back
Well, it looks like we're not going to get hit by the full force of the hurricane, but there is still a good chance that the RGV could get some severe flooding. Apparently Dean is the third largest hurricane in all of the Atlantic, and Mexico is looking at 20 inches of rain where the 'Dean hits. That SUCKS... As you can tell from the picture, it looks like we're still going to get a good deal of the northern arm of the hurricane, so we'll likely see a good amount of rain. I'm already taking precautions and parking my car on the street where the water drains considerably quicker than in the area behind my apartment. True, I'm not under a covered area, but at least my car won't have to drive through 8 inches of rain in order to get out of my subdivision.

We went over the New Jersey method today in training (which amounts to lots of visuals and hands on work). I couldn't help thinking though, that my plan to incorporate a good deal of multimedia in the classroom is essentially the New Jersey method on crack. The main idea of the NJM is that students will learn more if they are actively engaged. Unfortunately, some students are turned off by the potentially lower-age-level creative projects. With video, stop-motion animation, storyboarding, and the like, I'm fairly certain that my students will find themselves challenged enough to be interested, involved, and therefore learning. We'll see.