Gearing Up For a New Term

gariet cowin posted on January 8, 2008 - 4:25pm 1 comment

This week at OLLIE, we are all getting ready for a new school term. That means new classes, new students, and new projects. All I can say about that is "hooray!". The Fall term was really hard on me. I just couldn't seem to connect with any of the students that I was working with, and sometimes the kids were so rude that I wanted to walk out on the job.
Thankfully, I managed to get a little rest over Winter Break, and I'm just about fully recharged and ready to go back into the classrooms.

Since the last time I posted here, I've managed to get a (drupal) website up and running for OLLIE as well. It's not much to look at, but it does the job. Check it out here. I have a really bad design and color sense, so if anybody has any design ideas for the site, I'm all ears.

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Jack Waugh commented on January 23, 2008 - 3:36pm

The colors look fine to me. I noticed that in some cases, the search for movies doesn't turn up any hits, when it should.

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gariet cowin posted on February 26, 2008 - 2:58pm no comments

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Gearing Up For a New Term

gariet cowin posted on January 8, 2008 - 4:25pm 1 comment

This week at OLLIE, we are all getting ready for a new school term. That means new classes, new students, and new projects. All I can say about that is "hooray!". The Fall term was really hard on me. I just couldn't seem to connect with any of the students that I was working with, and sometimes the kids were so rude that I wanted to walk out on the job. …read more

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