Online courses

It may be that I have had far too much fun lately.  I finally decided to spend the time today doing my professional development as a journalism teacher.  I need to do three days of training as one of the requirements for a stipend next summer.  I'm totally doing it for the money...

While I was pinned under my laptop, I decided to knock out the compliance videos that we are required to watch every year.  I suppose the school district has probably faced its fair share of lawsuits over some issues over time, and now, they have teachers do online training every year so they can minimize the extent to which they are responsible for any miserable failures to comply with regulations, laws and policies.

Well, color me trained.  I know all about suicide prevention, professional ethics, sexual harassment, 504 accommodations, FERPA, copyright law, bullying prevention, blood borne pathogens and proper procedures to follow if I become aware of any sexual abuse or maltreatment of children.  It's safe to assume that this afternoon wasn't one of the top ten joyful occasions of the summer, but that part is done, and I am about a third of the way through the journalism classes.  Tabbed browsing is a heck of a thing, isn't it?  Several courses had minimum time requirements.  They didn't have any constraints on what else I could be doing concurrently.

Cas goes back to work tomorrow, but I get to hold out until this Monday.  He called this evening, but we're not getting together tonight.  He needs to get back into the early to bed, early to rise school year habit that we all must have.  I should probably do the same, but I may be up a little later just taking online journalism classes.  For the money, of course...