Fun and interesting lessons

CONGRATULATIONS, Anneke, that's a comment you certainly want to keep for a long time.  Great that you have such an early indication that time well spent pays off richly.  We can't go at that pace every day of every month and year, but we can aspire to doing it almost every day, and students definitely appreciate it.  I expect it's your planning AND your personal style of interacting with the students that earned you that wonderful complement!
Yours,
Tom
http://aweekinsantiago.blogspot.com

An Encouraging Day

Whew - what a busy week! One of my students said the kindest thing today though: "You really put a lot of time into your lessons to make them fun and interesting, don't you?" After spending nearly every waking hour lesson planning, teaching, or after-school activities - getting to bed after midnight most nights and waking up for the long commute at 5:30am every day - it was so encouraging to hear that one of my students genuinely appreciated the work I put into his class. It made the exhaustion of this friday night worth it.

As for the website - it has been going alright. I've been surprised that the students aren't actually as computer literate as I expected - they've had some simple technical issues with using a website that surprised me. I've brought my laptop into class to show them how it works, and that seems to be helping. Of course you can send the link to the website to others - the interesting links might be particularly useful for lesson planning. It's always hard to find that perfect video. The pictures of the week are all just photos from my labs, but some of the pictures inside the day-by-day note are just random pics floating around on the net.