Band Camp is next week!

The NMS Summer Band Extravaganza will run Monday, July 26-Friday, July 30 in the NMS band room from 8:00am-12:00pm. It will be a LOT of fun! Mr. Nowickas and I have picked some great music and we're really looking forward to seeing a lot of our students next week! The camp experience will conclude on Friday night in the NMS band room with a concert to showcase all we learned during the week. It's going to be a great time!

Too Much!

I have a headache. I'm not sure if it's because of the cold that's been coming and going and coming and going, or if it's because there is just SO MUCH information that I've been immersing myself in that I'm drowning in it! I've found some very cool forums and tools and ideas, and it's very cool to see a lot of the same people being threaded together in the different wikis and networks I've been researching. But it seems that these people I'm reading about and listening to are SO involved that I feel like I don't know where to start. So many ideas are constantly swimming around in my head that I can't control or organize them all...

Getting My Blog On

One of my goals for next school year is to set-up a platform that connects the students from both of my schools and informs their parents of what I do. Maybe if the students are more actively involved with me, the band program and their band friends during the week, they will feel more invested in the program and stick with it longer. Lofty goal, I think. But I'm going to try...