3:00 Wake up and hit snooze button
3:15 Get up, review class lesson plans, speak with Mr. Siegel (our principal)
3:45 Get ready to teach first period
4:00 Troubleshoot tech and teach class in Bronx, New York from Fairbanks, Alaska
5:15 Do some long-distance planning with colleagues at school
6:10 Do last night’s homework
7:30 Shower and get ready
7:55 Run down to grab breakfast
8:00 Class: Learn how to create and keep a journal in the field…this will be complicated for the folks in Antarctica because they may have to speak their journal over satellite phone
10:00 Break, eat snack food
10:05 It’s snowing!
Ms. Rodgers and Ms. Wotkyns chillin' out in the snow. Ms. Wotkyns is going to travel to Antarctica on the Oden Ice Breaker in November. She teaches third and fourth grades in Los Angeles.
10:10 Class: Learn how to resize photos and use them on website
12:00 LUNCH! Mexican food. It is Cinco de Mayo after all.
12:30 Field Trip to Apocalypse…clothing designed for when it’s 80 below…and a price tag to go with it.
13:00 Class: How to conduct a webinar…What?! Wait a minute! You mean that I have to host live interactive events with people from all over the world?! You’re joking, right?
Nobody told me about this!
15:30 Museum of the North…the things you’ll find hidden in the basement…Night at the Museum doesn’t compare
18:30 5K race downtown…get lost, miss race
19:15 Hungry…FOOD…Thai House…again…Pad Thai…again…no more Pad Thai
21:30 Go to “hotel, sweet, warm hotel and escape snow.” Start homework.
24:00 Bed?
Hmmm...Why do you think I wrote the time using the twenty-four hour clock instead of the twelve hour clock?