About 2 years ago I decided to try running. I was never any good, but I enjoyed the time to myself and the feeling of accomplishment when I finished my first (and only) 10km race. Running taught me a lot about perseverance.
I'm having to apply those same lessons to this website. But before I get into a progress report, let me remind you of what I'm doing.
Next year I will be returning to the classroom after 3 years of content development.Going back is both exciting and scary. To help me cope with these emotions, I've created a website which collates resources specific to my teaching plan for the year. At this stage, I'm focusing on instructional resources but I hope to do more interesting things in the future.
Progress has been slower than I anticipated. It took a while to figure out how to put equations on the site and to be honest, I also got a little bored. (In fact, I'm writing this post now to try avoid doing more on the website.)
Here is the progress report written as a word problem:
When Fabumaths.co.za is completed, it will have 53 pages. Helen has completed 6 of the pages and another 33 other pages are 20% complete. It has taken Helen 56 hours to do this much work. If she continues at this rate, how many hours will it take her to complete the website? And if she works on it for 5 hours a day, when will she finish it?
I have completed the content pages for Grade 10 Term 1 and have moved on to the content pages for Grade 11 Term 1. Before I go away for Christmas, I'd like to be complete with this and Grade 12 Term 1.
If you would like to see a draft copy of the website, look here. If you have comments or suggestions for the website, please post them here. (Don't judge me too harshly though, it's very much a work in progress.)
Running taught me that sometimes the action seems boring and insignificant, liking putting one foot ahead of the other, but the outcome is worth the boredom. So with that, I shall go back to working on the site.
Much love.
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