New things in a new year

We are well into January of 2011 and have new things to share. The Bulletin has a fresh new cover so watch for it's arrival in your mail. The Constitution and International Standing Rules, 2010, has been printed and is ready for purchase for the Society store and for your Kindle. The Bulletin will soon be available for the Kindle.

Headquarters is humming with activities for regional conferences and processing multiple applications. The information department has launched the beginnings for the regional Web sites. Watch for additions and changes on these sites. Planning of the next editions of the DKG News, the President's Page and the Bulletin, with editor, Judy Mertz, have already begun. Operations is keeping the building running efficiently and warm for Austin's sudden cold snap. This department processes scholarship and world fellowship applications so they are busy as bees. The executive department stays busy with travel arrangements for committees, planning for future conventions and training the new Educational Foundation assistant. Membership has been working tirelessly with the membership committee to provide new versions of orientation and a completely new re-orientation guide.The educational excellence committee is working fast and furious to provide new and fresh materials for projects and ways to support early career educators.

I've been experimenting with a flip camera and here's a short video of the Planning Meeting held in September.

On a personal note, I have a new red car, a Ford Edge. I am so excited and love the ride. It rides great and has lots of new technologies that I'm learning to use. I'm loving being in Austin and have settled well in my home. I'm looking forward to traveling to state organization conferences and regionals this summer.

I've been working on my dissertation for a year now and seem to be making some progress. I recently got chapter 3 back from my advisor with major rewrites to do. I completed that task today. I've sent it back and hope I'll soon be able to move to the next chapter (five chapters in all). I took the holidays off to rest but now I'm back at it. I spend lots of Saturday and Sunday afternoons writing or reading. The coursework was tough but I'm beginning to think this is harder.