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Keeping on my last week trend of favorite places, SunRay Cinema absolutely qualifies. I lived in Jax before I came to school in Tallahassee and I can't tell you just how much I missed this movie theater. Its a small two screen venue located in the 5-points neighborhood. They show popular and indie films and have also has special events surrounding TV shows like The Walking Dead and American Horror Story where they have free showings, but you pay $9.99 in concessions. Easy to do when they make pizzas and sandwiches and have homemade Twinkies and Beer Milkshakes (sounds gross until you think about a chocolate milk stout as the beer!)  In response to Covid they have made it so that you can rent out a theater for private showings for your family and closest friends (I think up to 16 people...whatever the regulations are.) and they sterilize everything after. They have also created a new Drive-In option so people can find some outlet to being pent up in their homes. This theater is acti

So on this last week of Blogging, I wanted to talk about some places that are my absolute favorite. The first is the local brewery here in Lake City, FL. It just celebrated its 3rd anniversary and it is just what this small town has needed.  Lake City is located at the crossing of I-75 and I-10 and is called the Florida Gateway. It has a community college, a mall, a super Walmart, a handful of restaurants and that's about it. Now it has a brewery and not only do they brew beer they brew really GOOD beer. I'm proud of them as a Lake City native and I can't recommend them more! In fact, I know that some of their beers are available in Tallahassee so when you are getting your growler filled look for Halpatter on tap and check them out! Here is there website: https://halpatterbrewing.com/ Here is an article that does a better job of talking about their origins than I could: https://www.teamcone.net/the-brewers-story-halpatter-brewing-company/

Hockey season is starting up and I've decided that this is the year I start following it. My friends are from the Pittsburgh area I have watched a few Penguins games while at their house. So how do I go about choosing a team?  In Florida there are two NHL teams: The Florida Panthers and the Tampa Bay Lightning The Lightning are a really good team and Tampa is a bit easier to get to if I were going to go to see a game. However, it feels like jumping on the bandwagon to choose a team just because they've been winning.  I also really like the Panthers logo and jerseys.... This is a conundrum much like choosing a Premier League team to follow. I was going to support Tottenham, but with Pulisic playing for Chelsea that kind of changed my mind.   

A long time ago, I used to work at the library of the local community college. It was a really cool job and I really enjoyed working there. The library was a popular hub and we regularly had events. The most popular one was the game night we would trow every semester. We'd have food and drinks and gaming stations set up all over the library. We had extra TV's that we would set up so people could bring in their own gaming consoles and it was just a really cool event. The clubs at the school were very active too. One club, the anime club, did this really cool thing. It got together and brought in all of their manga and graphic novels and donated them to the library, creating our highest circulating collection. It was a really cool thing to see. Anyway, ALL OF THAT to say I started to read graphic novels from the collection and got really in to them. One series that I am currently reading is the Ta-Nehisi Coates written Captain America series. Here is the blurb from Amazon: Acclai

So one of my interest have always been in cooking. Something I've been trying to learn to do is to make a sourdough starter. For some reason, I just can't manage to make one. The results have been horrific and the things of nightmare. I'm not planning on stopping, however I have found away around it.  It's called The No Knead Method and the baker who came up with it is named Jim Lahey. So when it came time to work on my produsage assignment for this class I decided I would create a resource where I could gather and present my resources on bread making. Hopefully others will find it interesting and helpful and they will add their own resources and attempts at making bread. If you are interested feel free to join the community here: http://www.pearltrees.com/sab07f/bread-baking-with-bunn/id33065706 For now enjoy this post about my attempt! So, as I mentioned I followed the No Knead Method. I started by gathering the ingredients. I have certain selected brands on the Pearl

This week we looked at the concept of the digital citizen and were asked that in our roles as educators/instructional designers, if we viewed it as our collective responsibility to promote and develop our students as digital citizens and if we did believe that it was our responsibility, how should we go about it.  I have this some thought and looked t engage my classmates with this and felt that I do believe that it is part of our role as educators to include awareness of proper behaviors to be a good digital citizen in what we do. I think that this responsibility begins at home and that it is primarily the parents who should be distilling the proper character of citizenship IRL or in the digital space. However, I think that this continues on at school and that as educators it is our role to supplement these behaviors and to teach our students how to act professionally, how to communicate clearly, and be respectful in settings with diverse viewpoints. I think we do this in practice w