It was the best of conversations, it was the worst of conversations, but in the end, it was an educational conversation for my cousins and I. Okay, enough with the Dickens reference. During the summer I take a little motorcycle trip. Okay, not so little. I do around 2500 miles from Nevada to Montana and [...]
I admit it, I read the funny pages first thing on Sunday morning. Okay, maybe I should first admit that I have a daily subscription to the newspaper and read it cover to cover every day. But, on Sundays, I read the comics first. Yesterday’s Doonesbury was an instant classic in my mind, worthy of [...]
I was having a conversation the other day with a recent graduate of my high school. This person was shocked at how bad education is, because they are in college and doing well. All the things they hear in the media was creating a huge cloud over their head because they had a great high [...]
What a difference a year makes. Or not. No, it did make a difference. A year ago, I was in the middle of my 3rd year of teaching. Do you remember your third year? If it sucked, because you felt like an utter failure at every single lesson, every single exam, and everything else you [...]
I attended the Southern NV Math and Science Conference over the weekend. I presented part of the Advanced Algebra Applications course, but more on that in another post. I also attended a session given by one of the major textbook publishers on 21st Century learning with their products. I was told by my boss to [...]
I like my school district, I really do. I think they try to focus on the learning of kids more than other districts (granted, I haven’t taught in other districts but my district doesn’t do some silly things I have heard from other teachers). But, and this is giant, big but, they use some really [...]
I am in cadre that was given MacBook Pros to do podcasting and vodcasting this Summer and upcoming school year. Not too shabby, I downloaded Handbrake already in order to convert video from one format into another. This was made essential because my Flip video camera only records in .AVI format, something the mac hates. [...]