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Those born after 1980 are considered digital natives. The grew up with digital devices as normal part of their life. The older ones that come to this are called digital immigrants. I was born in 1953 so I am obviously a digital immigrant. I came upon a video of a seminar at Harvard....
I got my tb results back, and they were of course, negative. I also got "the call" about my lab results. The worst 2 minutes of waiting in my life...and they were fine. So, I'm on a roll. Next up is scheduling the dreaded pap and breast exam. ugh. It's not the exam part, I could lie there all day...
There are 70 guppies. I found 3 more the day after I moved the rest. I added 6 Glolight Tetras a week ago and they are doing fine too. Today, a school board member is donating a tarantula. I am beyond excitement. Best of all, TTFH, Princess, despises spiders. I would post updsates to the room...
There was about five miniutes left of class, and as usual the teacher lined the kids up and told them to play the letter game. Basicly it is where the first kid in the line says a healthy fruit starting with a, the next b, the next c etc. If a kid makes a mistake they sit down and the next person...
Men are born to succeed, not fail. - Henry David Thoreau, American author, poet and philosopher (1817-1862) Well, heck, that sounds simple enough. So why doesn't it work? Because to succeed, a person must have the tools to succeed and the attitude that the goal is possible. In other words, a person...
All 67 guppies are moved into their new tank. There are 11 babies in the nursery that you can see at the top left of the tank. I swear the yellow fantail was giving birth to them as I was moving everyone. I don't remember seeing those babies when I first looked into their old tank this morning...
[ASSIGNED: FIRST DAYS OF SECOND YEAR] Here I am again. Standing in front of a roomful of strangers. I'm in a new school where I once again have to find where things are, who knows what, who does what, and what matters. My schedule is a 4x4 block this year so I see every student every day in the...
I'm still putting stuff away. Of course it would have helped had I not, each year for the past 4, gotten tired of filing as school let out and just left the last several inches of stuff to file in a box under the front desk........ so now I have taken it upon myself to weed that all out and file the...
After 6 days, including yesterday with 3 kids doing much of the grunt work, here is my new classroom/physics lab: And my desk, now in the back corner so that when kids aren't there I can work in privacy from the hall traffic and not have to look directly across the hall at Princess, TTFH: Getting it...
Out of nothing at all. (cut to Meatloaf tune playing in the background) The TFH had thrown me lemons, and so I will promptly create margaritas. Photos to follow.
Everytime I hear this song, just for a split second, I wonder at the audacity of a band that would name itself Katrina and the Waves. In other news, I went to school today and worked more on my classroom. It's finally looking like a real live classroom! I'm so psyched for school. I'm nervous, but...
I sucked up and did it. When I sought teacher certification in Washington, the PTB surveyed my Ohio professional certificate for any science and any math in grades 7-12, my Indiana cert for the same things, noted my National Board certificate, and promptly awarded me Washington's general science...
So, I get to write what I like in this. I shall tell you of my marvelous time at By High. Listen my children, and you shall hear. I did not take any pictures, as my camera had no batteries, but I shall rectify that tomorrow. I walked into my classroom, to which the janitor, Mr. Woods, was kind...
Garage sale finds: 1. Grocery sack full of yarn, not more than 2 skeins the same color. Some will be used at school and my mom scabbed some. $4. 2. 33 Star Wars pencils and one random Happy Halloween pencil, $0.50 3. One 8'ft long inflatable shark, $3: He's not as stripey as he looks. The black...
shhhh... if my teacher see me... she will confiscate my beloved camera... +++CHIIRA+++
I was really looking forward to reading The Reluctant Disciplinarian because I am worried about my ability to manage my classroom. It started out with promise, but after a while I began to get the feeling that the author was telling me less about how to manage a classroom than about how to play a...
After class, my roommate and I showed each other different things we like on youtube. From Korean B-Boy Marionette to EE Seung Gi, I found myself wondering the streets of Suwon with friends. What started with two grew to 12. Things Korea will remember me by: Black and white hat left on an airplane....
My Cooperating Teacher told me about this and I thought it was great. It is about Classroom Management: In the same way that we do research in the classroom to see what kinds of management strategies work with our students, our students do research to see what kinds of behaviors are acceptable to...
