Click here if you want to look at my digital teaching portfolio. It is supposed to represent my teaching from the last year. While I think it’s ok, I don’t think it adequately reflects how much I care about helping my students learn. Teaching is serious business and there is a lot riding on what… Read more »
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Me and Becky
Here we are. I think the tie looked better on her than it did me :)
Floating Along
So, for all my readers (both of you), I guess I should post a little note to let you know I’m not dead. I’ve just been really busy. Let’s see…I have bought a place in Jackson and I’ve been trying to get moved in. I’ll eventually post some pics, but not right now. I just… Read more »
Anti-virus software: Universal Protection for your PC
Would your doctor handle your blood without donning a pair of latex gloves? Would your dentist peek into your mouth without a mask? The answer to both of these questions is a resounding “no.” Your competent healthcare professionals wear their universal precaution because there are lots of little nasties within all of us that they… Read more »
Definition of OS Poisoning
OS Poisoning occurs when an operating system slows down after many programs have been installed and uninstalled.
Red Screen of Death
Anybody who has used any version of Windows in the last 10 years has seen the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). I can’t really believe it, but the next version of Windows (codenamed Longhorn) has a Red Screen of Death! All I can say is “Wow…”
A Matter of Public Record
The wildest thing: You can check any KY Teacher’s credentials online at the Kentucky Educational Professional Standards Board site. A link to my credentials can be found here. Somehow or other, looking up former teachers is very addictive. Everyone I have ever shown this to spends at least five minutes looking up someone, either good… Read more »
Hideous Link
I was reading The Talent Myth, an article by the current business philosophy guru Malcom Gladwell when I noticed a link on the bottom of his site to the web design firm Cavil.com. Apparently, Cavil’s croanies saw computer movies like Hackers and actually decided the artsy and useless sites that always show up in said… Read more »
Quietness
There’s a quietness in my soul that I haven’t felt since December. Many things are coming to an end very soon: the first year MAT cycle, the students’ school year, and my curriculum class. My favorite part of any task has always been when it’s all said and done and I have achieved closure. The… Read more »
One Down, Two to Go
I turned in my massive MAT portfolio on Saturday (somewhere in the neighborhood of 380-400 pagses). It represents an entire year’s worth of teaching, reflecting, teaching, and re-teaching…It feels so good to have that out of the way. Now, all I gotta do is survive one more observation and finish my curriculum framework. This time… Read more »