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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Brave New World Order
Sunday, February 10th, 2008There is so much spin on how innovative and transcending the new world is. How much is going to change for nearly everyone. I’m not so sure. For one, I’m not so sure how new any of this is… it seems to be that new technologies are layered onto universal ideas […]
midwife syndrome
Saturday, January 19th, 2008Quick! a child wants something. Stop everything and help. Hurry! A parent feels the need to think about their child out loud. Clear your schedule.
I’m about halfway through my profession, and I realize (somewhat suddenly) that the choice to be a giver is NOT the […]
Accidental Kismet
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008I’m reading Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi right now. In the section I am reading, Csikszentmihalyi describes a young man by the name of Sam who has had an accidental experience that will define the rest, or at least a large portion, of his life. Up until the moment described, Sam has […]
bitches need advocates
Saturday, December 8th, 2007Shocked you with that title didn’t I? Dogs.. I’m talking about dogs.
I’ve been looking into getting an australian labradoodle (ASD), primarily for temperament, but also for the beauty of the animal. During my search, I have discovered that the requirements of the ASD breeder are significantly different than pure breed breeders, and […]
Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
Resize Me
A new imaging resizing technology about to hit the streets. Although it has it’s limitations, it allows for some interesting effects. I hope to see it in the next version of photoshop. Got this from adesblog, a good source of info for up and coming tools in web technology. But here’s the youtube video
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007documentary blue
Friday, August 3rd, 2007I would like to have my students write, film and edit video documentaries this year. Last year, I didn’t get it done, in part because NCLB is such a prominent feature in our district that the time gets too chopped up. But, mostly, I didn’t do it out of rational fear…. not the […]
Comment Goodness
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007It’s good to get comments. I’ll have to remind my students that commenting on each other’s blogs (in a respectful manner, of course) really stimulates the writer to think and write again. So…thank you to Gayle Burnett (whose comment got lost when I inadvertently deleted the blog entry she commented on), Dean […]