Monday, February 26, 2007
I ran an upgrade to Wordpress 2.1.1 from 2.0 – a geeky announcement that shouldn’t mean anything to the average person – except that when I went to look at it, the page didn’t load properly in the browser. At least the site still worked! After abandoning the hacked theme that I was using, I [...]
Saturday, February 24, 2007
The teacher/union bashing from Steve Jobs is just one of many recent examples of critical statements about teachers as a class of people. I’ve long – since the beginning of my teaching career – been acutely aware of my inadequacy in meeting the needs of all my students. That some kids get left behind is [...]
Friday, February 23, 2007
Christian Long’s Stop Blogging Because You’re an Educator caught my eye the other day
STOP BLOGGING BECAUSE YOU’RE A TEACHER (or educator, administrator…)! …Because in a few minutes, days, weeks, months, years, it won’t matter. The pool will be saturated with edu-bloggers. Not just a few hundred. But a few million. [...]
Friday, February 23, 2007
Even though days in the Far North are longer now, with longer sunny afternoons, we’ve had a cold snap this week, and nighttime lows have dropped to the -40s. That’s not a wind chill value. It’s dead calm weather, bright and sunny, and bitter cold. Most places, that kind of cold would be newsworthy. Here, [...]
Thursday, February 15, 2007
“Jesus, I must be crazy to be in a loony-bin like this.” Randle Patrick McMurphy
An article from Science (Jan. 1973), On Being Sane in Unsane Places, (also at Susan Ohanian.org) described an experiment in which eight sane people volunteered to be secretly admitted to psychiatric hospitals to find out if hospital staff could distinguish them [...]
Marco Polo left a comment, saying:
…if the arguments against it [NCLB] are good, then surely they should be made clearly. What is so fascinating and disappointing, is that the two “camps” seem to find no common ground, not to be able to speak the same language. I think it is important that they communicate.
Marco is [...]
wikipedia.org Alaskan Husky
I’m not leader material. I don’t want to motivate or change people. I don’t try to persuade anyone to think differently. I’m a worker, an inventor and a problem solver. So how do I answer Kimberly Mortiz, who tags me with this question: “What are seven qualities we don’t know about you that [...]
Every blogger should have a code of conduct. Four laws of the land from Alaska’s gold rush era are the bedrock principles of my blogger’s manifesto.
Self preservation: Work, play, eat, sleep, study, love.
Common sense: Passion is beautiful. Restraint is commendable.
Fair play: How would you like it?
Good manners: Apologize when shit happens. Link back [...]
Teacher bloggers who haven’t spent half (the waking half) of their lives on the internet might not realize that there are mean people out there who can leave foul comments on their blogs and write unkind things about them elsewhere. Elementary teachers, though they spend vast amounts of their day teaching children to be nice [...]
