Archive for the ‘blog’ Category

“My students have my Mobile number”

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

It is not often that I sit down and write and words and thoughts just flow out, but that happened today. I have been taking part in a discussion happening over on Dan Meyer’s blog regarding students having a teachers mobile number.
A person left a comment stating in this discussion that said, “Yet another reason [...]

I always wanted that

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Every time that I visit a nice website I am always impressed to see a custom image appear by the web address. I have always wanted to do this to my page but never understood how.
After a quick google search, I found out that you need to have an image converted to a favicon and [...]

Whoops

Monday, May 19th, 2008

Well mistakes do happen, and they happened to us on our first run. Not only did a bolt come off our steering while it was moving, but we also traced the source of our inconsistent engine performance: frayed wiring. We ran to Menards and got supplies to rewire the car, so that should not be [...]

Supermileage - Good to go

Monday, May 19th, 2008

Well we made it down here and passed technical inspection (after 3 tries) and now we are minutes from our first run. Weather could be better, but we can not ask for everything. I will post results from our runs as soon as I get them. Wish us luck!

No Child Left Behind - The Football Version

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

I received this as an email and I thought it was good enough to post on my blog. In my opinion, it really puts NCLB in perspective.
NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND - The Football Version
1. All teams must make the state playoffs and all MUST win the championship. If a team does not win the championship, [...]

If a tree falls . . .

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

Interesting question, what do you think?

Why Blog?

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

Why do I make my students to blog? Why should you blog?
Here is why:

It is easy! (Up and running in less that 10 minutes)
It is fun and informative. (Publish your thoughts and see what other people think)
It is safe. (You decide what content is published. You can also decided who can comment on your posts [...]