December 2008 - Posts
In what has turned out to be some of the best comment-produicing material on this blog, I wrote about Asperger’s Syndrome early this month. Amidst the comments, G. Broaddus dropped this little gem: Fairness in the classroom is not always about giving
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This is a video of Dave Ramsey presenting his 7 Baby Steps to a live audience in Dallas. I also have a copy of his book The Total Money Makeover to give away to one of my readers from now through the end of January. Here’s how you enter: Leave a comment
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This is a video of Dave Ramsey presenting his 7 Baby Steps to a live audience in Dallas. I also have a copy of his book The Total Money Makeover to give away to one of my readers from now through the end of January. Here’s how you enter: Leave a comment
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I saw a great post on The Yellow Board today. The author asks a simple question: This is a little “out there”, but let’s say you could go back in time and and meet yourself when you were 18. You could tell yourself one thing, and zap, you were back to
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Mr. Teacher has one of the most entertaining blogs I’ve seen. In fact, I recommend his blog Learn Me Good to most of my friends who are looking for restroom reading material! I have recently written a guest post for him that will be appearing over there
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I put a forum up a while back and had lackluster response to it. This is not something that I will be very actively involved in, but I would like to try it again as a support system especially for the Student Teaching Project that I’m starting up this
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In continuing my review of the year, I am looking today at some of the articles that I wish were more popular. They may have received a handful of comments, or they may not have received any. The most common cause for their relative obscurity is that
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On Wednesday, we looked back at some of The Loneliest Articles of 2008, today, we’ll go to the other extreme and look at the busiest articles of 2008. These are the articles that generated the most comments. I’ve gone through the articles and found those
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In the Christmas break, I am looking back at this blog’s growth and development. I did this last year and it helped some of the newer readers to catch some of the things they missed out on. I know that since the year started with around 125 subscribers
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This has very little to do with education, but the concept is brilliant and bears sharing. Foodista is a cookbook with a wiki approach. Some of the cool features include: User-generated and user-edited recipes Easily link to recipes from your blog Click
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My Christmas concert came and went. No, I don’t have a “winter concert” or “holiday concert.” We don’t play winter music at the concert. We don’t play Easter or Halloween or Arbor Day music at the concert. We play Christmas music. So it’s a Christmas
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Found these on the Yellow Board. Enjoy. If you’re a band director (especially in Texas) and you don’t read the Yellow Board, you should. Q: If athletes get athletes foot, what do astronauts get? A: Missletoe! Q: What do you get when you cross a snowman
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I love competition. I thrive on competition. I love being able to get a group of kids to create a powerfully musical performance. These are tremendous things. But I have come to realize that this is not the most important thing we can do. If we lose sight
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Miss A writes about a student she has who is being tested for Asperger’s. She has had some difficulties with him lately. I responded: Just curious…how much do you know about Aspregers? It is similar to autism (both disabilities are different levels of
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If you are going to be student teaching in the spring semester of this school year, I want you to contact me. Before the end of this month. I am beginning work on a major project that will benefit you (and other students) tremendously. Either comment
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It has recently come to my attention that my blog is perceived as a marketing-type blog. There are perhaps a number of reasons for that. Whatever the case, I will be spending the remainder of December going through my archives and deleting any unnecessary
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I recently was reminded of some videos I seen before, but that was over a year and a half ago. These numbers are awe-inspiring. It is also humbling to realize how fast things are progressing in the world. It’s amazing to realize that the world I knew
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I love the visual effects employed here. Note the extensive use of whitespace. Greatness! Oh yeah, the message is incredible too. © SoYouWantToTeach.com - visit So You Want To Teach? for more great content.
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