Technology – Teaching The Outsiders (and more)

Seventh Grade Behavior, Teaching, Technology

I Can’t Get the Box Open!

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I don’t know how familiar how many of you are with Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative, where his goal is to ” provide each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop.” He’s talking about places like villages in Ethiopia and Sudan and the like. OLPC started giving away laptops in 2007, and I’ll let […]

Technology, Video

Video Class Update

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The drama lady is going to kill me. My fledgling video class has taken over the drama room, and I have my sights set on acquiring more classroom real estate from the music department. Soon I will control more classroom space than three or four “regular” teachers. Quick refresher goes here. In a comic book, […]

Grading papers, Me, Teaching, Technology

What I’m Doing Instead of Blogging

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Mental Floss Question from last week: The Pope has one but doesn’t use it. Your dad has one, and your mom uses it. Nuns do not need one. Arnold Schwarzenegger has a big one, and Michael J. Fox’s is quite small. What is it? (An oldie, but a goody. Answer at the end.) As you may or […]

Supplementary Materials, Technology

Soundz!

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In the previous post, I touted the beauty of The Timer and havoc one might wreak with it upon the psyches of sensitive seventh graders. This is just a quick update to that. The link at the end of this post will take you to a directory with my stash of timer sounds. You can […]

Seventh Grade Behavior, Supplementary Materials, Technology

The Timer Redux

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This one isn’t exactly a rerun per se…let’s call it more of a rewrite… This year’s crew has been a bit more, shall we say, trying, than any in recent memory. They’re nice enough for seventh graders and all, but they are really frying my bacon this year. So I have to get my kicks […]

CPS, Technology

Near Catastrophe

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Today I came much closer to a catastrophic tech failure than I’m used to. And it happened live in class. Now, as my loyal readers may have guessed, I don’t have many tech failures, beyond finicky overhead bulbs and such. (In fact, I get to play the Fonz quite a bit with my overhead. It must have […]