Twitter – Teaching The Outsiders (and more)

SE Hinton, The Outsiders, Twitter

I Just Remembered the Name of This Blog (Also: Vegas)

mrC

I have a real excuse this time for the latest posting drought. I took myself to Vegas for four days for my birthday. Yup, just me. All by my own bad self. I know it sounds sort of weird, but I love Vegas. I got married in Vegas. On Halloween. Yes, it was at one […]

8th grade, Twitter, Valentine's Day

The Cupcakes of Spurned Love Are For Sale

mrC

(Morning Update: I just remembered that after the boy was down to the last couple, he put them out for bid. He got 5 dollah for the last one.) Looks like I am going to have to pad this one out a bit, since the title pretty much sums up the post. The cupcakes were […]

Seventh Grade Behavior, Twitter

Crickets (Tweetervision)

mrC

On one of the pinball forums I frequent, whenever somebody starts a thread that nobody responds to in a certain length of time (usually about a day), the usual thing is to see the original poster post a “bump.” (I may be telling a lot of you something you already know–I am a relative noob […]

Teaching, Twitter

Day One, Year Nineteen: A Twitter Simulation

mrC

It never gets old; the first day of school. This is my 21st year of teaching–19 at my present school–and still I didn’t get more than four or five hours sleep last night. And it’s not like I don’t know what I’m going to do or anything. This morning I was talking to another English […]

Random Featured Post, Stories of Seventh Grade, Teaching, Twitter

Twits

mrC

I just read a webnews headline that read: “Twitter is the New CNN.” Where are we going, and why are we in this handbasket? If Mr. Coward were to “tweet” his way through a typical day period (which is about as likely as, oh let’s see, Hell freezing over is too cliche, how about…Bill Gates going […]

Exercise, Herb Caen, Teaching, testing, Twitter

Dot Dot Dot (Also: 4.7 miles!)

mrC

Back in the day, the San Francisco Chronicle had a columnist named Herb Caen. With the exception of eight years or so in the 50’s when he jumped ship for the Examiner, he wrote a daily column for the Chronicle from the 30’s until he died in 1997. He’s the one that invented the word […]