Category: Video
Open Mouth Returns (Part One), but the Revolution Will NOT Be Televised
Alas, MCTV is now defunct. Let’s just say this: Issues were raised. My free trial with uStream was about to run out. See #1. Watch me go all passive voice here for a bit. It was pointed out that certain objections might be raised, and that there were some parents (even those who might not have […]
Continue Reading...I Guess We’ll See How This Goes
My regular(s) have read about my 120 Seconds book reports. If you are not a (the) regular, you can see an example here. This year’s batch, while competent and mostly well prepared, didn’t really “bust a move” for me. They were all pretty conventional. I was hoping for a few more of them to go […]
Continue Reading...Off Topic Questions Part I
Way back in the day, I did my last round of student teaching at one of the two high schools in our district. This was when I still thought I wanted to teach high school (silly me), and my cooperating teacher (actually they were called master teachers back then) and I didn’t really see eye […]
Continue Reading...One Got Fat?
Six. Thanks for all the groovy comments lately… Today was the last day before winter break. For once I’m not going into vacation with a pile of stuff (the autocorrect got rid of the s I usually put in that word… and it didn’t know from the word autocorrect…ok now it does) to grade, because […]
Continue Reading...“What about the butterflies?”
On the second day of Christmas… I had been crabby for the first half of the week for many and various reasons: a “mama bear,” a moron or two, a faculty meeting, the brrrnesss of the weather lately–30 degrees on my bike to school every day this week…really? Really? I thought this was California… But […]
Continue Reading...Still Standing…
Been a while, I know… So I’m going all dot dot dot on you. It’s been almost a month–since September 14 to be exact–that the Standing Girl first decided to stand for the whole period. Not all periods. Just mine. And she’s still standing. Just for me. She still won’t say why… She does sit […]
Continue Reading...First Videos
The first couple of PSA’s from my first quarter video production elective class are ready for prime-time. Amazing what can arise from amid the chaos of late-arriving equipment, unworking computers and crashing software. (Actually, the past week has been really good; we might be getting the hang of this.) PSA Videos.
Continue Reading...Video Class Update
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, […]
Continue Reading...Uh Oh. (Also Cartoons.)
Woo Hoo! The first week is in the books. You gotta love those three day weeks. First week shtuff: I’m a bit worried. I herded them into the computer lab for the STAR reading test today. (Aside: It’s from the same people who make Accelerated Reader. We still have the old version, not the web-based […]
Continue Reading...Maybe I could get used to this. Maybe.
I voted against the two-week spring break schedule. The union put it to a vote last year, and the two-week break won out 51-49%. I liked starting later in the fall, and spring around these parts is pretty windy, while fall is postcard weather. And it puts a big Christmas-like hole in the middle of […]
Continue Reading...Sheep
Another first day of school. It’s actually kind of fun (except for the getting up @ 5 am part). The seventh graders are all in their seats well before the passing period is over, and they’re still so eager, and not…well…eighth graders. The eighth graders I flunked last year (sad to say that number has […]
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