I guess someone knows from junior high. First comment gets it right. Nice.
index : finger :: molar : ______
X Files.
This kid was a big fan, but he thought Mulder’s name was Molar, and of course, what else could the answer be but…
X Files.
Dunno why he didn’t think it was Scully.
It was our first day back in the classroom after 8 days in the library. We were all glad to be back. “Oh, my clicker…how I’ve missed you.” One of them actually said that. OMG. What a day. Full of action, and laugh after laugh. First there was the video. YouTube is blocked in our district. Our head of IST keeps bleating about CIPA and how YouTube doesn’t filter, and…anyway, we can’t use YouTube. But finally, they created a workaround for us. We have to do things from home rather than from school, but it works OK. We find the YouTube video we want to use, and copy the URL. Then we go to the district’s “safe video portal” and paste it in. Then we can approve our own video, and use the safe portal to show it at school. It’s a bit clunky, but it works fine. Yesterday I added a video. I hadn’t even showed it yet, when I got an e-mail from my principal. I have only added a couple of videos before, but both of them were of the nutty variety, rather than the “educational” sort. One of them is near the top of the most [...]
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ok, i just read a ton of your posts and you are my new hero. you almost make me wish i was still teaching ELA so i could still teach the outsiders–even though i CAN’T STAND that book. it’s just that your ideas and class comments are so interesting.
–for the record, i thought the outsiders was lame when i read it in 7th grade. adult perspective did nothing to change that. it was kind of fun to teach though. cuz the kids liked it so much.