August 2009 - Posts
It's the end of the second week of school, I've got a bagful of graded papers and tests, and I can't enter them into the grading software (district-wide), because the software still is not working. And, BTW, we haven't been assigned IDs and passwords.
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OTOH, I managed to complete 3 of next week's lesson plans in the e-Chalk format. It's new to me, so I've been slow to get things up. However, I can see that it will be a time-saver. There is a pre-set format (you don't have to use it), the standards are
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The voice is back; the breathing is better, thanks to the miracle of modern drugs. But my feet are killing me. By the end of the day, my left instep and ankle are swollen - I've been hitting the Epsom Salts every night. My right big toe has fallen victim
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Being sick in the summer sucks. I am just out of the hospital - asthma attack, complicated by pneumonia. I had been visiting family in Cleveland, and attending my class reunion. While I was able to make all events, I was definitely sub-par. Right after
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I found a link to this speech on a email. It resonated with me because I remember what a physics professor once told me - you have to instill students with a PASSION for the subject. You have to emotionally engage them before they will buy into the work
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