August 2008 - Posts
Thanks to our good friend Carol over at My Bell Ringers , my " Darth Vader Explains the Pythagorean Theorem " YouTube video has been linked by a columnist at the London Times !! Early yesterday afternoon, the video had 856 hits. . . This evening, it has
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This week's Carnival of Education is brain-based, and it's being held over at Sharp Brains right now! Go check it out to see all the great articles, including my quick hits on the first day of school . The girl who is obsessed with my hair remains obsessed.
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School has already started, but this week's Mr. Teacher column on education.com is titled Practice Q&A , and it is intended to be an aid to parents for getting their kids ready for going back to school. Teachers ask a lot of questions -- the kids
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One day of the '08/'09 school year is now under my belt, and another exciting nine months begins! I actually woke up at 4:30 this morning and took a walk around my neighborhood before getting ready to go to school. I also had a dream last night where
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Tomorrow is the first day of school for all of us Texas public school teachers, and I know we're all running around like chickens with our heads cut off (a favorite saying of my old high school basketball coach, The Guam Bomb). So just a quick little
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Today was a fracking long day. I felt like a hamster on a wheel -- dead tired, didn't very far, and smelling of wet fur. So much still to do, and only tomorrow to do it in! Will my room be ready by Monday???
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This week's Carnival of Education is being hosted at my fellow Dallas teacher's blog -- Bell Ringers ! Lots of great articles to choose from over there, including the chance to see if you are smarter than an eighth grader, the opportunity to agree or
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This week's Mr. Teacher column on education.com is titled Teacher in a Strange Land , and it's a short recounting of my first trip back to my school last week. I've moved into a brand new room for this year, and it's taking me a while to grow accustomed
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Dude, you gotta, like, check this out , especially if you, like, teach in Dallas. Excellent!! Learn Me Good Share this post: Email It | Bookmark It | Digg This | Reddit | Stumble It Add to favorites: Favorite Post | Favorite Blog | Favorite Author
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Kelly Curtis, who writes the blog Pass the Torch honored me by sending me an advance copy of her new book, Empowering Youth: How to Encourage Young Leaders to Do Great Things . On the back cover, she poses the question: How do you bring out the power
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My last somewhat creative project of summer vacation is finally complete. Inspired by last month's trip to Comic-Con, I decided to smash up my love of all things math and all things Star Wars and create this video -- Darth Vader Explains the Pythagorean
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This week's Mr. Teacher column over on education.com is my own little celebration of the Olympics, going on as we speak over in Berlin. Mine is perhaps a bit more on the wordy side, and less on the feats of physical ability side, but hey, at least there
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For the past month or so, I've noticed through my stat tracker, that a LOT of my hits to this blog are coming from people doing a search on "Welcome Letter to Parents" or some variation on that theme. So for their benefit, as well as anyone who may not
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Richie at Bell Ringers tagged me last week for a meme on, as the Comic Book Dude from The Simpsons would say -- Worst. Job. Ever. I've had some pretty rotten jobs, though none that I would compare to some of the all-time worst jobs in the world. For instance,
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What with my extensive travels lately and all, it seems I haven't entered or explored the Carnival of Education for a few weeks. This week, though, I'm back, and I'm pointing people towards Pass the Torch , which is where it is being held! My post about
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Hey everyone, Here in Texas, we've only got 2 weeks left before we have to report back to our schools, and the kids come a-knockin' on August 25! For my Mr. Teacher column on education.com this week, I thought I'd offer a few suggestions on things to
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Continuing in my ongoing saga of relating my Comic-Con vacation... After being denied access to the Watchmen preview, my friend and I decided to take no chances on being kept out of Heroes and Lost the next day. We set the alarm for 5:30 a.m. and we got
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I just want to take a second and say thank you to everyone who has taken me up on my request to ask for a copy of Learn Me Good at your local library. If the Amazon numbers are to be believed, it looks like a lot of copies are being bought. That means
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Continuing the reenactment of my trip to San Diego for this year's Comic-Con, we come to day three, Friday. This was the day that timing really started to get critical, as they were many events that we WANTED to see, but several of them were at conflicting
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