“A Few Honest Words”

I used this as part of my lesson Thursday and Friday last week, after the Inauguration.  I had the students compare and contrast the message in this song with that of Juanes’s “Odio por amor” (we also did CLOZE activities with the song, etc.)  I came across the link through one of the people I [...]

Excuse me while I toot my own horn…

The six weeks ended Friday, and grades are due tomorrow morning.  I’m still not even close to done grading…  but, as I was going through this one assignment, one of my students wrote this:
I just thought I would tell you that I really liked
this assignment.Even though it took a long time, I
like watching the videos [...]

Help Wanted from an Earth Science Teacher

Please read this post from theinfamousj, looking for a few brave folks to video themselves near a famous/interesting city landmark, and giving their lattitude and longitude (website where you can find your coordinates is provided in the post).
This sounds like an AWESOME lesson!  And the magic of the Internetz can make it happen -help out, Internetz!
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Pressure relieved… for now

Feeling better about things today.  I feel I actually taught today.
I also scared my students.  One of my second period students emailed me during third period to tell me she was having trouble in my class.  This is Day Three of the school year.
Another student told me, when I saw her in the hall after [...]