On Monday night, right after I was done on Skype with a few friends, my phone started ringing. It was from a number in my area code, so I answered, thinking it was a parent of one of my students. It was a Pastor from a church about 40 minutes south of here and he called to tell me that… Read more »
This entry is also being used for teacher challenge #5 – using images in posts. Last Saturday, I was healthy and privileged enough to be able to participate in the Icebreaker Indoor Marathon Relay. The Icebreaker weekend is a unique event which includes a full marathon, half-marathon, marathon relay, and 5K. The neat thing about the races is that they… Read more »
When I was pondering what to write about today, I looked in the box of tools that I use rather frequently with my job in education. One of the tools I’d like to share with you is Jing, by Techsmith. I mainly use Jing for its screencapture tool. For instance, when I was teaching our faculty how to set and… Read more »
This week’s Teacher Challenge post talked about many different things that are important to blogging. First, they mentioned RSS feeds and readers. My favorite reader of choice is Google Reader due to the fact that I use a lot of Google products already (Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Docs are my favorite!) Second was the topic of avatars. I’ve been… Read more »
One of the biggest challenges I have with many things in my life is being consistent. As you can see, my first week of blogging was filled with entries. Since then, virtual silence! I thought I’d share with you a post that I got from Twitter today. (See my little sidebar for my tweets!) I love Twitter because not only… Read more »
My 7th and 8th grade Literature classes recently finished listening to the audiobook of The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan. When I read the book last summer, I loved it and I knew I would have to share it with my class. Side note: I think that’s one of my favorite things about being a Literature teacher — you can… Read more »
The second update of the Teacher Challenge talks about how to write a blog post. Thankfully, I’ve been doing this for a little while and feel pretty comfortable with my writing. I am learning the WordPress dashboard and editing system with ease. I could understand how a non-tech-savvy person could be a little confused with how things work. (They had… Read more »
I would love to be able to motivate myself to wake up early in the morning to run. Unfortunately, in the battle that happens every morning, the snooze button usually wins. I would love for every student to be self-motivated. Wouldn’t that be fun? School would be so much easier! I’ve considered it something of a personal quest to develop… Read more »
Welcome to my new WordPress blog! I was looking for a blog platform that would be a more permanent place to share my personal stories as well as things I learn and implement in my teaching career. I first started blogging at Xanga. I didn’t really have a purpose to blogging there, and only a small audience of some of… Read more »