This blog is only about a week old, and as such, I can already see that I need to try to balance some of the heavier topics (read: wordier…) with some lighter topics (if only for MY sanity). So, I decided to show that where I live (Northern Minnesota), it has been getting quite cold [...]

  I’ve heard a lot about how terrible it is to have to “teach for the test”, this maxim, most often presented with some anecdotal stories about teachers having to drop everything and spend all of their time coaching their students with the answers to Standardized tests. This is seen as a gross affront to [...]

Teach what you will test…this was mentioned more than a few times in my Education classes in college. It would seem to be a self-evident, no-brainer type thing to have to say (over and over again, as it happened at school). Since then I have seen some things that make me want to emphasize this [...]

Under the heading of this category (learning) I will be showing you a few things, giving some (unsolicited) advice, and generally explaining some of the things you could be doing with your PC. I should probably state up front that this information is primarily focused for owners of PC’s with Windows Vista or Windows 7, [...]

30 years ago I was in middle and high school. For many of my classes I was often subjected to spending a lot of class time filling in ‘worksheets’. This action is usually done by doing simple word searches of the assigned textbook. This sort of ‘word search’ is the antithesis of what is needed [...]

Image via Wikipedia This is yet another post to see if I can post from my NetBook (at a coffee shop, no less!)