[See Part 1 here. And trust your friendly Salesman: the gifts at the end of this post can make you happier for the rest of your life.] Then she opened up a book of poems and handed it to me Written by an Italian poet from the 15th century. And every one of those words [...]
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Farewells, Four Loves, Confucius, etc.
Saturday, 5 June 2010
[S]peaking about his own spiritual development, Confucius said: “At fifteen I set my heart on learning. At thirty I could stand. At forty I had no doubts. At fifty I knew the Decree of Heaven. At sixty I was already obedient [to this Decree]. At seventy I could follow the desires of my mind without [...]
Photoshop Help Wanted: Banner Needed for New Website
Saturday, 23 January 2010
New Tech Teaching Habits
Thursday, 31 December 2009
I think this question would make either a good meme or a good open thread: What new routines have worked their way into your teaching-and-learning life as a result of the digital revolution? I’ll share a couple of mine. I think history teachers will find the first one valuable, but teachers of any discipline can [...]
Bush Accepts Evolution, not a “Literalist” (video)
Monday, 15 December 2008
Oh, the French wit. Just the right sauce for my Freedom Fries: Asked to sum up Bush’s record on the [climate change] issue, France’s climate ambassador Brice Lalonde chose instead to pass on a story he had heard. A man comes to the White House asking to see Bush. “He doesn’t live here anymore,” he [...]
The Audacity of . . . . Culture!
Tuesday, 9 December 2008
Life Calls: Back in a Few Days
Sunday, 7 September 2008
I’ve spent the morning telling my little Korean nieces and nephew that their grandmother has “gone to sleep,” while others are telling them she “go into the sky.” Always the teacher. It makes me think of the end of Gilgamesh. But that’s ten chapters away. Wherever my mother-in-law is, my wife’s family and I agree [...]
Video on The Benefits of Co-Teaching: A Blast from 2005
Friday, 4 January 2008
I don’t discuss my years as an English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL, a.k.a. ESL) specialist much on these pages, mainly because there are no ESOL students at my high school. But the experience of being a second teacher in the content-area classroom when I wore this hat? That’s some good fodder for thinking [...]
Weird – How to Comment on That Last Post
Thursday, 13 December 2007
One for the Science Teachers: A New Crop of Sci-Tubes
Friday, 7 December 2007
E-School News just published an article (free registration may be required) about what we geeks would call “science digital storytelling.” What I find exciting about this is that it shows scientists in action, in their labs, explaining their real-world scientific experiments for the layperson. It links to four new online video sites, modeled after YouTube, [...]






