Archive for the 'Education' Category
Five Year Plan
I appreciate the power of databases, I do. After all, we all deal with databases constantly, from iTunes and iPhoto to IMovie there’s a whole lot of databasin’ going on.
One thing I’d love would be a way to organise all my lesson presentations, handouts, vague lesson plans and student records. I already use Numbers for [...]
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3 days of the condor
If it’s Thursday it must be a snow day, the third this week. I’m not keen on snow (not keen on much of anything), but since becoming a teacher I’ve learned to take it as a blessing. An extra day off work in the dark half of the year is not to be sniffed at, [...]
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Tags: snow days
What have I done to myself?
Older readers will be aware that I have a chip on my shoulder so big that it can be seen from space. This makes it hard for me to be living here in the Tory heartland where every non-Conservative vote is a wasted vote. Were it not for the fact that I had the misfortune [...]
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Mean and Stupid, Stupid and Mean
You get a flavour of the poisonous atmosphere of the Guardian’s Comment is Free section when you see that it takes just eight (8) comments on the thread about rock drummers (apropos the death of Mitch Mitchell) before someone trots out the old line about Ringo not even being the best drummer in the Beatles. [...]
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This question was actually asked by one of my students yesterday – and one of the brighter ones, too. I’d just played out the finest moment in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, when Ferris mimes to “Twist and Shout” and all of America dances to it, and I asked the question, “And what were they dancing [...]
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Tags: Beatles
We are a Medium
I bought a new belt, as do-it-yourself belt holes tend to be unsatisfactory. As of right now, I’m officially a Medium in belt sizes, not a Large. This is because I have dropped around 7kg (a stone… ish) since starting WeightWatchers (online) just under 6 weeks ago.
You don’t need to be a maths genius to [...]
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Tags: diets, lifestyle, slimming, weight loss, weightwatchers
Weekend Blogger
Today was sports day, a bummer because it meant I lost my best day of the week, Friday, the day for which I have no lessons to prepare. So instead of catching up on marking and planning, I spent the day standing out on the field doing crowd control and suffering paroxysms of boredom. It’s [...]
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Modernism Schmodernism
TS Eliot: post-modernist, apparently
Hobby Horse time. When I arrived at university at the age of 28, I only had the vaguest idea of what modernism was, a fact I attributed to my less-than-perfect education in English literature. I’ve never been fond of English (as in British) writing, preferring American, and I don’t really enjoy literature [...]
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Dear Apple,
I just received an email from you with the subject, Make Your Customers Even Happier. Give iPod.
Now, I’ve not got any customers, sorry, unless you count my students, and I’m certainly not planning on giving those kind of corporate gifts to my students anytime soon. I’m giving them the gift of education. I’m inspiring young [...]
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rose, originally uploaded by mcmrbt.
Further to the recent Dire Straits controversy, I decided to spend the 79 pence to get the 8.5 minute live version (from Alchemy). Most of the extra minutes on the recording are shockingly bad 80s stadium rock filler, so the core of the song itself is basically the same.
On my main [...]
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Tags: dire straits, name of the rose, novels, romeo and juliet, semiotics, umberto eco
