OFF: Welcome, New Readers

January 31, 2008 in Reading Response
Tags: metapost, off-topic, site traffic, traffic

It’s been a fun day-and-a-half. Just take a look at the traffic lately.

That’s almost as awesome as RSS.
Thanks for dropping by, friends. Oh, a hint: As a fledgling egocentric blogger, I like comments.
A thousand platitudes to Mr. Meyer for the ever-so-kind link.

Humor, Creativity, Originality

January 31, 2008 in Reading Response
Tags: creativity, design, entertainment, humor, originality, pedagogy, student, technology, ted, ted talks

Is there such a thing as too funny in lecture?
Sir Ken Robinson has a marvelous point about the creativity in the classroom. He’s also a proponent of humor, naturally.
I’d embed it, but I’m having trouble with the relevant code. Watch it here.
After watching it, although an extreme example — is there such a thing as [...]

The One Place I Want to Be In Case of a Fire

January 30, 2008 in Darndest Things
Tags: fire, fire alarm, meeting, rain, staff meeting, teacher, wet socks

I had my very first staff meeting on Monday. Eventful, even for a staff meeting, as it wasn’t 10 minutes into it that the fire alarm went off.
In the next few minutes, we the teachers very grudgingly left to go outside in the balmy January weather.
Grudgingly, of course, because it was raining outside. Call it [...]