I was reading a blog by a gifted teacher on Education Weekly. One of the things that she is involved with is helping start new gifted programs and train new gifted teachers. For one of her conferences she asked the gifted students in her program to finish the sentence "I like to be challenged. . ."; the students also chose their own pseudonym. ( Read more... )

I like to read the birth announcements in the papers, mainly to see what strange names parents are coming up with these days. I've noticed that often in the Socorro paper the last name of the mother and the last name of the father are different. Obviously there is the simple answer of "well, they're not married". Most likely. But I have noticed ( Read more... )

You know how you get into certain ways of doings things? For example, I know that the 900 part of the student ID numbers isn't really necessary; most of the people already have that typed in before you start talking. But the whole thing is how I remember the number ( Read more... )

I am not sure how to respond to this except maybe hiring is better than suing?

MIT students blocked from presentation.

On a happier note: 6 years of marriage today!

About a month or so ago, we brought Mara a G3 blue imac. It was supposed to come with both OS X and 9, as well as some games. Well, it came with X. We called and it seemed that they had two identical computers except for the OS 9. So they shipped the discs. Unfortunately, the OS 9 disc didn't work. So we have been playing around trying to get ( Read more... )

Your result for The Steampunk Style Test...
The Scientist

50% Elegant, 59% Technological, 57% Historical, 48% Adventurous and 14% Playful!


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When I lost my harddrive about a year ago, I lost all of my bookmarked comics. A few, I actually had the url memorised. Most were gone and I have been too lazy to get them back. I also keeping hearing about funny comics that I should be reading.

The ones that I know I am missing are the one for World of Warcraft and one that shadow016 told me about that ( Read more... )

Mara got her twin bed today. Just the bed, not the dresser/mirror or the nightstand. At a later point, we will get the dresser/mirror, but not the nightstand. She doesn't need it with two walls having a built-in shelf at just the right height. So now she is in a "big-girl's" bed, and I will be worrying about her falling off. Not that she is ( Read more... )

So I just brought Mara a computer off of Ebay.

It's a blueberry iMac and says that it has both Tiger and 9 on it, along with some games. The games mentioned included Tetris and Oregon Trail.

Which means that omnipaul may be on it more than Mara. Especially, since Mara will be restricted to 1 hour a day if she is good. That will probably entail ( Read more... )

So Chris is working on his homework for his class "The Art and Science of Teaching". Today's discussion topic was on the positive and negative effects of NCLB. One of the negative effects was since teachers have to focus more on the tests, character programs are falling to the wayside. Chris stated that that wasn't a bad thing; now parents have ( Read more... )