Archive for July, 2008

Rebuilding Together

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

One thing I’ve always wanted to do, but I’ve never done, was to do the “Christmas in April”, or as it’s known now, “Rebuilding Together“.  This is where businesses get employees to dedicate one day (this last Saturday) to help fix up someone’s house in the area.  With all the things I’ve tried to do [...]

High Schools New Face

Monday, July 21st, 2008

What an incredible collaboration at High Schools New Face from  JMT of the Western New York BOCES.  Held at Holiday Valley in Ellicottville, NY.  There are way too many people to thank and acknowledge here, but I will talk about our cohort and some of the national presenters.
First of all if you’ve neve been to [...]

Lively.com : Google

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Trying to work my way around Lively, Google’s new MUVE release.  Since I’ve had little time to play, I’m hoping for help.  Since I couldn’t get my name, or mcarls, I had to go with my third option of Dukefan12.

I even tried to start Plurkville as a place to meet for educators on Plurk, but [...]

Back in the swing

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Now that I’m back to work and survived the holiday weekend I’m trying to get back in the swing of things.  Here is what’s on tap:
Wednesday, leave for DATAG conference in Albany, NY.  I found out to be careful Googling this one, there is another site NOT quite committed to DATA!?!?  This workshop should be [...]

Rookie at NECC

Friday, July 4th, 2008

I used to always tell my math students before taking one of my tests to grab as many jacks as you can.  That, and of course to use good “Mathish”.  The reason I say that about the jacks is because I would say that I’m throwing 45 jacks on the ground.  Pick up as many [...]