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spring?

March 29, 2022

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36 degrees today… 23 mph but I *did* get 13 miles in. I’ve been thinking about teaching middle school and how we’d say “the sap is rising” when behavior got interesting. Woudl it be a squirtgun year? This week I should endeavor to learn songs to be ready should that be called for because we […]

AC method

March 25, 2022

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Today peer tutors near close of day said “help! tomorrow we’re supposed to show the AC method and we don’t know it!” Factoring is a task that — sorry, anti-memorization folks — goes so much better if you know your times tables. It is also something that easily waxes entirely procedural. Sorry, curriculum writers, forcing […]

Spinning

March 20, 2022

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I espied a 10 minute podcasty thing that mentioned a person I’d be interested in hearing from. First chunk of time of the thing was talking about not hitting record on the first attempt (after the usual intro stuff) and then they took to discussing having guest speakers, and that they had done it several […]

tl/dr tryin’ to focus

March 15, 2022

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9:49 let’s caption that baby. 10:13, no I really mean it this time 🙂 DONE, 10:33… but now to figure out subtitle settings. Because 20 times 100 is a lot of minutes for the amount of videos, or, saving 10 minutes on 100 videos is a lot of minutes 😉 But no clues. So I […]

Spring Pause

March 15, 2022

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No classes this week and we’ve got Friday off. Sigh, it really did only take two “Pomodoros” — 25 minute sessions, and they weren’t even distraction free — to polish the powerpoint and then record the 3′ video for subtracting. It took another two hours to figure out where to click to actually get the […]

Saint Murphy

March 5, 2022

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Murphy’s law says … the worst thing that can happen will. Except sometimes when things are piled up … you get an unannounced break. I discovered Saint Murphy when an exhausted teacher and … a hurricane plowed into the coast … for exactly long enough for them to call off school and then it went […]