Last week we “hired” a new AP Language teacher. As you may know Shirley Crabtree is headed to Perry, so we desperately needed someone. We did discuss in house people, and Ken James had someone in mind. When Liza and I met her, we were really excited and recommended her to district immediately. She seemed [...]

Posted in AP Lang, technology

Today was the last day with seniors, and the rest of finish in the middle of next week. I came into my room the other day, and Joe was just sitting there. He gave me this look and I asked what was up. Turns out that he’d never gotten to that point before. Never gotten [...]

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Shelley & I got together at Paradise Bakery yesterday to work on our English 101 course. I was mildly excited since it’d been more than a month since we could really discuss it. The afternoon revolved around a couple of things. First, we tried to use Acrobat Buzzword, which is Adobe’s answer to Google Docs, [...]

Posted in eng101, grading, web2.0

My mini presentation on Gmail for MaricopaTech 2008.

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My presentation on Google Calendar for MaricopaTech 2008.

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Originally on XKCD @ http://xkcd.com/79/

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At the end of the week I had a sit down with my new boss, Ken James, who is a pretty cool guy. I wanted to talk to him about American Studies and the trip to Boston. He explained how team teaching has and has not worked in the past, and the successful scenarios are [...]

Posted in AP Lang, American Studies