My Very Educated Mother

Back in the dark ages, when I was a kid, there were nine planets. Mr. McClain, our science teacher, taught us a mnemonic to remember them. “My very educated mother just served us nine pizza-pies.” Lots of kids learned this mnemonic, though some mothers served other P-foods. Other mothers showed their kids nine planets instead. [...]

Posted on February 28th, 2008 by John Schinker
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Snow Day

I’ve always thought of snow days as a gift. I never really count on them. There’s no guarantee that we’ll have any in a given year. I always assume we’re going to have school. Then, when they come, it’s a pleasant surprise. Truth-be-told, it shouldn’t make that much difference. I don’t work directly with students [...]

Posted on February 27th, 2008 by John Schinker
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Senduit

“Is this file too big to send in an email?” “Why, yes, I’m glad you asked.” I had spoken to a teacher on just this topic earlier in the day, after she tried to send a 100 MB attachment. Several times. “So how am I going to get it to him?” “Use Senduit.com.” “Senduit?” “Send [...]

Posted on February 19th, 2008 by John Schinker
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Believers

The results from the latest Biennial Educational Technology Assessment are in. Every two years, teachers in Ohio are required to complete the 48-question BETA surveys that measure teachers’ access to, use of, and attitudes toward technology. I haven’t really spend much time digging in to this year’s results, but I did notice that teachers’ attitudes [...]

Posted on February 15th, 2008 by John Schinker
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I Want My eeePC

I received our Asus eeePCs yesterday. After playing with a couple at the tech conference last week, I thought it would be worth the investment to try a few out in the district. I bought one for each building, plus one for my techs to share and one for me to play with. That’s a [...]

Posted on February 14th, 2008 by John Schinker
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