Comments on: I Need Another Blog

By: Tone: Thoughts On Teaching

Tone: Thoughts On Teaching — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:17:54 +0000

[…] discussion of the poem with VW’s Night Driving, a video I stowed away a few months back after reading about it at Dan’s place, and you’ve got a good intro to tone. Students should leave the classroom with a firm […]

By: Edusphere Rodeo Roundup « I Spy Albuquerque Public Schools Education

Edusphere Rodeo Roundup « I Spy Albuquerque Public Schools Education — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:06:01 +0000

[…] Further down the “midway”, I found a really interesting blog entry (under the category “EduTechnology”) by blogger Dy/Dan about a sure-fire method for engaging students.Â It was really cool, interesting, and he’s a funny guy.Â Read it; he actually IS engaging. […]

By: dan

dan — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:37:09 +0000

Vixy.net. Preload then download. Drag but, you know. My district is nice and unfiltered, but we've got a home DSL line to service our entire district. Sah-low.

By: Jeff Wasserman

Jeff Wasserman — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:21:07 +0000

You can find every odd historical occurrence or fact or hot dog eating contest (e.g.) on YouTube or Flickr or wherever. Such fun times to be a teacher.

Yeah, especially when your district's IT department doesn't increase filtration to the point when I can't even get to this blog to show people your entries about layout and presentation. Ugh.

By: dan

dan — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:02:43 +0000

Agh. Blog faux pas. Added that link, thanks.

By: Scott Elias

Scott Elias — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:29:02 +0000

I like the idea of bringing in the seemingly-unrelated as well. And as a literature-lover myself, I had to Google a little bit about Dylan Thomas and “Under Milk Wood” so I wanted to share this link for anyone else interested in further reading:

http://snipr.com/1n9sj

By: Christian

Christian — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 04:21:39 +0000

“American Beauty” comes to mind, for obvious and not-so-obvious reasons.

The visuals are striking. Burton’s voice / Dylan’s language — even more so. Could 30-second spots become the poetic landscape of the future? Will I hear Neruda’s odes atop a shoe commercial soon?

Echo Jeff: “Great find.” Even better: “Great point.”

By: Marco Polo

Marco Polo — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 01:55:26 +0000

Thanks for the link. “Modelling curiosity”. A big range of concepts in a nutshell. Nice. I play background music sometimes, usually British stuff I’m fairly certain they might only just have heard of, ditto with clips from movies – no Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, etc – but stuff they probably won’t find on their Hollywood-saturated own, like Bend It Like Beckham, or any pre-Lord-of-the-Rings British movie, come to think of it! :-(

“spare projector and laptop”: makes me even more determined to insist on a classroom equipped with screen, or at least a whiteboard and curtains.

By: dan

dan — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 07:57:52 +0000

Glad you liked it and glad you’ve got a similar Cornucopia o’ Miscellany running in your classroom. Keeps things interesting for yourself, if no one else. If you ever find yourself with a spare projector and a laptop, the process opens right up. You can find every odd historical occurrence or fact or hot dog eating contest (e.g.) on YouTube or Flickr or wherever. Such fun times to be a teacher.

By: Jeff Wasserman

Jeff Wasserman — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 01:39:18 +0000

As a kid with a bobbing, jittery interest in just about everything, an adult whose interests didn't extend past her classroom door could only alienate me; that wasn't anybody I ever wanted to be.

Absolutely. And every time I find something that might be interesting, I kind of carry it around in my brain and drop it on my American Lit or Essay Writing classes--ecology, African pop music, a cool movie, a weird stat, anything. We just finished reading Slaughterhouse-Five, the study of which was an orgy of assorted facts about the universe, WWII, humor, politics, etc. And that VW commercial rocked my socks. And I absolutely detest commercials. Nice find, Dan.