Comments on: Anyway.

By: dan

dan — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:56:44 +0000

Sick! Cool to hear it. Got another set comin’ up for your kids.

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:43:16 +0000

I must share the kudos…. my students love you. OK, well, more accurately, they love it when I show the content (videos, images, etc.) that you share. To give a slight explanation – this is “staff appreciation week” at our school (in this case staff = all employees), and today I had some 6th graders who slipped thank-you cards under my door. One of them said, “I love math and I really love your cool videos.” Alas, if only I had generated math teacher content on YouTube. But instead, he just meant the cool and more or less random content that I throw in every now and then. I must admit that you’re just one of my number of sources for this cool stuff (I particularly like my StumbleUpon toolbar in Firefox), but most recently my students have been wowed by the “How People Count Cash” video and the “Old Spanish Castle” image.

Note: this is NOT a math methods post!!

By: michael

michael — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:07:45 +0000

Being A computer tech at a school I am well versed in XKCD and quite surprised and delighted to see it.

By: Mr. K

Mr. K — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:18:49 +0000

thanks for the heads up on the spanish castle.

it fits perfectly into my lessons on negative numbers…

By: amy

amy — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:53:04 +0000

good stuff.

laughing is…well, just the best.

strong work, as always.

By: Benjamin Baxter

Benjamin Baxter — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:19:19 +0000

If I ever write a book called “Crystal Meth: Friend or Foe” it will be shorter than its title.

By: ken

ken — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:43:43 +0000

On another note, if I ever write a book, I must, must remember to use the title “The Ideal Pancreas”.

By: ken

ken — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:39:00 +0000

@ Rich (and by extension, Dan): “Now that thar is some good classroom management!”

BINGO! Although, still not a universal.

I’m always a fan (note: not biggest fan, not Kathy Bates like, no matter what you may say about me) of taking the odd and working some linguistic magic to make it all seem “valid” and “appropriate” for [insert content area] class.

Welcome back!

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:00:07 +0000

Now that thar is some good classroom management!

Whip out that Spanish castle image at just the right moment and I’m sure that I’ll get my classroom dead silent for at least 20 seconds (of course, then followed by gasps of amazement and overall chatter). The karate clip should be equally spellbinding.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:45:51 +0000

I can’t believe I still watched that karate one after your comment. And yet, I did. And now it will haunt my sleep tonight.

Can we go back to talking about classroom management now, please?