Comments on: Obama’s Joint Sessions Speech: The Education Excerpt

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:52:26 +0000

I think we need as teachers need to be aware of government’s impact on our profession.

I think a great idea would be to explore how to increase the quality of the environment in our schools now. By doing this, there may be more motivation to attend a school of higher learning and increase the tools we have to succeed once we get there.

By: Dan Meyer

Dan Meyer — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:19:33 +0000

This was a rip from an HD YouTube file, which isn’t all that bad. Sometimes when this guy I know wants to pull stuff from broadcast television, he’ll download the torrent and then convert it from AVI to Mac-friendly QuickTime using Handbrake or FFMpeg. Not me, though. That’s wrong.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:22:01 +0000

What setup do you use to rip video from TV? Playing with some things here but not happy with anything so far.

By: ken

ken — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:25:48 +0000

Probably a message lost on the kids. Why, I remember how I dramatically changed my world view every time the president spoke while I was in high school.

When I heard this part, all I thought about was how uncomfortable how it must make many a teacher feel, what with the pressure and all to ‘learn something new’.

Practicing what we preach is a tough, tough business.

By: A. Mercer

A. Mercer — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:08:56 +0000

Yeah, I was twittering while watching the address at the gym last night, and this got a BIG hit on twitter/plurk after he said it.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:56:11 +0000

Well, this bls list of the fastest growing occupations could easily kill the vibe…but it seems like a decent supplement to have on hand: http://www.bls.gov/oco/pdf/ocotjt1.pdf

By: Jen

Jen — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:36:57 +0000

Thanks for uploading. I look forward to showing it to my students. I’m not expecting magical transformations, but most of them worship Obama, so maybe they’ll give the ol’ stay-in-school message a little extra thought if it comes from him.