Hello everyone and welcome to my brand new blog. Hopefully everyone got the Elton John allusion in the title of the post. I changed to blogger from wordpress mainly because I had more freedom with the template design. Speaking of template design, I hope this template continues to work. I have spent hours fighting with it--for now it looks okay, but who knows what tomorrow will bring.
How are things at the middle school Chris?
Oh, thanks for asking. Things are going really great. I will admit that after having some strange 21-year-olds stuck in 12-year-old bodies come visit me (without the parents) and give me a questioning "areyoureallythatlame" look after I cracked a joke or two, I was wondering what I had gotten myself into. But, a couple of weeks into it (can you believe we have two weeks in before labor day?), it's really great. With one prep I feel like I can be a good teacher finally. I never really felt that at the high school--but trust me, I was trying. It also helps that I finished grad school (again) in May. It's official. I got my administrator's license over the summer (look here if you don't believe me (and search for your friends too)). I'm just waiting for Dr. Evil to turn me into a fool.
Anyway, I'm going to run the site a little differently this year. I'm still going to try to update you with resources on the Internet, but I'm also going to comment on some issues for reflection and to just throw some things up in the air for discussion. I'll also use the micro-blog host twitter for quick bits of info and ideas. Please feel free to create an account there and follow me. Also don't forget to RSS this blog or follow my blog with google friends connect. (RSS by cliking the orange icon on the Explorer menu bar by the home icon. It's a way to subscribe to my blog so you get updates every time I post something. This will show up under the faviorites tab above, under "feeds.")
It's late/early, but I'm still going to leave you with some things to start the new school year (One is a repeat from last year, I know. But I like it.)
A video to motivate you: (from http://www.schooltube.com/v/70dd826ff5664d968e05)
A video that discusses motivation (it's long--more than 18 minutes--but well worth the time.): (from http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html)
And a grammar lesson from Weird Al (this one is short--and funny--so watch it): (from http://twitturly.com/url/04b1e3fb5b8ffe566e4f5792c37116da?utm_campaign=twitturly&utm_source=rss_perma&utm_medium=rss)
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