Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Here is how is I have done thus far this year with my 2014 New Year's Resolutions: 1. Average ten minutes of organizing my house per day. I have not done well with my number one Resolution, having had about thirty days where I organized for ten minutes. I kept putting off my organizing, telling... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
She Couldn't Stop
One time, Mom was taking her daily nap in the family room when she let out a large snore that awakened her. "I woke up in the middle of it," she said, "but I couldn't get it to stop." I feel that was all the best. Given the intensity of the snore, her head might have exploded trying. Recommended... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
That Was Confusing
In the last entry of this series, I alluded to the fact that Phil Ribiero was disorganized in his running of the Methods of Teaching Social Studies. Here is one such example. One of our assignments was for each of the eight groups of two to do a presentation on a discipline of social studies. Each... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
99.9%
"Do you think the KKK is in South Korea?" Brian Gabber asked me one time. "No," I said. "Why not?" he asked. "I don't think a Klansman would live at a country that is 99.9% Asian," I explained. Recommended Reading He Caught a Bug http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/MyEducationExperience/808617 Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Jam-Packed
One of the reasons my peers did not like Phil Ribiero was because of how he ran the jammed-packed Methods of Teaching Social Studies. Eight pairs of students were expected to teach two fifty minute lessons, a twenty minute lesson and give a ten minute presentation on a social science discipline, the... Sign in to see full entry.