Monthly Archives: December 2007

A Merry Lego Santa Claus Family Portrait

December 18, 2007 – 8:59 pm

The first 15 minutes of the Lego® Store on Michigan Avenue in Chicago is fairly entertaining; anything beyond that becomes a form of Chinese lead torture.
It’s what they love now, Legos®, and both Evan and Colin arrange much of their living space around the mighty investment into the building brick sets. Evan [...]

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Coffee Stains: The Five People you meet in School

December 11, 2007 – 11:15 pm

I’ve just finished emailing a former student and saying that I couldn’t attend her wedding reception in a few weeks. And it’s got me thinking about a previous comment that I’ve made to a student when they asked “Do you like all of your students?” To which I replied simply “No.” And I think that [...]

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Stikkit to Lesson Plans

December 7, 2007 – 6:06 pm

(And my apologies to Stikkit for the lousy title).
I’m as interested as the next teacher who likes the technology stuff to get organized. Lesson planning is no exception.
Most of us began our scripting of beautiful lesson plans with those really nice spiral-bound Lesson Plan books that even gave us some overview of the basics of [...]

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Coffee Stains: Bet your bottom dollar

December 5, 2007 – 9:19 pm

Annie was my second cassette purchase; The Muppet Movie, the first.
Sure, I had owned several LPs (mostly from the soundtrack genre), but when we got our first tape recorder, our view of music changed forever. We could, you see, record one of our records onto the tape and then hit the REWIND button and listen [...]

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