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Monthly Archives: October 2008
Some Basic Psychology of Email
October 25, 2008 – 6:00 am
Email has different rules than writing because it touches a different psychology.
The Fire Drill
October 25, 2008 – 6:00 am
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The last fire drill we had I knew it was coming. The Principal had sent a mass email out to staff declaring it would happen and the nature of the drill. It was pretty basic so I got my clipboard and had the kids line up quickly but without too much hysteria. When we got [...]
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October 24, 2008 – 8:00 am
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Sitting down with the intent to write is creative suicide. Bringing inspiration from somewhere or sometime else in your life is the key to sitting down and writing. Throughout the day, be imagining solutions. In your car, when that traffic threatens to give you a coronary, breathe. Use visualization to see solutions. The world needs [...]
Don't Let Bad Energy People Bother You
October 24, 2008 – 6:00 am
You can’t make everybody like you and sometimes you have to take responsibility to emotionally move on.
Take Breaks, Retain More
October 23, 2008 – 6:00 am
Take intermittent breaks when you are studying, you’ll retain a lot more for a lot longer.
Managing with Electronic To-Do Lists
October 23, 2008 – 6:00 am
Rememberthemilk.com is an excellent resource for teachers and anyone who works with deadlines. It is a task management site where you register to keep all your important “to-do” lists there. Beyond that, there are many little features that make keeping your priorities a blast! I integrate it into my igoogle page and I have the [...]
Can One be Enough?
October 21, 2008 – 9:49 pm
I am making blogging easier for myself by imagining one reader instead of hundreds.
Think Outside the Box with Kids
October 21, 2008 – 9:52 am
One thing I have learned in years of teaching is that kids remember better when you teach non-traditionally. There is a lot of value in traditional frameworks but it is when you step outside that you really imprint to memory. I remember when I was in college I had a college algebra professor who would [...]