Category: education
02/08/10
1Plain View #111 - Post Christmas, 2010 The winter was a dark one. Wolves howled. Small fires flickered. And men huddled together in caves. But in the midst of the cold and darkness a small light shone.And that small light was… more »
12/18/09
Plain View #110 - November 13, 2009 Blackhawk PrideDoug Loves MoviesStrandedBody HeatScene ItThis Is ItCommunityTumblrsubscribe to this podcast! more »
10/23/09
Plain View #107 - part 2 - September 8, 2009 social studiesDr. ChangObamaWillTumblrsubscribe to this podcast! more »
10/20/09
Plain View #107 - part 1 - September 8, 2009 Night of the HunterPainted HillsCaddy ShackLie to MeschoolTumblrsubscribe to this podcast! more »
07/21/09
Plain View #103 - part 2 - June 11, 2009
Psych
Weeds
Entourage
Leverage
So You Think You Can Dance
Burn Notice
Madmen
Blue Shoes
Pillars of the Earth
Jesus Interupted
Crypted Hunters
Hugo Cabret
Last Dragon
Summ… more »
05/01/09
Plain View #101 - March 27, 2009
Tropic Thunder
The Circus
Transamerica
T.V.
The Man Who Loved Clowns
Educational Stuff
Field Trip
Will's B-Ball Tourny
Maly's Glasses
Fulton
Bill Clinton
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11/25/08
Here's an edited version of my most recent communion meditation.
It may be surprising to some of you, but in my experience, high school students have a lot of interests outside of their class work. In some cases their only interests lie outside their… more »
11/04/08
the sitter
a mangy shack of a thing
across the street from the giant grain elevators
next to the railroad tracks
a mean little place
in the middle of a neighborhood
abandoned by time
waist-high wire fence
surrounds the place
weeds grow up… more »
10/20/08
This was easily the most difficult poem for all of us to write. We were to creat an illogical world. I don't think any of us created a world that was illogical enough. At any rate. Here's my attempt.
Someday I'll be big enough
"I can't ho… more »
10/14/08
The sun goes down early in the fall,
burning leaves and cool
Autumn bite in the air.
We sit on the front porch
and one, two, three, not it!
our voices echo down the dark street.
The loser, now a gray wolf
lopes into the wild
behind the house,… more »
10/13/08
I guess my poetry has inspired others to try their hand. Here's one from my mom.
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I run
The sweat slides down my face into my eyes
My mouth is dry
My heart tears at my chest
My lungs feel as if they will burst
My leg muscles cramp
I… more »
10/10/08
Click
I look up from my work.
I've been crossing out lines
and writing new ones
and kind of forgot where I was -
on my stool - perched above
a classroom half-full of
high school students.
Some sit near one another,
others alone. Their heads… more »
10/05/08
Plain View #93 - Sept 12, 2008
Day after the 11th
Guitar Hero
Big Lebowski
Same Time Next Year
Keen Eddie
NBC
Lady doctor
4-H - it's still a thing
Kid stories
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10/04/08
When I have time to share my poems with my students, they are generally supportive, almost always polite. But sometimes they give me a look that says, "The hell?" I laughed out loud after reading this one to them. The looks on their faces were pricele… more »
09/29/08
I'm teaching a creative writing class this year. I haven't taught this before, and I'm really enjoying it. So far they've produced some good stuff. I'm making an effort to keep up with the students, writing the same things that I'm assigning. I figur… more »
09/12/08
Plain View #92 - Aug 28, 2008 - part 1
New School
Paradise Now
Anime
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Reaper
T.V. conversation
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08/06/08
Plain View #90 - July 15, 2008 - part 1
Jenny Shout out
Beer & Ice cream
Summer - sleeping in
Bachelorette - so fun
Burn Notice
Wall-E
Big
Vacation
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07/15/08
Plain View #89 - June 89, 2008
end of summer school
upcoming trip
treadmill
ipod
bourne flicks
no country for old men
crash
silly summer shows
will - church & the devil
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06/18/08
Plain View #88 - May 25, 2008
The Orphanage
There Will Be Blood
The Mist
Senior Trip
Colorado Springs
Guest Stars
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06/04/08
Plain View #87 - April 30, 2008
Nim's Island
TV
Pretty Woman
Day of Silence
Everything Must Change
Gay Bishop
Hapkido
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05/03/08
Plain View #86 - April 17, 2008
St. Stan's
Once
Social Networking
Like Cats & Dogs
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03/24/08
Plain View #83 - March 6, 2008
King of Kong
The Crucible
Peak by Roland Smith
Evolution
Science vs. Ignorance
Internet Cartoon
Lent
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06/22/07
Plain View #71 - June 14, 2007
Bufe
summer school
doctor doctor
rotten tomatoes
Heroes
Studio 60
garden
Rabbit's ear
Apocalypto
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05/02/07
Plain View #67 - April 26, 2007
Bufe
Fairy tale parody
World View
Kurt Vonnegut
Memory of Running
The Yearling
The Crucible (spoiler)
Children of Men
Beaver Trilogy
Battlestar
Bug Book
The Skull Camper
The Paperboy… more »
04/26/07
Plain View #66 - April 12, 2007
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Kids collection
Ski trip
Talladega Nights
Potty talk
Sweet Hereafter
(the rural juror)
Research paper
Atheists
Extreme Home Makeover
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02/03/07
Plain View #61 - January 19, 2007
Sick Daughter
Snow Day
Crazy Parents
The Bush Show
Notorious Bettie Page
Exorcist
Studio 60 - watch it, save the show
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12/12/06
Plain View #57 - November 30, 2006
Snow Day
Carcassonne (Maly)
Driving Students Crazy
Dirty Pictures
You shouldn't call him Lifesaver! You should call him . . .
Mean Girls
Studio 60
Product Placement
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04/18/06
Plain View #39 4/5/06
Kaleidoscope
Will and Maly's new blog
fortnight
Off the Map
Bed wetting alarms
The Kurths
N.T. Wright
Burning Car (not the same story, but almost as good)
Ramblin' Educat inspired rant
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01/29/06
Plain View #34 1/25/06
Students
Bush
DARE/Cops
Sickness
More Death Penalty
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01/14/06
Plain View #33 1/11/06
Woody Allen's Melinda & Melinda
Brokeback Mountain and holy theater owner
Props to PBS (Reagan and C.S. Lewis)
Death Penalty Challenge is over
DARE (Don't DARE?)
Judgy Students
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01/01/06
Plain View #31 12/14/05
Our Belated Christmas New Year Show. Happy Easter everybody!
No reply to last week's challenge
Too much Christmas giving
Intelligent design
Matt, the drama queen
Teacher gifts
Brewing
Satan Claus
Bethan… more »
12/04/05
Plain View #29 12/1/05
After much technical difficulty, a week's worth to be exact. We finally have the next show down. The stupid recorded kept stopping after 4 minutes and 15 seconds. And the stupid podcasters kept talking without checking to see… more »
11/19/05
Plain View #28 11/16/05
Matt: Hell Week, Princes Bride, and some other stuff
Mare: Quiz Bowl, Teaching the Kids to Swear
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10/31/05
My students have finished their podcasts. They are a mixed bag. There are some obvious technical problems. But overall, I think they are a great reflection of the thoughts and personalities of my students. I think at least one group will continue to… more »
10/27/05
I recently put up some new picks on flicr. If you can't see the pics of my kids, let me know and I'll put on as a family or friend. (Only difference is you must be famliy to see my speedo pics.) If you can't see the pics at all, let me know and I'll t… more »
10/16/05
Plain View #24 10/12/05
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This week: Kids - cute but in trouble, Wiring the Students, Media - Comedian, T.V. more »
10/07/05
Inspired by Kyle, here's the list of the ALA's most frequently challenged books of 1990-2000. I like Kyle's idea of putting read books in italics and recommened books in bold. So I did that too.
1. Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz… more »
10/02/05
I posted to YouTube the one class skit that got recorded in my Applied Communication class.
My plan is to have the kids do one of these each quarter. Most of them turned out pretty good. I'm sure they'll get better as the year goes on. more »
10/01/05
Here's a wiki experient I'm sharing with my students. I don't know how long it will last, as freshmen (boys) seem to have a tendency to fall back to name calling pretty quickly. Fortunately you can't punch someone through the internet yet. Anyway, if… more »
09/15/05
Ok. I've fixed it so you can comment on my students' blogs without the class password. Comment away.
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09/08/05
Well, my students are blogging. And I have to say I'm pretty excited about it. The kids seem to be enjoying it. I think they understand that as participants in a pilot program, the pressure is on them to blog responsibly. I'm sure we'll have to have… more »
09/05/05
Plain View #19 8/31/05
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Mare's List: school, the pledge, hapkido
Matt's List: viewer mail, movies, time more »
06/24/05
Plain View #13 6/24/05
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I have lost our lists, but I believe it went a little something like this:
-Jesus as Lonejack
-Mare's 80's list
-Baseball, it's time to let it go
-Students making me crazy more »
05/12/05
plainview #8 5/11/05
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Mare's List:
1) public education
Matt's List:
1) working for the man
2) the girl's special day
Links:
Jeff Oestreich Music
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05/07/05
How can I be one of those teachers?
Learing to Learn more »
So next year I'll be teaching freshman English. At least that's what I think is going to happen. So in thinking about what I'm going to teach next year, and how I'm going to teach it, I began to think about why I'm going to teach it. This is generally… more »
