A school district in Colorado is changing the nature of school: One Colorado school district is going to shake things up by getting rid of grades. The move includes traditional letter grades and grade levels. The Adams County School District 50 school board approved a new system that lets students progress at their own pace. Students ...
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Words As Art: A Christmas Theme
The Christmas Story from Luke 2 in Wordle Form: Turned into some pretty nice artwork if I don't say so myself. What do you think? Go an create ...
Sharing Equals Culture
Only artifacts that leave the solitude of their inventor's studios and imaginations can move the horizons of possibility and become the raw material for more culture making. Until an artifact is shared it is not culture. ((Andy Crouch Culture-Making, pg. 40)) He goes on to quote Steve Jobs: “Real artists ship” My interpretation: Eric needs to get ...
Refusing Consuming
Much to Darling Wife's joy, I have been spending this evening cleaning up a stack of files several years old. Purging, condensing, and refiling. Though not as much “purging” as Wife would like. While perusing my accumulations of papers and articles over the years I came across this one. It is an essay that was ...
Zander On Human Potential
I came across this video the other day via Presentation Zen and realized as I was watching that this would probably be a good piece for teachers (as well as administrators) to view. What do you think?
Happy Birthday John Milton 1608-1674
400 years ago today the writer of Paradise Lost was brought forth into this world. Of Man’s first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe. Paradise ...
Agregado Theme
Bear with the ups and downs the next few days. I am tinkering around with this new theme (as you can see) from Darren Hoyt. I like the design and layout of the pages. Still trying to figure out certain aspects of the right sidebar on the main page. What do you think?
New Member of the Nativity
You have go to be kidding me!
What Did Shakespeare Eat?
If you ever needed to know what they were eating in the 16th. century or when humans began consuming milk for that next big historical novel you are working on, then you need to go here: Food Timeline: Food History and Historic Recipes. I haven't gazed at the recipes yet but hey...Christmas break is ...