The Choices Teens Make

One of the blogs I read regularly, Webware, posted an article that I thought was interesting, titled “Survey: Teens ’sext’ and post personal info.” It sums up a recent study of teenagers and digital behavior, particularly focused on cyberbullying and sexting. Some of the data quoted in the article that caught my attention:
59 percent of [...]

Finding More Hours in the Day

The last several weeks have been absolutely hectic for me. It all started when I got sick and had to take my first sick day, but much of by busyness has little to do with my health. I’ve found myself overwhelmed with meetings, grading, baseball, football meetings (already!), and the stress of being a young [...]

Twitter Hits the Mainstream

A recent report from Bob Condotta on the Seattle Times’ Husky Football Blog notes that
Steve Sarkisian’s “Twitter” page had an announcement from him that a new wide receivers coach had been hired.
[...] I’m told today that [Twitter] is officially his way of passing on news to the Husky nation.
If Twitter had not already hit the mainstream consciousness [...]

My Three Favorite Words

I know it’s kind of random, but I thought I’d at least throw this out there.
I have favorite words. These are words that sound good, look good, and have some sort of important meaning to me. In an attempt to try something different, I thought I would share my three favorite words. Maybe you could share [...]

Apple’s Counterculture Movement

I’ve long held a grudge against Apple’s iPod. There’s really no particularly valid reason (at least, apart from using totally different formats to play music), but I just can’t stand the things. Even when I came into a 2 GB 2nd Gen Nano, I refused to buy into the greatness that is, purportedly, Apple. More [...]

Dealing with Change

“Everything is Changing,” by amanki

WordPress just unleashed a new interface – WordPress 2.7. It features a completely redesigned dashboard that took all of the familiar old buttons and boxes and moved them, recolored them, and sometimes even renamed them. It’s a nice looking redesign and everything I’ve heard suggests that it will end up being [...]

The Great Ideas

I just started reading a book that’s been on my Shelfari “Plan to Read” shelf for about a year. It’s called Six Great Ideas by Mortimer J. Adler. As I started reading this book, I realized that it touches on both of my academic passions: literature and philosophy (more of the latter, to be sure). [...]

Challenge Day

Last week our school hosted Challenge Day – a one day event that brings together a cross-section of the school and tries to help them see each other as people who go through similar things. The primary goal is to get kids who might not hang out or even get along to see how much [...]

Teaching About Poverty

My classes are in the process of working very hard on our economy unit as they try to figure out what the best use of $700 billion would be. It’s been an exciting project, but has also gotten me thinking about how some of the material we study in class might seem less relevant to [...]

Schoolhacking

I must be completely out of touch, since this was the runner up for the prestigious “word-of-the-year” in 2004, yet somehow I have never heard of “lifehacking.” My excuse is that I was still mired in the college-student mentality and, consequently, was completely out of touch with the world.
That said, in searching for various bits [...]