Taylor the Teacher

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Truth #1: It’s not as hard as it seems.
Since February, I have lost 40 pounds. I still have more to go, but losing that weight has changed my life. Not in the ways I thought, though. I have […]

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Really I passed bitter a long time ago — but am up late feeling guilty & just now admitting it. Here’s the story:
I’m assigned to teach Broadcast Journalism this year, which is exciting to me, but new. My first background was in print journalism, and back in my J-school days there was rivalry […]

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I found this at passiveaggressivenotes.com

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Twitter has possibilities. I’m not sure what they are. We should play with it.What if we all did a Twitter freewrite in the next week and then posted the raw results on our blogs?
We could re-combine lines for a poem. Or think of new blog posts. Or start a discussion about something interesting. Or talk […]

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I have read some excellent posts tonight about edtech. David Warlick wrote a rant expressing his frustration that teachers don’t want to learn technology. I don’t know what his background is, but he doesn’t sound like a teacher. I honestly don’t know where he lives that teachers are “treated with awe and respect.”
He made […]

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My husband Murray was born in 1968. Even though he can’t remember anything before 1975 , he’s very adamant that he’s a child of the sixties. It gets into your molecular structure, he says.
If that’s the case, I’m a child of the sixties, too. Born in 1971. All the molecules floating through the air (that […]

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Dooce really does make it look easy. I’d always thought of her as having the ultimate carefree life. It seems like she’s always having fun.
But then I realized she’s always brushing by things like,”I took Leta to the grocery store,” or “We were picking Leta up from school,” or “I was on my way to […]

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Ken’s post, Words vs. Numbers, just says it all. It’s short enough to quote here:
224 = Today. Tomorrow. Forever.
WOMBAT = waste of money, brains, and time
WOMBAT + 224 = x
Where we hope x does not equal the current state of education.
Speaking of wastes of money, brains, and time, this memo didn’t come from […]

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UPDATE: Technorati should make a way where users can find out the average authority level that a particular blog links out to. Could be useful on both sides of the blog.
 
Eminem should use his MySpace page for a real blog. MySpace is for making connections with people, not selling CDs. Assuming this is Eminem’s […]

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The people who are dissing Blogrush (dissing! old word, but good) need to take stock of their expectations. There is no Shangri-La.
If I understand the rules of Blogrush correctly, each user will get 100 impressions each day. So, my blog’s headline is displayed on 100 different blogs, at the most, each day, assuming I have […]

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