Monthly Archives: February, 2012

Weekly Wrap-Up #3

I’m two days’ behind.  Had to address other matters, as my two most recent posts indicate. In any event, last week was my first full week at school, following a four-day convalescence at home due to a muscle spasm in my neck and upper back, with referred pain in my right shoulder.  I have completed [...]

Having Our Hands on the Right Things

The following is a reply I posted on the now-defunct MFL blog.  Due to a lot of flap, the blog has since been taken down.  Thus, I am glad I preserved my comments. I don’t think that Mr. Picardo espouses a die-hard tech-only point-of-view.  We tweet from time to time. I am also an occasional [...]

It Depends On How One Views the Situation

or…a teachable (anti-racist) moment for teachers. I’ve recently become a fan of a teacher blog, whose target audience is language teachers.  I enjoy most of their posts and ideas.  But, the one promoting a Mexican Lotería app isn’t one of my favorites.  The reason?  Some of the game board images are stereotypical, even downright racist. [...]

Weekly Wrap Up #2

Before the clock strikes midnight, and before I fall asleep on the living room sofa, I figured I had better write my post. This time last week, I was in the early stages of what was diagnosed two days later by my primary care physician as a muscle spasm. Its greatest impact was to the [...]

Weekly Wrap-Up

I’m introducing a new feature to my blog.  It is called, “Weekly Wrap-Up”, and includes some of the exciting things that went on in my classes during the week. So, first up – online textbook. Not a new form of technology, online textbooks have been around for some time. My place of employ, however, has [...]

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