It’s now day five of the 20-day blogging challenge, which, if you are late to the party, FYI is an idea of Kelly Hines to blog 20 days in a month on topics related to teaching. “Share any tips for designing/ grading/ giving assessments.” I have two really good ideas for assessment, one of which…
For me, being a woman in technology is like the ending of the Lilo and Stitch movie where he says Es mi familia. Es chica y rota pero es buena, es muy buena. (This is my family. It’s small and broken but it’s good. It’s very good. – The person who quoted this saw it…
Amazingly, given my current schedule, I have made it to Day 4 of the 20-day blogging challenge. This was the brain child of Kelly Hines as a way to get herself to blog more regularly. Today’s prompt was : Share a topic/ idea from class this week. What’s one thing you did with students this…
The question for Day 3 is : “What is a website that you cannot live without? Tell about your favorite features and how you use it in your teaching and learning.” The first part is easy. Oh my God, I love, love, LOVE stackoverflow, a site where all of your programming questions are answered. It’s free…
Today I’m on day two of the 20-day blogging challenge, the brain child of Kelly Hines and a great way to find new, interesting bloggers. The second day prompt was to share an organizational tip from your classroom, one thing that works for you. The latest tool I’ve been using is livebinders . Remember when…
I came across this really interesting post on the 20-Day Blogging Challenge for teachers. I’m not sure how likely I am to be able to finish it in January since it is already the sixth and January is a really busy month for me, but we will see. The first prompt is “Tell about a…
This isn’t the first year that I’ve resolved to be the same, so even my resolving to stay the same is staying the same. I noticed I’ve gotten a lot better with javascript over the last couple of years, a little better with PHP and SQL. My resolution is to keep doing that. As with…
This post is a public service to these people who tell me that they are going to write a blog and make money “from the advertising revenue”. In short, it’s a bad idea. Perhaps you have amazing things to say and you will be one of the tiny, tiny fraction of bloggers who make a…
Perhaps people wouldn’t be so hesitant to change careers during mid-life if they paid a little bit more attention to start-ups. Having been in start-up mode for the past few years, I’ve read numerous articles with titles like, “Five things you should know about start-ups” “Eleven reasons start-ups fail” “Six keys to start-up success” “Nine…
Since it’s the weekend – and if you read this blog very often you know I don’t really do weekends but I’m stuck on a plane with no wifi and the wordpress app, so it’s time for Mama AnnMaria’s Advice on Life. Try to control your excitement. Learn how! I mean it. I don’t know…