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Wishing you a fantastic birthday today and a super year ahead! Happy Birthday!
by Barb S. hs/ret
Jan 13, 2017
<h3><font color=navy blue>Winter is not a season; it is an occupation.
<i>~ Sinclair Lewis</i></h3></font>
by Alison/Aus
Jan 13, 2017
Many many moons ago, WAG was a regular here on Tnet. Teachers had their classes graphing the results from around the world and it was always an interesting read.
Now, I'm not for one moment suggesting that it become a thing again, but I couldn't think of a better heading for my post than that.
Today, we had 45 degrees ... Celciu...See MoreMany many moons ago, WAG was a regular here on Tnet. Teachers had their classes graphing the results from around the world and it was always an interesting read.
Now, I'm not for one moment suggesting that it become a thing again, but I couldn't think of a better heading for my post than that.
Today, we had 45 degrees ... Celcius. That's 113F. It's evening here and 10 minutes ago, at 7:30pm, it was still 40.9 and felt like 41.8.
Surprisingly, my house has held up extremely well under the onslaught, which follows a similar but smaller one just two days ago. The cooler day in the middle gave the house a chance to cool down. It won't have the same chance tonight as it won't get below 26 (that's not much under 80F) and we could be in for a broken night's sleep.
Cooler tomorrow, only 38, so that's 100F - positively fresh compared to today. ;-D I'll do my 5km run in the morning and be in the cool before it heats up too much.
Our school year starts in just two weeks time. Normally February has some hotter days that January. Hopefully that won't be the case this year.
Have fun everybody.
Hi, all!
Bev and Babs: egarding pedometer readings, I think my pedometer probably is not spot-on accurate, but close enough for me. I'm short with short legs (sadly), so a mile takes about 2,400 steps. So when you see my bigger numbers, you don't have to be as impressed! ;) Someone with a longer stride would record less steps for the same...See MoreHi, all!
Bev and Babs: egarding pedometer readings, I think my pedometer probably is not spot-on accurate, but close enough for me. I'm short with short legs (sadly), so a mile takes about 2,400 steps. So when you see my bigger numbers, you don't have to be as impressed! ;) Someone with a longer stride would record less steps for the same mileage.
I'm sorry I haven't been reporting in, but I have not had much to announce, unfortunately. We've been having rainy days here and once again I just have not found the motivation to do some indoor exercising as an alternative. However, by just writing this now I felt like I must do SOMETHING, so I searched online and followed along to a 30-minute low-impact cardio workout. It was a beginner one by Body Project. Not overly hard for someone out of shape like me. Felt good.
I applaud those of you who have braved the weather to keep up your routines. I notice that by not exercising, my body has been feeling more achy. That's a reason right there on why keeping up the exercise is important. It keeps the body "oiled" and working, ha!
Keep up the good work!
Hi. I just recently retuned to teaching after taking off two years to be a family caregiver. I was hired as the second teacher (assistant teacher) in a private pre-school. The lead teacher is teaching her first year as a pre-k lead teacher. She made a point the first five minutes of meeting me to ask if I had my teaching credential, which I do and ...See MoreHi. I just recently retuned to teaching after taking off two years to be a family caregiver. I was hired as the second teacher (assistant teacher) in a private pre-school. The lead teacher is teaching her first year as a pre-k lead teacher. She made a point the first five minutes of meeting me to ask if I had my teaching credential, which I do and also have 12 years experience in my own classroom, 9 of which in kindergarten. Since then she has sown played and undermined my role in every way. The latest slight came over the holidays after the director had asked her to change her lunch schedule in order that I lead the students in a lesson before lunch. This was going very well, but the lead teacher was tremendously unhappy with me being a lead in any way. She redid the classroom schedule over break and used other teacher's names on the schedule but for my duties she only typed "assistant". This is just her latest example of undermining. I am really troubled by this as I have never worked with a colleague who was uninterested in collaborating and learning to become a better educator. She really struggles in the classroom. I could go into a lot of detail about what I have observed, but basically it is all teacher lead instruction of four year olds. I modeled a lesson on the spot one day for the class after she bombed a lesson on "how did you get to school today?" I read the story and we discussed the different modes of transport and I gave each child a post-it note to place on chart so they could show how they got to school. The lesson was a big success, but instead of being happy about this, the other teacher sneered at me and walked out, no discussion, nothing. I need a little help and guidance to understand what is going on and so I don't feel crazy and unvalidated. Thanks for reading and answering this discussion!
by Martin Melhus
Jan 12, 2017
Greetings,
I'm a college professor in physics, and I'm reworking my classroom sessions for Introductory Calculus Based Physics. In the past, I've used LaTeX output to .pdf files, displayed as slides, but I want to move away from that, and have the students review the lecture notes outside of class.
I'd like to add audio and simple...See MoreGreetings,
I'm a college professor in physics, and I'm reworking my classroom sessions for Introductory Calculus Based Physics. In the past, I've used LaTeX output to .pdf files, displayed as slides, but I want to move away from that, and have the students review the lecture notes outside of class.
I'd like to add audio and simple animations to the slides, and present them in an easy format that the students can download to a phone, tablet, or PC, and I'm looking for good software to create those files.
I tried to use Adobe Reader, but it would insert a speaker button that if activated, would play the sound. And when I opened the saved file on my mac using preview, the sound button wasn't there.
Any suggestions as to what to look at? I'd prefer something free, or at least with a demo period, so I can try before I spend money on something.
Regards, Martin
by Barb S. hs/ret
Jan 12, 2017
<h3><font color=magenta>We had only one simple rule in our home: Live harmlessly.
<i>~ Sally Browne</i></h3></font>
Babs, the pedometer is not working right! Today I was using the manual(?) treadmill, saw the steps were not moving, started counting and quit at 50, put my hand down from the handles and 10 steps were added on!! Walking the hall, I counted 100 steps and the ped. said 84! Hmmm.....
Tonight I see 8389 steps accounted for. Maybe I have to pum...See MoreBabs, the pedometer is not working right! Today I was using the manual(?) treadmill, saw the steps were not moving, started counting and quit at 50, put my hand down from the handles and 10 steps were added on!! Walking the hall, I counted 100 steps and the ped. said 84! Hmmm.....
Tonight I see 8389 steps accounted for. Maybe I have to pump my arms when walking to get the count up!!lol
Snow/rain tonight. Another nasty day, tomorrow. Schools were closed today, due to the icy back roads.
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