Posted on January 30th, 2009 by Kyle
Live Blogging is exactly what it sounds like. When a blogger simultaneously blogs about events as they occur in almost real-time. Most notably this occurs at sporting events, music festivals, conferences, and most recently, political events. Today I venture my first attempt at live blogging, a phone call with the California Student Aid Commission.
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Posted on January 26th, 2009 by Kyle
Radiohead: Karma Police
So my roommate and I are playing another 30 minute coffee-shop gig in just over a week and we are not ready. Part of the problem is that we hardly ever see each other. I’ve got a busy enough schedule that keeps me out many nights, and he’s got a girlfriend, so [...]
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Posted on January 23rd, 2009 by Kyle
So what you probably already knew was that this past Tuesday, Barack Obama became the 44th President of the United States, not after his Oath of Office, but at precisely noon, that is, during the music played by a string quartet immediately preceding the Oath.
What you may not know is that the String Quartet, [...]
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Posted on January 19th, 2009 by Kyle
Today was the third year I’ve gotten the chance to attend (and second to blog) the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Kingdom Day Parade here in Los Angeles. Although it is a very big parade, it feels very local, as it takes place just a few miles from where I live and teach. I often [...]
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Posted on January 17th, 2009 by Kyle
Finally, a three day weekend, and not a moment too soon!
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Posted on January 13th, 2009 by Kyle
Today is day two back at school.
The good news: the first two days of 2009 have brought two of the best days of class all year long! Low achieving students actually participating, working in groups, tackling difficult material (decimals), asking great questions, and the high achieving counterparts learning new and fresh math material [...]
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Posted on January 10th, 2009 by Kyle
We finally finished our week of professional development which turned out to be about 60% useful, a figure that was surprisingly high.
However, the scare of the week came on Friday afternoon when, whilst helping a colleague upload his grades to our brand new, professionally designed Johnnie Cochran school web site, I came within two [...]
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Posted on January 6th, 2009 by Kyle
I’m back at work! Professional Development has begun already and I’m back full swing into the madness that is LAUSD. Apparently nothing’s really new. Well…..maybe. Our new Superintendent Ramon Cortines is now suggesting that 2,000 new teachers may be laid off mid-year. The good news is that my own job is in no danger [...]
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Posted on January 3rd, 2009 by Kyle
So after a nice hiatus, I’m back to blogging. Yet the year did not start out on such a great note as this morning I became part of a scary statistic. According to some estimates, 2000 people accidentally put their cell phone through the washing machine every day. I’ve now become one of those [...]
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