If you guys recall, or go back to the archives, I have a new telephone which I love. Well, I got the rebate back today and so far, I’m loving that too. They sent me a Visa card with $100 on it.
So far, it looks good. I just activated it, and hope to use it. The only weird part is that if you use it to buy gas, you can’t use it at the pump — I think that’s because of how debit cards are handled at the pump.
Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Education Columnist Scott Parks
I really don’t care for this guys opinion when it comes to education. I rarely think that he gets it right.
I also don’t know what is going on at Preston Hollow right now, and in the past few years, BUT …
I teach their older siblings.
All of my classes are completely mixed. Though my AP CS is the least mixed but the sample size is smallest — 3 anglo boys and 2 hispanic girls — though one of the anglo boys has not been educated in America until recently and wants to go back to Europe to school.
I have black, hispanic and aglo students in every other class. Even my Pre AP classes are fairly well represented by each ethic group. I will say that the majority of my students are Hispanic.
I also believe that the students treat each other fairly most of the time, and that race or background rarely comes into play.
If students are being placed in classroom based on their skin color and not their proficiency that has to stop. I just don’t see it at our school.
My Christmas Website is up at http://www.kweaver.us
Several months ago, shortly after I started this blog, I had an HP Pavalion 521n die. I really liked the machine, but I started seeing an potential hard drive failure.
I tried replacing the hard drive, even ordered the orginal disks from HP and EVEN asked their tech support, but no one could give me a reason as to why the computer wouldn’t boot.
Well I had an even older motherboard/computer finally fail, something I’ve been expecting for a long time, pulled the components out of it I wanted to keep, mainly the hard drive, CD-Writer, and the DVD-Writer.
I decided to throw the working, bootable hard drive in the HP. It booted! So I finally pulled the original hard drive and I figured out why it wouldn’t work. It’s set up cable select for the slave/master drive. I haven’t seen that in years!
So it’s up and working.
I am thinking about trading the DVD-drive for the DVD writer.
I no longer feel quite the failure! And hopefully this information will help the next guy.
And why didn’t HP Tech Support tell me that!
I was reminded again how much the mispronouncing of char bothers me. I was at an AP Workshop this weekend and one of the presenters consistently makes this mistake.
I maintain that if you pronounce it as it is spelled — ‘char’ as in burned — you don’t get the concept and neither will your students.
char is short for character. It should be pronounced as an abbreviation for character, thus pronounced ‘care’, not ‘char’.
It’s like int for integer.
It automatically turns me off the speaker, because they just don’t get the concept.
At least for me. Especially if there is wifi around. I did not open my laptop while I was in houston.
Virtual earth got me there. Ereader kept my luggage weight down. I had email,gmail, and district email access 24/7.
So, I mailed in the rebate form today.
Visual Studio Express – Happy One Year Anniversary!
We have Visual Studio 2003 on our computers, and I had a spare moment today, so I took a few minutes and wrote a quick and dirty VB program, created the CAB and downloaded it to my phone. Same level of program my regular CS kids are writing and creating.
I am not sure they got how cool it is that it is THAT easy to do, hopefully they will. I’m going to show all my classes that today.
By the way, I got the idea of doing it from Alfred Thompson’s blog!
So far I like the 8125 after using it for a week.
Biggest problem … diabetes software but I still have my Treo and an Zire. The Treo still works of course and switching to it just takes moving the SIM.
Gmaps doesn’t work but Virtual Earth Mobile does.
The Internet and email works much better. Syncing is easier. Actually everything I do on a regular basis is easier on the 8125.
I have ordered a case similar to the case I have for the Treo. Silicon that takes little extra room. I have also ordered a screen protector.
I am trying the edition and it is working much better than the pocket version. At the moment I have the functionality I use on a regular basis though I am trying to decide what to do about diabetes software.
Free software is not easy to find