Posted by: adriengleason on: April 21, 2008
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Another of John and Adrien’s inane conversations lead to a discussion of the word Mercurial (meaning swiftly changing). I assumed it was from the Roman Messanger God, who flew quickly with the aid of his winged sandals, John figured it was based on the fluidity of ‘QUICK SILVER’ (the element). With the aid of this [...]
Posted by: bulljohn on: April 10, 2008
Thought it would be a neat idea for students to be able to make their own short little comic newspaper style strips. As a former Social Studies teacher, I of course was thinking of the political satire aspects, but I’m sure any issue would be fine. I stumbled across this website which is somewhat limited [...]
Posted by: bulljohn on: April 10, 2008
So I was on the phone with a colleague the other day and we used the phrase “There is more than one way to skin a cat”. If one way wasn’t enough there apparently are several others. We got talking about this and several other strange phrases and what possible meaning there was in them. [...]
Posted by: bulljohn on: April 9, 2008
This website allows students/teachers to setup a free account and keep track of their sources for a research project. Works cited lists can be saved and sources added to them at any time, once completed the sources can be exported to word in APA, MLA and other styles. This website eliminates the tedium of teaching [...]
