Mark counts by tens!

As we relaxed around the house tonight.  Holly and Mark got ready for the annual 100th day of school celebration that the Kindergarten holds every year.  Before we knew it, Mark was sitting there counting by tens.
Check it out.

My Class notes are online again! Yipee!

I guess Ken fixed my web-site a few weeks back, because the web-site he gave me a few years ago is working again!  the web page, in Internet explorer 7 anyway, looks almost exactly like the pages in OneNote that I write in class.  I host my notes and my old wedding album samples there.
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Obama wins.

Whether you’re for him or against him.  It looks like Obama is going to win.  This is my first glimpse of the results, after coming to school to grade some tests.
 
Here’s the Fox news headline…

Notes are online…

My MS OneNote 2007 Class Notes are online!
I’m so excited about it, I can NOT believe it.
One of my goals for technology in my classroom this year was to get my class notes and assignments all online on a daily basis for my classroom.  For me, this was a big goal, because math text is [...]

Here’s a picture of the Tablet PC LE1600

I like using MS Office’s OneNote to write, store, and organize my notes in class.
Here’s a screen shot of the program.

You can probably just barely see the colored tabs across the top that say Algebra II, Pre-Algebra, Algebra I, Geometry, 5th Algebra I, Bus. Math, and Adv. Math, but those are the tabs for [...]

The TABLET is in!

And it’s better than I thought it would be.
Well, last Tuesday, I got the Motion Computing LE1600 in the mail  and started to learn how to use it.  I tried the two main tablet applications: Windows Journal, and OneNote.   I have to say that OneNote is an awesome program and that the LE1600 is a [...]

Tablet hasn’t arrived yet…

I contacted him and here’s what he said.
I wrote an email to the dude that sold me the Motion Computing LE1600 and he said he was very, very sorry.  He’d had a family emergency and just wasn’t thinking straight.  Here’s what he said, “I only use the post office for my junk-mail and first class [...]

I ordered a Tablet PC!

Well, Actually, I won an auction for a used Motion Computing LE1600, Centrino.
When I was at the ASTE 2008 Conference, I attended a session by Mike Truskovsky from GoldenView Middle School in Anchorage and was astounded at the ease with which he was able to lecture, and demonstrate Algebra I skills using his wireless [...]

Two, Four, Six, Eight,…

Dude(tte).  Mark is learning to skip count!
Holly and I were rehashing the week, the day, our lives, etc: you know what couples do on the weekends when they get back together after some time apart, realigning their life stories so they stay on the same page when we were interrupted:
Luke yelled out from the [...]

Negative Numbers

We’ve been teaching Mark the set of Natural Numbers, as I suppose parents do the world over.  And, like parents do the world over, I tend to thing that my children are a bit above average when it comes to thinking.
The other day, I thought it’d be cool to ask him questions about the relative [...]