Even if you don’t like rap and hip-hop, give this post a chance. I know Jose has quoted Jay-Z and met Rakim, Dan‘s spotlighted a homemade Jay-Z poster, and Taylor loves Eminem and Ice Cube; I’m counting on you (& similar-minded folks) to help me out here and in the…
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Follow For Now
Longer post on this topic to follow. For now, just click to listen: 20-divide-kreate-illiterate-city.mp3 Edit: Source: “Illiterate City”, by Divide & Kreate. Best of Bootie 2007 .
A Rerun Already? (Meme Edition)
My fellow NJ educator Ann (aka NJTechTeacher) tagged me with a “Seven Random Things” meme. Unaccustomed as I am to sharing the minutiae of my personal life, I’ll respond with a re-post of my participation in a similar meme from this past summer. When I first posted this, I had…
An English Lesson for the TV Generation
I watched waaaay too much TV as a kid. As such, I’ve not only soaked up mental gigabytes of useless pop culture trivia, but also the every-5-minutes advertising that is pervasive in American television broadcasting. My first recollection of a TV commercial that really impacted me was for Murphy’s Oil…
Thoughts on Facebook?
So I’m seeing more and more folks in the edublogoblahblah are down with Facebook. I’ve been considering signing up for an account myself, but I’m wondering if, as a married man in his thirties (OK, just starting his thirties), maybe I’m too past it for Facebook. I had a MySpace…