Blackboard Notes

I'm all about showing students how to do things.  Lately I realized that students want to know if I made it (searching for relevancy). When pressed I usually show them this one. It's of my first resource websites I built in grad school. See, I'm old enough to pay homage to the old school blackboard, but yet try to keep resources people can use.  I started the makings of a intermediate algebra curriculum, but that has gone on hold for now. What I really need to do is reclaim my old website look and feel from when I did tutoirng online.  Before I lost my domain to Melbourne IT (I was not going to pay their $500+ maintenance fees), I had the darn site backed up with all of its pages, with one problem. I no longer had a hosting module or website editor that I could redo these pages to post them back on a server and rekindle the website. I lost some of the embedded pictures, but it looks something like this: It may have become inactive, but I think I may use a free doma

   Let's face it. It's summer. No one wants to think about a class of 15-35 students who may or may not be excited about your class. So what's your passion? Is it cleaning the cobs? But that's exactly  what you do when something in your house hasn't been used in ages. What's the point? I recently did a clean house project where I recycled the wood from my basement storage and turned it into shelving throughout the house. Why did I do it? I'd like to have an extra study away from the crowd. What you see is a reconstruction of that shelf at half the width and 2/3 the length.  On Facebook I called it my lean manufacturing skills put to use. I like to build! I like to repurpose!   A contractor said it right when he told me it's more work to DIY as opposed to geting new. I'm not an Earth Day conservationist. But it taught me I can do it in small pieces. It gives me something to talk about when I bring up measurement, planning, and error. Can you imagine t