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Anchorage is not all it has cracked up to be, I find myself losing focus (not doing what I should be doing). I have started this online course (Intro to Teaching In Alaska) and I has hoped to catch up with the course. N…
Good Xanga is back in Business again.On Being on Vacation. (or on being and nothingness)I am on vacation and I feel like I need to go back to work to get some rest.....it wears me out to be running around doing things.I …
Teaching When I want to teach somebody something I first want to find out a bit about the person and I want them to know a bit about me. I used to learn best when I was comfortable and when I trusted my teacher. As a t…
LearningOne of the things that is fascinating is the differences in how people learn. Having been a student and then a teacher, back to being a student again, has convinced me that there are as many different learning s…
Profile of Mountain Village Mountain Village is located on the north bank of the Yukon River in Western Alaska, about 60 miles from where the yukon flows into the Bering Sea. It is 450 air miles from Anchorage and 25 mi…
So I went and saw Lord of the Rings...it was OK, not really my thing. The special effects were good, the storyline was interesting.....I guess I fell for the hype, forgetting that I am not into that type of movie (the sc…
Teaching in Rural Alaska Teaching in general can be very challenging and rewarding. I am on Xmas break now, it has been a quick six months since I traveled out to Mountain Village to begin my career as a teacher in Alask…
I teach because I want to share with the world what I have experienced.I teach in Alaska because I chose to get away from the lower 48 ( and its materialism and hypocrisy)I am taking this course called Intro to Teaching …
This is an old entry that i would like to add to my current site.I am taking that course Intro to Teaching in Alaska. I have written extensively on the topic on Xanga.I need to make an archival section, but do not quite …
I am at the Spenard Hostel in Anchorage. It is very dark and very cold in Anchorage. Dental in the morning at 800 am. I need to get a few filings. Writing is something I need to do at this time in my life. I find that …
what a novel idea....using Xanga as a rough draft for future publication.Congratulations to Prometheus on getting his work published. I am trying to get a signed copy of "The Breast Book" by Xanga's very own Prometheus.W…
Xmas Entry 2Well Back at the University. It is so nice to use this high speed Internet (for free) at UAA (Anchorage) I have Internet in the classroom out in Mountain Village, but it is so slow sometime.I am more apt to w…
Xams Break Entery #1I made it to Anchorage, having left Mountain Village this morning and flying to St. Mary's and then on to Anchorage.Very nice to be on break and relax a bit.I am at the University now sending a few …
To Do List For my Anchorage Break1) write up lessons plans for the sub.2) go to school one more day.3) do some work on the Xmas Program.4) Call Gateway.5) get my computer ready to go.6) call Shawn about an aiport pickup.…
Sunday in Mountian Village and all is quiet (and cold, dark)But on Tuesday I get to go to Anchorage for some R and R.I accepted the Lead Teacher position. I am not sure how it will go, but it will look good a the resume.…
I am to tired to write and I think I will just go home and do some reading while I fall asleep.A few more days until I go on Xmas break....I need to relax in a hot tubjust to get away...to numb to think.
I am to tired to write and I think I will just go home and do some reading while I fall asleep.A few more days until I go on Xmas break....I need to relax in a hot tubjust to get away...to numb to think.
I am to tired to write and I think I will just go home and do some reading while I fall asleep.A few more days until I go on Xmas break....I need to relax in a hot tubjust to get away...to numb to think.
THE LEAD TEACHERIn Alaska, more particularly in rural Alaska you have what is called a lead teacher position (instead of a vice principal). The lead teacher fills in for the principal if he/she is gone.Here in Mountain V…
Life is what happnes to me while I am busy making other plans.Eat, Drink, and be Merry- for tommorow you shall die.
I am just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round...I just had to let it go.MB
It is Saturday in Moutain Village, Alaska. Very cold (about -15 with a little wind) It is nice a nice blue sky out now- in contrast to the nearly 20 hours of darkness or near darkness....we will continue to lose about 6 …
Well It is Friday and another wek is behind me. It went fast and so will the weekend.I have some serious house cleaning to do tonight as I have been living in a pigpen for the week, just tossing things and not picking up…
vacation and dentalxmas vacation is supposed to start on the 21st of December after school.well that is all fine and good until I realized that I needed to see a dentist....so I started to call around Anchorage and see w…
When in Mountain Village do as the Eskimos doMB
On Hate....sometimes I think I must be the world's worst teacher.....but I know that there will be days when I am up and days when I am down.Self doubt is a big part of taeching....a person needs to conquer their own fea…
Essays- yes the yare often in the firts person and I rarely go back and edit my Xanga material, but essays for me are like a trial- a test to see what I know, to see if I know what I thought I knew.We all think things ab…
it was all I could do to keep from cracking up...my absess tooth was driving me crazy.....I was growing impatiant with my students (forgetting they were students) and I thought to myself "Mark you will need to relax or y…
Congratulations to Prometheus who is finally getting published with a little help from the folks at Xanga (writers on Xanga) not the corporate folks.It is like a dream....I hope to publish something, someday,...I believe…
December-is going to be a long, dark, cold month.may be a time of rebirth and renewal.a time for me to reflect.the end and well as a beginning.a time to give, and be thankful and spend time with family.a time to look bac…
It is 1130 and I am in my classroom trying to contemplate the meaning of life.Is it just a matter of being born...living a short and sometimes painful life and then dying.Is that it?When we die is our existence after dea…
240Well I think I did a bad thing. I mentioned that I was the Site Technology person here in Mountain Village. In that capacity I have been given several privileges and upgraded access.One thing I had access to was the d…