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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 15, 2013 -> 02:53 PM) http://www.snopes.com/history/american/lincoln-kennedy.asp I love their explainations. I did question at first the both on Friday being 1-7 but once I set up the scenario that Lincoln was shot on a Friday there are only seven possibilities for any other day.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jan 15, 2013 -> 03:50 PM) Soxtalk has how many members?? Let's all pool 10 bucks and buy this sonofab****. IF there ever is a Cub WS ring, it would be fun to buy it and slowly melt it down. Cub fans "Nooooooooooooo! my preciouuuuuuuuse!!" bahahaha

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 14, 2013 -> 01:09 PM) I love truly unique pieces for my collection. I've got a section of blue prints from the new ballpark, plus a newspaper article from 1909 all about the "new" Comiskey Park being built. The one thing I really want to add is a White Sox stock certificate. Something like this would be the topper by far. Cool. I'd place a few other items ahead of the ring that might be in the same price range. A WS Game winning worn jersey from a starter would probably be tops on my list. Perhaps AJ, Konerko, or Jenks (framed with the final out picture). Would $25k buy that?

I think he was a patsy for someone or some group but was the lone killer. I am planning on taking a course this fall "Did the Beats Kill Kennedy". A favorite professor has a book coming out that is pretty cool about the subject.

I will be running through a couple different scenarios. It seems from early information that my better half and I can at any time start claiming married and filing a joint return even though we have not had a legal ceremony. (waiting until any couple has the same opportunity). It would also pave the way for full health insurance benefits through my work. We're taking a look. So romantic this way. In the great state of Texas if you tell people you are married, live as a "married" couple, you are considered married. Add a joint return and the rest of the world seems to also.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 15, 2013 -> 03:11 PM) I was just talking to my wife last night about how the Common Core standards are attempting to make the students much more accountable for out-of-the-classroom preparation, or at least that's how I understood what she was saying. Common Core is one of the events and resources that came together at the right time to add momentum to this idea. It makes it easier with so many teachers being able to share lessons that are spot on state standards. If you don't understand this explaination, go to teachertube / youtube etc and find a presentation that does make sense to you.

I don't think there is a way to really help students that do not come prepared.

This is also excellent for students that are absent, for reviewing, or tutoring. And teachers don't really need to produce all the videos. There are already so many great videos available. Other issues it addresses are the "teacher going to fast / too slow. Giving the student access to the pause / rewind / play buttons they can pace themselves.

You always have issues with students not doing homework. If currently 25% of your students are not doing their 20 math problems (for example) each night, will that number increase of decrease when the homework becomes watching a 20 minute video? Most students will gladly trade 25 math problems for a 15-20 minute video. The teacher will check their notes from the video as "proof" that they watched the video. In a science classroom (where this really took off) if the student did not watch the video they would be sent to a computer and they would watch it then. Of course they would be excluded from the experiment that was going on. In a math class, don't watch the video and you will be watching it at school and doing the problems that night at home. Most students quickly learn it is less painful to watch at night and do the "work" with a teacher close by. From a classroom management perspective those minutes trying to keep kids engaged to a lecture are he most difficult. So 15 minutes of content take 25 or more minutes to deliver. Ideally the teacher will have a unit's worth of videos ready. The easiest way to deliver them is via the internet on either a video sharing site like youtube or teachertube (check there are already 1000s uploaded). We use Moodle, a Blackboard or WebCt type environment. We could also download the vids to a student's device (phone, iPod, tablet, etc) finally burning DVDs is the last resort but will capture the rest of the students. There is the option to watch them in the library before and after school. Most of the time the best time for the teacher to be around is when the student is using the new knowledge.

Last month I attended a workshop on the flipped classroom concept and have been busy converting my classes. The hardest part so far is learning to produce quality screencasts with decent video. Basically the idea is delivering new content via video as homework and then the students work on what was homework, in class. Using Bloom's Taxonomy it would be having the student working on the lowest levels, comprehension and knowledge at home and the higher levels, synthesis and evaluating in school. I was using the free trial of Camtasia to record video and audio together with a PowerPoint presentation. The software is nice but not $300 nice. Then it seems to drop to freeware that is a struggle to get working correctly. I know we have a couple educators here and perhaps a video person or two. And as a student what do you think? Any thoughts?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 14, 2013 -> 08:20 PM) Any of them. I agree with you. If I ranked them it would be Carter, Dubya, Clinton, and Sr.

Where I thought Marty was going, but didn't was, making the playoffs increases attendance, missing decreases attendance, it doesn't matter what marketing calls the current strategy. That I can agree with. And somewhere someone mentioned rebuilding is rarely a one step process. It seems like its building and building and building until a little luck and some great moves all collide at the right moment.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 8, 2013 -> 08:25 PM) Vandelay's work was much better imo

April 15th is closer than you think.

Looking at the Frank HoF thread and the Konerko hitting 34 to pass Frank on the All-Time Sox HR list and wondering . . . Remember, Frank would have to play the field or pitch hit.

QUOTE (Brian26 @ Jan 13, 2013 -> 02:54 PM) I'm not disagreeing with you, but Glavine's career happened to coincide with an Atlanta Braves' run where they were the best team in baseball cumulatively over a 12-year period. If Glavine isn't pitching on the Braves for those years, he has many fewer wins and probably never would have reached 300. True. But we run into the chicken and egg debate. Are teams with future hall of fame players more likely to win a lot of games?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 14, 2013 -> 09:16 AM) I wish I had a spare $25k. I was thinking the same thing, although I'm not certain with $25k to blow if I would pick a ring.

i wonder if you can be such an average pitcher and rack up 300 wins, why more non hall of fame pitchers haven't managed to do that? It seems pretty easy. Just look at the list of average players with similar stats. You'd think a few more of them would have over at least 200 wins.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 9, 2013 -> 01:43 PM) I think voters wanting to make a point will make Thomas a 90%+ first ballot guy. He seems to be the representative of the "he did it the right way, clean" crowd. Agreed. The sad thing will be if they also do an about face on any of the guys that were passed this year. I'd dislike seeing him go in alongside Sosa or Bonds. I would see some writers making certain Frank enters ahead of those guys. I just realized he's about the first player I really have cared about being in the Hall.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 12, 2013 -> 08:36 PM) Does it really matter whose it is? A WS ring is a WS ring. I wouldn't care if it was a beer vendor's ring. It would to a collector. Would you rather have a beer vendors ring or Konerko's ring?

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QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 6, 2013 -> 07:03 AM) Cheers my friend. She was born on Friday and is sleeping right next to me at the hospital right now. Life is good. Congratulations!

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Jan 3, 2013 -> 05:48 PM) I absolutely agree that people should be able to put things down for 15 minutes, but that's not the point. If the FAA said everyone should have to sit still with their eyes closed the entire flight for the safety of the plane, does that make it OK? Or would you question it because it doesn't make sense, and want a reason for it? If it was THAT big of a deal, as someone mentioned, they'd go around and turn them all off, confiscate them, or not let them on the plane at all. I'm pretty sure plenty of people stop using their device, but just throw it in the pocket in front of them, etc. I believe a better example would be if they told you that you could not take nail files, water bottles, shampoo, shaving cream, or 1/8" or longer pen knife blades would you question it? Would you question it is they they asked you to take your shoes off before boarding the plan, stuff like that. If the FAA said that a terrorist could bring down the plane with an iPad, we'd give them up from takeoff to landing. Silly isn't it? We easily accept greater restrictions to possibly prevent a random act of human horror, but fight much smaller restrictions that might prevent a random act of electronic malfunction.

read less and watch more reality TV so I can relate to my literature students.