The Student Becomes the Teacher

Posted by Ben , 21 June 2011 9:52 PM

Tonight was my first job as a certified substitute teacher for the Adult Education program of our local school district. That's right: I am now a substitute teacher for the state of Missouri.
Until tonight, I never realized how absolutely insane it is to drop a random substitute into a random class and somehow expect a normal educational expereince to be the result.
Let me give some background first...

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New Design, New Content

Posted by Ben , 18 June 2011 9:50 AM

I recently came across this very pointed cartoon on the news website CSMonitor.com. (click on it to read it in larger format). Aside from the current events references to former congressman Weiner and the struggles for independence in the Mid East, I was left to wonder how much we are living underneath our capabilities, merely because we use powerful technology to simply entertain or, worse, waste time. The ability to connect with ideas, people, and cultures around the entire globe is phenomenal. Are we taking advantage of that? And if we are, what are we doing with it?

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Where Are They Now?

Posted by Ben , 06 June 2011 9:01 PM

We know we have been very delinquent when it comes to updating our blog. Hopefully all that is going to change. As you may have noticed, we've gotten a bit of a makeover in our little corner of the blogosphere. Just the first of many awesome things to come.

Now for some updates...

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Hello from Iceland!

Posted by Melina , 05 January 2011 9:35 AM

Ben and I are in the capital city of Reykjavik, Iceland celebrating the New Year. We got here on December 29th, and we’re heading back to the States today, January 3rd. Since we arrived here, it has been one awesome adventure after another. We love it!

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Making Up for Lost Time

Posted by Melina , 13 October 2010 10:16 PM

So, it’s been a while since we’ve updated our blog. Sorry for the long blackout. I’ll skip over the details for most things, and just give some highlights of our past year, along with plenty of photos, of course!

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