Desktop Learning Adventures

Picture, if you will, that scene in You've Got Mail  where Tom Hanks' character, Joe, is pacing back and forth past the door to the room where his computer screen is silently admonishing him for avoiding writing his response to Kathleen.  He knows he's got to answer, but the words just aren't there yet. One might say he's frozen in thought... Well, the Deep Freeze is where my ideas have been sleeping for the last couple of months.  I'd walk past the room where my computer silently slept.  (I didn't make the mistake of turning it on...)  Evidently, I was perfectly fine recharging my creative battery.  (Actually, I was fine after I gave myself permission to be fine with it. Before that, I was feeling guilty doing nothing at all. ) I'm happy to say, my focus has finally returned!  (Whew! It's about time.) I'd like to introduce you to the first thing I've chipped out of that block of ice called brain rest. When I was in the classroom, ...

Kim I know I still have a home-made 8-track tape somewhere, but I couldn't find it. However, I have a gazillion cassette tapes. Once again, I'm hooking up with the  Math Is Real Life blog hop. And today, at the risk of aging myself, I'm going to take a walk down memory lane. As I was curling my hair the other morning and rocking out to Journey, I looked down at my iPad and noticed I have 16,127 minutes of music stored. My first thought- I wonder how many hours and then days of music I had. That reminded me of my pre-iTunes days, when we listened to albums and I would make mixes on 8-tracks and later, cassettes. One of the things that annoyed me on 8-tracks or cassettes was when I bought a tape and they would split a song from one side to the other. That was just not  acceptable!  So, of course, I had to make sure that any tape I made (1) would use the maximum amount of music I could squeeze in per side  and (2) would NEVER cut a song in half!  This...