The Coffee House

[snowbear114 46]

I use paper and pencil/pen/sharpie marker whatever constantly, even at school.

I do most of my teaching with a document camera, standard copy paper, and sharpies. It isn't that I don't know how to use the technology I have (promethean board), but I can face my students when I'm using the document camera, and it feels more personal for them to see me write/model in a notebook, especially because that's what they'll do when I'm done teaching.

I tried using OneNote for meeting notes...just didn't work for me. I have a notebook that has notes from all of my meetings this year, and I find everything in it so much easier than I did in OneNote.

In one of the professional (1-week) classes I took, the instructor commented that he was holding a class that included some people whom were deaf. If he turned to face the board while he was still talking, the lip-readers would throw stuff at him. He learned quickly.

 

[snowbear114 46]

A little snow to our south, this morning. We are expecting an inch, or so, beginning late tonight or in the morning. It was 21* when we left this morning.

 

[Gary A.]

I use paper and pencil/pen/sharpie marker whatever constantly, even at school.

I do most of my teaching with a document camera, standard copy paper, and sharpies. It isn't that I don't know how to use the technology I have (promethean board), but I can face my students when I'm using the document camera, and it feels more personal for them to see me write/model in a notebook, especially because that's what they'll do when I'm done teaching.

I tried using OneNote for meeting notes...just didn't work for me. I have a notebook that has notes from all of my meetings this year, and I find everything in it so much easier than I did in OneNote.

Gary finds it a bit difficult to take notes electronically. Gary much prefers using a Reporter's Notebook and pen. Gary could never give dictation or handwrite a final product ... for that a keyboard is required. Funny how the brain likes a set routine to function optimally ... (with Gary's cream cheese of a brain, optimally functioning is required just to keep from bumping into stuff ... a complete sentence with a semblance of coherency is tough).

 

[smoke665]

Gary doesn't know about spirited debates. They seemed pretty much and overwhelmingly one sided.

Considering the side you favor I might have to agreee

 

[smoke665]

As my handwriting has gotten worse over the years due to nerve damage, I've had to switch more to the computer for notes and written correspondence. Plus I've gotten lazy with spell check LOL Funny the same shakiness in the hands, causes problems on detailed drawing using a mouse or pen on the computer, but if I'm on the board where I can rest my hands on the drafting machine and the articulated head and board, I have no problems.

 

[Gary A.]

Gary doesn't know about spirited debates. They seemed pretty much and overwhelmingly one sided.

Considering the side you favor I might have to agreee

Hence ... the common ground.

 

[davidharmier60]

Dave got 10.5 or 11 minutes under 5 hours.
Post office and then home.
And BTW Dave had biscuits and sausage gravy that Brenda made at work.
Not as good as Sisters but any port in a storm....

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[JonA_CT]

I use paper and pencil/pen/sharpie marker whatever constantly, even at school.

I do most of my teaching with a document camera, standard copy paper, and sharpies. It isn't that I don't know how to use the technology I have (promethean board), but I can face my students when I'm using the document camera, and it feels more personal for them to see me write/model in a notebook, especially because that's what they'll do when I'm done teaching.

I tried using OneNote for meeting notes...just didn't work for me. I have a notebook that has notes from all of my meetings this year, and I find everything in it so much easier than I did in OneNote.

Gary finds it a bit difficult to take notes electronically. Gary much prefers using a Reporter's Notebook and pen. Gary could never give dictation or handwrite a final product ... for that a keyboard is required. Funny how the brain likes a set routine to function optimally ... (with Gary's cream cheese of a brain, optimally functioning is required just to keep from bumping into stuff ... a complete sentence with a semblance of coherency is tough).

Yeah, I agree with that. I find I'm much more successful at drafting without the computer/keyboard. The vast majority of my work ends up digitized in one way or another because I either type or scan it into Google Classroom for my students to have wherever they are.

Kids hate writing. Actually, I hated writing when I was their age, and it didn't matter what type. My students don't write a single thing that I'm not writing with them, and I find that they are much more engaged and interested in the process as a result. My 8th graders just finished a 6/7 week unit where they developed and published social issue narratives, and some of them are close to 20 pages long (even my example, which really is a tool to show them ALL of the techniques, not necessarily a final, published piece, is 12 pages long). Even my struggling writers ended up in the 7-10 page range and shocked themselves. Before I celebrated the process with them, it never would have happened that way.

I do have literally 400 pages of stories to read through and grade now, though.

(And no...I haven't even looked at them yet...)

 

[Gary A.]

Gary doesn't know about spirited debates. They seemed pretty much and overwhelmingly one sided.

Considering the side you favor I might have to agreee

(Yes, the winning side. )

 

[davidharmier60]

Dave just saw a dog very much resembling Maggie across the parking lot. High energy too just as Gary describes.

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[Gary A.]

@snowbear: Gary's roast is still cooking away from yesterday, according to my phone app, 04:39:45 to go.

 

[smoke665]

Yes, the winning side. )

And we're off to table again!!! LOL I have this strange feeling that arguing with you is like wrestling a pig in the mud, sooner or later you realize we both enjoy it!

 

[snowbear114 46]

20 minutes to go, then lunch with the ladies (tagging along with MLW's lunch with the other Admin. Aides in Fire/EMS), then to get new tires for the car. We'll be looking at vacuum food savers while tire shop does their thing.

 

[Dean_Gretsch]

Yes, the winning side. )

And we're off to table again!!! LOL I have this strange feeling that arguing with you is like wrestling a pig in the mud, sooner or later you realize we both enjoy it!

I think Gary channels his feminine side when it comes to arguments. We all know you can't win one with a lady.

 

[Gary A.]

FYI