learnteach | Five for Friday

1. School Drama (Ick! Ptooy!) Still dodging, but some sticks.
2. nanowrimo: Moving again, 2K words. WAAAAY behind, but moving!
3. health: Bout the same, dry cough. More exercise!
4. Life is Dickens. Starting to "get" Faire a little.
5. School progress: Need to break blocks of resistance in 3 classes. Plan: Get back on track, move beyond Moles, they don't get it and I don't know how to teach it. Deceased Equinne flogging to end NOW. How could grades suck worse?

Shout-outs: M. Mayhem for Friday Five, and Old Spice erotica. Greatsword for the word war which got movement. Shuttergeek for patience. Roisnoir for addicting me to molskin (sp) journals, I don't waste money on inferior ones. http://hermeneutics.typepad.com/tragedy/ for some great story theory.
And Trader Joe's for the soup, dudes!

Evil plan #535: Buy a relatively inexpensive digital camera, tough, smallish, telephoto?? or zoom??, ability to take short videos, so I can document any situation I run into at the school. Saw a fight today, couldn't see the students closely enough--zoom would have helped. Any suggestions?

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If you're interested in teaching upper middle school, the parent participation charter school that

punkmom &

kiyowara's daughter goes to may be hiring some for next year...talk to them, (specifically punkmom), and if you've not got their #, talk to me, and I'll connect you.

Not sure if filming students is an iffy law thing. Best to check first.

in the hallways, classrooms, and common areas, no problems. It's a lot easier to hand the camera to the police than go through forms, questions, etc. The students film just about everything with camera phones, so this is a way to get my own documentation (my camera phone isn't that good, and what they're filming I'm either breaking up or calling for backup--fights, sexual misconduct, tagging (vandalism), smoking, etc.)

Pretty much all digital cameras in the past couple of years fit the bill. I'd recommend a Canon SD100. Anything in the Canon SD line is good, but that's the first of the line, so most likely to be available used (no point paying full price for something that the kids may steal or smash). 3MP, 2x zoom.

Of course, if you bought something current, it'd probably have 3x zoom, and more resolution, so that you could get a finer picture even at a distance. If you intend to take still pictures in the school, I recommend Canon over Kodak and Nikon, which have terribly weak flash.

Oh—but none of them are what I'd call "tough". I just read yesterday about a new camera from Fuji which is billed as "rugged", although you're not supposed to drop it more than two feet.

I just ordered this little guy:

http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/02/panasonic-lumix-dmc-tz1-reviewed/

It's the only little compact point-n-shoot with a 10x optical zoom. It's not overly expensive either, I think I found my for $220. I'll let you know how it is when it finally gets here. Fedex decided to ship it from New Jersey to Mass via Orlando. Someone at fedex needs to be in your geography class. :)

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Get a used one

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