Mr. C.’s Random Thoughts

Listen to this story and let me know what you think.

NPR’s Day to Day 

Mrs. Colvin, Mrs. Hawkins, and I will be sponsoring another senior trip to Europe next summer. We will be taking the Entente Cordial trip through ACIS.

Interested? Contact me, Mrs. Colvin, or Mrs. Hawkins ASAP. Students that sign up for the trip by March 31 will receive a $300 price reduction on the trip.

For more information, come to our introductory meeting on March 4. Click here for details.

For links to some of the sites we’ll be visiting, check out the “Travel Links” on the right side of the screen.

(Avignon, in the southern part of France, plays a part in The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry, which I am currently reading–see the “Outside Reading” links on the right.)

…and now I really like him. His song “Daughters” is so eloquent in how it describes how fathers can affect the lives of their daughters.

If you’ve heard the song but not really paid attention to the lyrics, click here.

One of my 5th period students said he heard people talking about my blog in McDonald’s. And they were actually interested in what was on it!

Of course, I deflated a little bit when he said they were talking about the post I wrote about Britney Spears.

I guess maybe I should give all those fami-ous people a break. It seems that they’ve finally found a purpose!

Look out, Wil Wheaton and Dooce!

This is one of the best stories I’ve heard in a LONG time. With all of the attention given lately to Anna Nicole Smith and Britney Spears, faminess is all about having the trappings of fame without any of the substance that fame used to connotate.

‘The Culture of Faminess‘ on NPR’s Talk of the Nation.

I do have a question:  when exactly will Britney Spears’ 15 minutes be over?

The US Mint has started producing $1 coins again. With the same color, size, and EM signature as the Sacagawea and Susan B. Anthony dollars, they’ll work at all the same places those coins will.

When I traveled in Canada, I really enjoyed using their $1 (the Looney) and the $2 (the Toony) coins. They seemed so much more usable than paper money.

The Looney
The Toonie (Twonie)
For more information on the presidential coins, click here.

An NPR story on a developing theory of student intelligence and its impact of student performance can be found here.

Does this story ring true to you?

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All you have to do is enter the book ISBN number and select the citation style (MLA, APA, or Chicago).

For example:

013142954X

Gives the following citations:

MLA:
Grauer, Robert and Maryann Barber. Exploring Office Xp Enhanced Edition, Vol. 2. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 2003.

APA:
Grauer, R., & Barber, M. (2003). Exploring Office Xp Enhanced Edition, Vol. 2. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.

Chicago/Turabian:
Grauer, Robert, and Maryann Barber. Exploring Office Xp Enhanced Edition, Vol. 2. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 2003.

BibTeX:
@Book{grauer2003,
author = ‘Grauer, Robert’,
title = ‘Exploring Office Xp Enhanced Edition, Vol. 2′,
publisher = ‘Prentice Hall,
year = ‘2003′,
address = ‘Englewood Cliffs’,
isbn = ‘013142954x’
}

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