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Teaching a Dog to Talk.: Heading Towards the Big City. Angoon to Sitka.

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Teaching a Dog to Talk. Saturday, October 12, 2013. Heading Towards the Big City. Angoon to Sitka. After gassing up in Angoon I try fishing with a bunch of local boats just outside the harbor. After an hour or so with no luck we head across Chatham Strait heading for Peril Strait on the way to Sitka. I had picked up a paper in Angoon and was able to catch up on the news. It’s remarkable that when you get unhooked from the internet, the world goes on just fine without you, and vice versa. After starting e...

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Teaching a Dog to Talk.: Left Handed Hammers, Children and Herring Jigs

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Teaching a Dog to Talk. Sunday, November 3, 2013. Left Handed Hammers, Children and Herring Jigs. The Right Tool For the Job. But things didn’t go well. After a week of dragging assorted gear through the water and nothing to show for it except lost gear, I was getting discouraged. We had traveled almost 100 miles through pristine Alaskan waters and while I hadn’t fished all of it, I had given it some serious effort. No old magazines here. He said, “Here’s what you want to do, when you get to ...You&#8217...

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Teaching a Dog to Talk.: April 2013

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Teaching a Dog to Talk. Sunday, April 21, 2013. Flashbulbs, Technology and Permanence. Using the Obsolete to Teach Science. Sometimes I wonder if this approach is a good one. A teaching colleague and myself had a spirited discussion that arose over an offhand comment about whether students should learn how a phonograph works. I argued yes, for several reasons. First there is the historical: a phonograph, like a cell phone was a breakthrough technology in its day. And there is also the sentimental in show...

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Teaching a Dog to Talk.: North to Alaska. Trailer Sailing the Inside Passage.

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Teaching a Dog to Talk. Monday, September 23, 2013. North to Alaska. Trailer Sailing the Inside Passage. Getting out of the driveway onto the road is a major accomplishment. Here we are on the Edmonds-Kingston ferry. It's the 3rd of July and I snuck in under the fifty foot mark. Actually I had measured and I was about 6" over. Sometime you need to stick it to the man. This is the hairiest part of the trip going up the Fraser River. It is pretty steep with pullouts for trucks to check their brakes. It tur...

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Teaching a Dog to Talk.: July 2014

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Teaching a Dog to Talk. Tuesday, July 22, 2014. Children, Camping and Insomnia in the Land of the Midnight Sun. Iceland summer 2:00 am. Long johns while I watched them. Akereyri, the second largest city in Iceland, we. Tent trailers, the cars, and pounding the ground like a herd of wildebeests. They were having the time of their lives. Then someone starts playing a guitar badly. I gave them my best stink eye to no avail. I hated Icelandic children. I wished I could have handed out smart phones, e...Final...

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Teaching a Dog to Talk.: November 2014

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Teaching a Dog to Talk. Sunday, November 23, 2014. Is Anyone Else Sick of "Doing What's Best for Kids? A Platitude by Any Other Name Smells Just as Sweet. I‘ll admit it, I have had it up to here with doing what’s best for kids. I know as a teacher I am supposed to be warm, fuzzy and all giving all the time but this "doing what’s best for kids” thing has finally got to me. To the news, negotiate our contract or even go to a faculty. If we were serious about doing what’s best for kids, wouldn’t...Wouldn&#8...

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Teaching a Dog to Talk.: October 2013

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Teaching a Dog to Talk. Sunday, October 13, 2013. Sitka, Land of Swimming Pools, Movie Stars. We head towards Sitka, the big city. We'll get our first shower after a week or so. Mount Edgecumbe offshore from Sitka. On the advice of some teenage girls eating ice cream we made a stop at the Harry Race Drug Store and Soda Fountain and had real milk shakes made from real milk and real ice cream. Highlight of my culinary experience in Sitka. They still have services in this chapel at times. We hemmed and hawe...

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Teaching a Dog to Talk.: Please Don't Try and Make Me Into a Better Teacher.

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Teaching a Dog to Talk. Friday, November 30, 2012. Please Don't Try and Make Me Into a Better Teacher. And just because I want to think less about teaching doesn’t mean that I do. In the shower in the morning I tweak my lesson plans for the day. I wake up in the middle of far too many nights with school on my mind and on my drive home I still wonder and reflect about what went well and what didn’t. But what I don’t want to do is to told I. Activities and techniques to connect better with my kids. I w...

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Teaching a Dog to Talk.: Perfectly Circular Holes, Differentials and Wooden Cougar Skulls.

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Teaching a Dog to Talk. Tuesday, December 18, 2012. Perfectly Circular Holes, Differentials and Wooden Cougar Skulls. Finding Usefulness in the Useless. Recently I received my first hate mail for a blog post I wrote about not wanting to be told I had to become a better teacher. You can find it here. Now I am sure there are state standards for what I should be doing in shop. But luckily my administrators don’t have time to get worked up over them, either because there are no high stakes standard...My firs...

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Teaching a Dog to Talk.: A Good Story is a Terrible Thing to Waste

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Teaching a Dog to Talk. Wednesday, September 24, 2014. A Good Story is a Terrible Thing to Waste. As I was about to start my ninth grade physical science class a polite young girl raised her hand and asked me if I had ever been arrested. I was taken aback. Through the years I have been asked any number of personal questions, but never this one. What were you picked up for? When we had nothing else going on we would wander down to the Nelson's Drug/IGA climbing wall and climb to the top, touch the overhan...