The Blog of Ms. Mercer

Wednesday January 30, 2008 in a Sentence
Today was an inverse sh*t sandwich: my desktop o/s was fried last night when the server crashed, so I had to be reimaged; the school day went great; I got my cell phone lost/stolen at the end of the day.
Tuesday January 29, 2008 in a Sentence
The high today was [...]

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Around the Corner v2 - MGuhlin.net - Mudflaps and Libraries

Public Libraries in Wyoming have a new campaign featuring the mudflap gal. Now there’s an advocacy campaign! This reminded me of back when I did work advocating for public libraries. Truckers are apparently big library users (they like audio books). For the record, I consider this [...]

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Lisa’s Lingo: My “Little” Circle of Friends
Wow, I’m part of a social network. Nice words from Lisa.
dy/dan » Blog Archive » NYT-Quality Charting Using Dumb Ol’ Excel
Dan has a video showing a really cool way to create decent looking graphs on Excel.
Kobus van Wyk - Blog
Wow! Another awesome piece of analysis from Kobus [...]

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In the New York Times: Margaret Spellings thinks NCLB is just fine, thank you very much!
Rick Scheibner » Soccer education
Definitely worth reading. His powers of observation are awesome.
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites Of The Day For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL » Blog Archive » Carnival of Education
A great idea, doing a carnival of posts on ELL/ESL/EFL [...]

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This was waiting at my door for my students and me:

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Larry Ferlazzo is a fellow teacher of mine in Sacramento, Ca. He has a great site for resources for ESL and ELL students: Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites Of The Day For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL » Blog Archive » Favorite Sites and has been doing a fantastic job using technology to help teach students at [...]

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While I have my own blog, much of what I do in the edublogosphere is commenting on other people’s blogs/posts. My indefatigable efforts to share my opinion (whether desired or not) has lead to an award as a fantastic commenter. Here is my badge, with pride:

Considering the source, I’m humbled, and the timing is great [...]

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Okay, this week’s reflection is all orchids, and it’s not because everything went well, because it didn’t…
Scott McLeod on Dangerously Irrelevant asks about adult convenience vs. what’s best for the child. In my comments there I turned it into a cross tab, and talked about the combination of doing a lesson that is both inconvenient [...]

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I got a very nice note from Zoho about my earlier post on Bridging the Gap. I will not be able to check out Zoho until the weekend, but I thought such diligence deserved a quick post. If any of you have a comment on Zoho’s performance, let me know. I’m thinking I would like to try it out [...]

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Well, what did you expect from a teacher named Alice!?! I missed posting for Cybercompliment day, so here it is…
Here are the people who did the most to help me as I started to join the edublogging community. Their help was invaluable:

Scott McLeod: He still talked to me even after I misspelled his name as [...]

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