I often say this to my students - especially when they overthink a problem. Today's Gratitude Item: Finally getting a problematic vector accepted on Shutterstock. It's a long story involving…
This one really applies to kids who don't try at all. If they do try, they will eventually succeed (even if a bit of failure is necessary first). Today's Gratitude…
This one is not an official rule in my class. It came close but one of my students plagiarised and then quoted this 'rule' as an excuse. So it got…
This one applies to both essay writing and creating program code. Today's Gratitude Item: An unexpected 'thank you' which involved more than nice words :)
As is so often the case, exploring an 'old' variation resulted in something rather 'new'. Today's Gratitude Item: Getting a new popcorn maker. The old one was starting to have…
Turning this one 45 degrees made quite a difference. Today's Gratitude Item: Having classes to teach for the first three periods tomorrow. This guarantees that I won't be asked to…
Simple but hopefully effective. Today's Gratitude Item: That installing Word Press plugins is generally straight forward. The tricky part is finding a plug-in that works well for a given situation.
Changing the orientation of this one both improved it and made it slightly unnerving at the same time. Today's Gratitude Item: Making modest headway on my 'to do' list. I'm…
They look like a bunch of flowers but they are not! Today's Gratitude Item: Solving a tricky problem. One of my students emailed me his broken code and I managed…
Simple and very easy to make. Today's Gratitude Item: That my classroom was not vandalised. Some of my colleagues were not so lucky - the arrived at school today to…