Monthly Archives: January 2008
It's raining! The sky is falling! aaargh!
I like Thursdays, they’re easy. To begin with I have a small group of year 9 students who are quite low ability. We spend most of the lesson doing easy work that keeps them occupied. Then I have a period where I assist in a maths lesson, followed by year 12 groups for three lessons. Year 12s mostly shut up and cause no hassle. After that it’s a free period… Continue reading
I have/have not renewed my domain
My other domain, piku.co.uk was up for renewal at the start of the year. I filled in the required forms and gave away a whole £15 to my hosting provider.
Last week I got a letter from Nominet asking when I’d like to pay them £80 to renew piku.co.uk for another two years. Eh? £80? and why when I have just renewed it? I set an email off to my… Continue reading
Microsoft Access – Fail!
Today was one of those days…
First I couldn’t find a power lead for the projector I was using, so had to run across half the school – at the beginning of a lesson – to find another one. Then one of the kids who was supposed to be in detention ran off. There was then two lessons where I utterly utterly failed to teach a meaningful database lesson to my… Continue reading
Much better
My cold’s going away. I felt quite fresh and awake today, with only the odd random bout of coughing and spluttering. My ability to bounce my voice off the back walls of my classrooms has returned.
Today contained a very long and slightly tedious set of meetings after work that went on for a bit too long… Continue reading
Nothing
I spent today in bed. My cold or whatever I have seems to have gone away, leaving just a slightly satisfying cough to put up with. Hopefully that’ll go away soon too… Continue reading