This is the SPH-P9000 and I want it!!!! It's so cool! This is the excerpt I got from www.newlaunches.com "At the Mobile WiMAX Summit 2006 in Korea Samsung unveiled the SPH-P9000 a convergence device capable of voice and multimedia data communications through Mobile WiMAX technology. The device utilizes Mobile WiMAX for Internet connectivity and CDMA EV-DO for voice communications. The SPH-P9000 runs on Windows XP Professional and it is no bigger than a portable DVD player. Folded away neatly is a QWERTY keyboard which makes typing very easy compared to a touch screen. Other specs include Camera for web conferencing, 30 GB hard drive and a 5 inch WVGA screen all packed into a device which weighs a bit more than one pound. Kitae Lee, President of the Telecommunication Network Business at Samsung Electronics, says “Our new SPH-P9000 is just one of the few Mobile WiMAX convergence devices to be introduced to the world. Samsung will expand our portfoli...

It seems kinda pointless to do this lesson now because it should have been done right after the vacation break. It's the last lesson in the book so I guess I should finish it. I am finished teaching at this elementary school on December 6th. My school is giving me an early vacation because I am teaching 24 classes a week- which is 4 classes more than my contract allows. Oh- for any teacher that's in a similar situation where you are teaching more than what is written in your contract, talk to the school. Anything is negiotiable (except money...most public schools don't have the funding to pay you for overtime and that might also break your contract). Anyway, I'm going to do the first 3 lessons in the chapter. I'm just going to go over the material on the computer because most of the students have already learned it and I'm obligated by the teachers to "teach" out of the book. I figure this will eat up about 25 minutes of the class then I'll ...

These are the shows that I'm watching this year and my current ratings and comments. The Office: A- It's not as fun as last year, I think Steve Carrell's character is becoming too sappy and losing a bit of his wackiness. I think he's funnier when he's a caricature of a businessman. The Gay Witch Trials were hilarious and so was the last episode when they go to the Indian celebration and Ryan says he is saving up for, "travel and an X-Box." Battlestar Galactica: A+ It got off to an Elie Wiesel start, but I quickly got into the story. The new surprises are sucking me into the storyline and I really like the reinvigorated search for Earth storyline. I still think Baltar is a prick, but that's his job. The last episode where he thinks he is a Cylon is intriguing, but in retrospect it should have been like... duh. Starbuck is going to start flying again! That always makes me happy. Heroes : A I like it. I like it and I'm starting to like it mor...

My blog has officially hit 5000 hits! Thank you all for reading my blog. I'm not sure what direction I have for this blog, so it is what it is. I initially started this blog back in April 2005 to keep track of my lesson plans, write about my South Korean experience, and to store other random bits of information so it would be easily retrievable by me. So to be honest, most of the time I'm writing this for an audience of one...me^^ However, if you find parts of this useful to you then I'm honored, and I will continue hard to keep writing this. Once again, I would like to thank you for reading. Dan

I love doing role plays in class. I simply try to make as many roles as possible and get the kids to act it out. I find it is best to first show a short clip of what you're going to act out, play it 2 or 3 times and then get the kids to help write the dialogue on the board. Then I give out parts. Usually I pick the most animated and/or popular kids in class to do it first. I know that sounds awful but it's all psychology. If I pick them first then it will get kids excited and they will pay attention. I noticed that if I pick the unpopular kids or the kids that the other kids deem "crazy" then I won't be able to replay the play more than once and I spend the time yelling at everyone to simply be quiet! The role play we did today was the ant and the grasshopper. The ant is working hard and asks the grasshopper for help, but the grasshopper says that he is sick then winter comes and the grasshopper has no food...yadda...yadda...yadda. I picked out the roles ...

and I'm alright with that. My 6th grade 백합 class is filled to the brim with little punks that try every second of every class to undermine my authority and act (is it acting or a pre-existing condition???) like lunatics trying to catch a fly in a hermetically sealed room. I just made them copy stuff off of the board and made them repeat stuff like it was one of the English Classes I swore I would never teach. I also didn't play a game with the class. It was boring. It was tedious and I know they didn't like it or me. The scary thing is that I really enjoyed feeding off the negative energy in the class. Maybe I could be an evil teacher.

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I wish it was time to go home instead of having to teach the 6th graders. I do have candy to get rid of so I am going to do a quiz day with prizes for the game. I made up quiz questions from Harry Potter, Spongebob, and Deathnote- I figure kids will remember these things. I got some of the questions from this site. It worked really well in my first class. I mean the lesson from the book is utterly placid :P It simply works them into a lull. I am going to shorten the lesson to about 20 minutes in the next class and spend 10 minutes getting students to make up their own quiz questions and then spend the rest of the time having a "Quiz Show." Candy is a great motivator^^

I love this anime enough to read the manga^^ I know I've said that before, but I think that the art and the story is awesome. It's kinda like Conan (the detective), Bleach, and Full Metal Alchemist mixed into one. Wait maybe not so much FMA because FMA is my all time favorite anime, but this one is quite good. It's a tad dark for my tastes and it doesn't have the light comic relief of a character like Al, actually, Ryuk (I think that's correct) the shinigami (sp...sorry) is quite dark and adds to the tension rather than eases it. The story is about a brilliant student named Light Yagami that finds a Death Note-a notebook that if one writes the name of any person that person will die- and he decides to use the note to cleanse the world of evil and become its new god. Yes, it's about a kid with unimaginable powers with a god complex. Light begins killing criminals one by one- if he just writes the names of a criminal in the book, they simply die, he can speci...

All you need for this is a bunch of 4 x 3 white notecards from the stationary store and prepare a short slideshow with pictures of your family or friends. What I'm going to do is show my different classes pictures of either my mother, father, sisters, or friends and tell them a little about them. I'm going to work in what they like and what kind of a person they are into the lesson. For example, my friend Henry is an opera singer and he loves to sing and cook cakes and he wants to look pretty like that this Korean guy. Then I'll ask them to write him a holiday postcard with scenes from Korea or well wishes for the holiday season. In another class I'll show them a picture of my sisters Jill, Jenna, and my Mom and Dad. Then I'll collect them all and mail them out to the states. I think everyone will get a big kick out of it and they'll realize that I'm really happy in Korea and there is no need to fear the bomb^^

Monkeyboys like red shoes

Due to vacation and other delays like picnics and stuff I have to get through the last two chapters in 1 month when the curriculum says I should take two. I can Swim. 1. I'll first go through the dialogues in the book and then show flashcards of people swimming/skiing/playing soccer etc and ask kids things they can do and they can't do. 2. Then I'll show a picture of a bear/alien/mouse/ and a fairy and ask things that they can do and can't do. 3. I'm going to jump ahead to Look and Listen 2 and Listen and Repeat 2 in the book. 4. Chant. Help Me, please! Help! Help! Help me, please. Help! Help! Help me, please. Wait! Wait! I'm coming. Wait! Wait! I'm coming. Help me, please. I'm coming. Help me, please. I'm coming. Help me, please. I'm coming. Whew! (Repeat.) GAME: I can/I can't charades. Kids have to mime out things they can and can't do and the class has to guess. I would have to do this by incorporating m...