I am listening to Bach cello suites by Pablo Casals and I'm trying to figure out my lesson plans for next week. I need to have a lesson ready by Wednesday. This week my topic has been "Roommates" with a focus on Opposites. I did a matching game. That reminds me, I think this week I need to plan a new Jeopardy game. My fifth and 6th grade classes have been asking for it. Categories: Harry Potter, Anime, The World, Opposites, and The Sentence. That should take up 20 minutes of the class or so. Plus, they seem to enjoy it. Anyway, I start off the "Roommates" with a 5 minute game. They throw the dice around and they have to say an English word and then pass the dice to someone else. That person takes the last letter of the word and tells the class a word that starts with that same letter. Starting the lesson off this way is a great way to get a good vibe from the students. Then I write a dialogue on the board and get them to copy it, repeat it, and then p...

I think I want to change the format of my podcast. I think I could use it to tell my life in a very interesting way. This will be my podnovel. I can work in all sorts of interesting things that go on in my life and reasons why I will do it. I wish to negate my first podcast, but I don't think I'll get it perfect before it is through. I am going to use my blog as my brainstorming board and I'm going to use Garageband as my tapestry scroll. Ill repute...Dichotomy... Lexander and Ares: In one world, a warrior gets all the power he needs to defeat the hegemony. It was this singular goal that kept him pure. After he defeats the powers, he is given rule over the world. Power corrupts him and those that impowered him return to either reason with him or destroy him. "I had no choice. I couldn't be weak, I couldn't seem weak in their eyes. Those with a little taste of power want more and more. It is impossible to rule with fairness and justice. What is fair is we...

Zorro was fun. I mean it wasn't amazing, but it was a very enjoyable. It had the train robbery scene, Zorro doing acrobatic stuff, their cute son being prezorro, Catherina Zeta-Jones looking.....grrrll...yeowl! and an evil villain trying to be Tyler Durden and blow up all of California. I'm actually looking forward to seeing Corpse Bride and Wallace and Gromit on the big screen (which I believe will be out this weekend...anybody up for it? Dan On 11/3/05, Jonathan Betts Fields So where does the prefix Pod- come from? I'm sure there are folk transmitting music without permission. You, me, and many Limewire.com users all know this. Never say never...and you've got music on your computer - that makes you music enough...but I could care less about going back and forth. What I really want to know is how was the Legend of Zorro? JBF On 11/3/05, Daniel Gray < dnlgray@gmail.com > wrote: A podcast isn't music and plus I'm not very musical. I was just ...

I think I'm podcasting. I hope I'm podcasting. Hmmmm...Let's see if this works. Check out my podcast on itunes. Search for Koreazy in Korea Or click on this MY PODCAST just download it for now. I'm working on getting it to work as an RSS Feed.

 

TEST I want to put my lessons on my blogs and use this as my powerpoint, because I think it'll be faster. Dan

Cast Easy - About Us I think I've finally done it. I've made my own podcast, episode one. Cast Easy seems really easy to use. I might even pay for it :) If this all works my podcast should be at www.homepage.mac.com/happylunatic/podcast I can wish and pray. Listen to me, and tell me what you think. Koreazy in Korea, Dan

Korean Deconstruction Coffee... Coffee comes in long, tube packaging because the Koreans like to use the wrapper as the stirrer. Americans need a spoon or waste time with stirrers. Dan

So, I downloaded Picasa for my PC at school and it is a great program. I mean it works almost exactly like iPhoto, but you can't get iPhoto for the PC platform. Oh, I'm in a transitioning mode these days, last night Firefox went to shit and it broke - losing all of my bookmarks and password saves. Ok, it was unintentionally my fault. Firefox has been getting really buggy, so I upgraded it. After upgrading a window came up that asked what profile I wanted to use. I tried the default, but it gave me an error message so I had to make a new one. The new browser was cleaned out of all the bookmarks that I had saved. That pissed me off...A lot. I spent the next hour or so googling for a solution. I found one. But in the process I learned about Camino and I downloaded it. I only played with it for like 10 minutes, but I quickly added my bookmarks from firefox and was browsing very quickly. For some strange reason, I'm not a huge fan of Safari. It doesn't seem to b...

I'm going to learn to use powerpoint this weekend. It's my mission. I'm going to load them to my ipod and go powerpoint crazy! Engadet has a good site. http://www.engadget.com/entry/2872212676610755/ Dan

I'm testing if I can post blogs simply through my e-mail.  -- Daniel Lee Gray Yeoksam, Seoul, South Korea MSN dnlgray e-mail: dnlgray@gmail.com Read my blogs at www.happylunatic.blogspot.com Sometimes you've just gotta put it all on the line and go for broke in this poker game we call life.

gmail is totally kickass, but google is not the underdog. They are a supersmart corporation that is trying not to act like it. It's as if they are super rich vegans, living in a cabin on a 100 acres of land. On the outside, the appearance is austere, but inside that cabin is super hooked up with all the latest James Bond doo hickeys and they spend 100 dollars on a karat of carrot. They are a braintrust and they are building up capital for an empire, but it is not only to do stuff with the google website. I think they envision a google empire in the horizon and the CEOs are smart, smart, smart. But I don't think they are sticking to their principals. Or if they are sticking to their principals, with the influx of cash they are getting now, they are going to jumpstart their plans several years early. The CEOs realize right now that there is an allure surrounding Google and they are playing with their stock like a steak on a stick around a hungry dog. I mean they issued...

This whole week I'm going to do a Halloween lesson. I'm going to pit the students against each other for the love of candy. I know it's a bit devious, but in this society it's an effective teaching method and dolefully encouraged. I am going to read the students a dialogue about Halloween and ask them questions. If they get it right then I'll give them candy. For the 3/4 it'll be easy, but for the 5/6 a little more difficult. I have two dialogues. One about the Day of the Dead and Halloween. This is one possible Halloween dialogue. This is from http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/halloween/#abouthalloween About Halloween Halloween is celebrated on October 31st. It takes place the day before All Saints' Day. In the 700's, the Roman Catholic Church named November 1 as All Saints' Day. The old pagan customs and the Christian feast day were combined into the Halloween celebration. Many superstitions and symbols are associated with Halloween. ...