http://www.wordarc.com/rss/JacksonRSS Feed for WordArc: Jackson's Articlesen-usThu, 29 July 2010 02:02:44 GMTThu, 29 July 2010 02:02:44 GMTWordArc RSS 2.0 GeneratorWordArc@wordarc.comWordArc@wordarc.comhttp://www.wordarc.com/Jackson/2010/06/22/What_is_in_a_Joke%3F"A joke should be judged by how funny it is (or isn't), not by its potential to hurt people's feelings" ~Hogan "Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand." ~Twain A joke is, essentially, a way of making people laugh. Beyond that, ho... Continue Reading at: http://www.wordarc.com/Jackson/2010/06/22/What_is_in_a_Joke%3F2010-06-22 16:56:30http://www.wordarc.com/Jackson/2010/06/22/What_is_in_a_Joke%3Fhttp://www.wordarc.com/Jackson/2010/04/27/Why_I_love_Teaching%2C_episode_one(A french classroom) Me: Well, what do you think chèvre means? It says fromage de chèvre. Student: well, fromage is cheese. Me: Ya. And what would chèvre mean? Student: Like, an animal? Me: Totally. What kind, though Student: Cows make... Continue Reading at: http://www.wordarc.com/Jackson/2010/04/27/Why_I_love_Teaching%2C_episode_one2010-04-27 00:37:20http://www.wordarc.com/Jackson/2010/04/27/Why_I_love_Teaching%2C_episode_onehttp://www.wordarc.com/Jackson/2010/02/23/I_need_a_nameI need a name for the part of the the tide where the most of the flotsam goes the part of the water responsible for the cramping of the rows of driftwood, lining ocean shores uneven disheveled and wild what's the name of that ocean-hand tha... Continue Reading at: http://www.wordarc.com/Jackson/2010/02/23/I_need_a_name2010-02-23 20:41:43http://www.wordarc.com/Jackson/2010/02/23/I_need_a_namehttp://www.wordarc.com/Jackson/2010/02/23/I_love_my_womanI love my woman when she's in my arms when her head is rested on my chest its when I am the closest to her charms that I forget how much I need The Rest I love my woman when she's by my side when our eyes look out at the same goal when our... Continue Reading at: http://www.wordarc.com/Jackson/2010/02/23/I_love_my_woman2010-02-23 20:24:27http://www.wordarc.com/Jackson/2010/02/23/I_love_my_womanhttp://www.wordarc.com/Jackson/2010/02/23/What_I_missI don't need cable, nor internet nor advertisements in my head There's plenty I don't miss out here But I sure do miss my bed I miss the sheets that held me close And the cushions that cradled my head And the rich deep mattress that knows... Continue Reading at: http://www.wordarc.com/Jackson/2010/02/23/What_I_miss2010-02-23 20:19:50http://www.wordarc.com/Jackson/2010/02/23/What_I_misshttp://www.wordarc.com/Jackson/2010/02/23/Is_WorseI have a lust to wander wide, and follow each path to its end. I'd be willing to lose prestige or wealth but not to lose a friend I could lose my train of thought one day and spoil a line of verse. I'd miss the chance to publish works; to... Continue Reading at: http://www.wordarc.com/Jackson/2010/02/23/Is_Worse2010-02-23 20:01:22http://www.wordarc.com/Jackson/2010/02/23/Is_Worsehttp://www.wordarc.com/Jackson/2010/01/07/Five_and_SevenSo often, we are barricaded by numbers figures, with no form I wondered at these Simple constraints on my words and my thinking too Though simple (they are) so too, simple, is a knife and oh, how it cuts Like a knife, are bars Neve... Continue Reading at: http://www.wordarc.com/Jackson/2010/01/07/Five_and_Seven2010-01-07 03:54:06http://www.wordarc.com/Jackson/2010/01/07/Five_and_Sevenhttp://www.wordarc.com/Jackson/2009/12/28/Your_students_are_not_ChildrenFrom: How to teach Naked (Jackson, Future Publication) Your Student’s are not Children! Your students are not children! Children are willful, uncontrollable, rampantly creative and smelly. Your students, on the other hand, are willful, u... Continue Reading at: http://www.wordarc.com/Jackson/2009/12/28/Your_students_are_not_Children2009-12-28 22:46:13http://www.wordarc.com/Jackson/2009/12/28/Your_students_are_not_Childrenhttp://www.wordarc.com/Jackson/2009/07/22/Thinking_about_Roadblocks_to_Digital_LiteracySo I was talking to a friend the other day, and she said that the school she taught at had one computer in each classroom, reserved for games, plus the teacher's password-protected unit. I had been thinking for a while now about teaching I.T. to s... Continue Reading at: http://www.wordarc.com/Jackson/2009/07/22/Thinking_about_Roadblocks_to_Digital_Literacy2009-07-22 21:56:51http://www.wordarc.com/Jackson/2009/07/22/Thinking_about_Roadblocks_to_Digital_Literacyhttp://www.wordarc.com/Jackson/2009/07/16/I_don%27t_want_to_disturb_youI don't want to disturb you. It isn't that you are all so quiet that I can hear a pin drop. From a mountaintop; perhaps I could hear it from there. But you all share and share, not quietly, but incessantly. You are discussing the varia; too many t... Continue Reading at: http://www.wordarc.com/Jackson/2009/07/16/I_don%27t_want_to_disturb_you2009-07-16 17:45:58http://www.wordarc.com/Jackson/2009/07/16/I_don%27t_want_to_disturb_you