New Teachers: Should You Over-Plan Your Lessons?

The question is out: how many of you new teachers (1-5 years of teaching experience) actually over-plan your lessons? As a new teacher 12 years ago, I constantly over-planned my lessons to make sure ALL students were engaged, even if it meant restructuring the lesson. In general, overplanning is a good habit to develop, especially when used as backup plans […]

Playstation 3 (PS3) hardware overview

Playstation 3 (PS3) hardware overview For once, not all about PS3 games, but the console itself We’ve taken the PS3 tech specs straight from Sony, and will of course update them as they do. The first part of this article details the basic specification, and the second part, for those who are not very familiar with CPU speeds and gigabit […]

Losing those pandemic pounds

This is really embarrassing. But I am sure I am not alone. Somehow I had the guts to step on the scale last month and found that I had gained 23 pounds during the pandemic. Is this what they mean by middle-aged spread? I felt like a slug. Deep sigh. It was like that humorous poem, “When what to my […]

Electric Car Motors: How Do Electric Car Motors Work?

The electric car is one of the technological wonders that the century has produced. It has challenged the way we view cars and has been able to apply common technology to give owners a new way of driving and owning a vehicle. For a long time, man has relied on the internal combustion engine for all his automobile needs. This […]

Common sections for your website

I have focused in the past on some individual sections of your website that you should consider implementing. What I’m going to do now is give a brief overview of a number of pages and sections that are common on websites. Homepage This page should have a short descriptive paragraph or two, along with some sort of bulleted list that […]