Silent Cacophony is a sounding board for Chase March. Here you will find his podcast, book reviews, skatepark tours, teaching-related articles and resources, and much more. Please use the buttons on the home page to navigate to the topics that interest you.
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Chasing Content – October 2008
See that glow? It’s coming from the archives. Take a closer look. You can read all of the posts from October 2008 or just these sparkling ones. Welcome to the SC – I wrote this post as an introduction to what Silent Cacophony is all about. I Ran Up The Escarpment – I decided to…
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A Run Through Southcrest Ravine
Let’s explore Southecrest Ravine in London, Ontario for the latest edition of My Visual Running Tours. I really didn’t know what to expect when I started off on my run today. It certainly didn’t look like much on the trail map of the city I picked up last week. There are a few different entrance…
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Latest Graphic Novel Reads
I’m really enjoying cataloging everything I’ve read over the course of the year. I don’t know why I never did this before. Here are the latest graphic novels I’ve had the pleasure of reading in 2012. Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors by Peter J. Tomasi and Frenando Pasarin I have been reading a lot of Green…
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How To Use a Paper Towel
Over the course of our lives we use a ridiculously large amount of paper towels. I became aware of this a few years ago and took steps to reduce the amount of waste I create. One of my biggest pet peeves is seeing how much paper towel the average person uses to dry their hands…
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Thanksgiving (Not Perfect, But Just Right All the Same)
Thanksgiving is one of the best times of the year to reflect and take stock of life. We get together with family, enjoy some great food, and nice company. Last year, I seemed to just tread water through the whole thing. The year before I imagined a new start, a start that didn’t really come.…
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Black Walnut Trail – Short Hills Provincial Park
Short Hills Provincial Park is the largest park in the Niagara Region. It’s part of an environmentally significant area known as the Fonthill Kame Moraine. A kame is an irregular hill of sand, gravel and silt which accumulates in a depression on a retreating glacier, and is then deposited on the land surface as the…
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200,000 Pageviews!
Last year about this time, my blog reached 100,000 pageviews. I was proud of this milestone even though it took me four years to reach it. Now, less than one year later, I’ve doubled that number. Silent Cacophony has just reached 200,000 pageviews. Here are my stats for the week. I know I don’t have a…
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Doors Open London 2012
Doors Open London is a great event and one of the best weekends of the entire year. This past weekend, there were over a hundred different tourist attractions to visit all over the city and the surrounding counties. The best part is that the event is absolutely free. I got out to twelve different sites…
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How to Use Blogging in Your Teaching
Blogging has become an important way for people to connect. Businesses use it to reach customers. Non-profits use it to raise awareness of their brand. Teachers can even use it to connect with students and to enhance learning. There are a number of ways that teachers can use blogging in their lessons — both in…
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Chasing Content – October 2011
It’s time for another edition of Chasing Content! You know what to do. Click the links, dig through the archives, and remember all the cool things that went down right here last year at this time. Read all of the posts from last October. . . or just these Tackling NaNoWriMo – Am I Crazy…