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Welcome to the sounding board for Chase March. Here you will find my various articles about a variety of topics (DJ Events and news, book reviews, skatepark tours, teaching-related articles and resources, and much more)
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Chasing Content – January 2008
Chasing Content is a feature on Silent Cacophony that has us looking back at the best posts of the month that was. Today, we travel back to 2008 to see what was happening here on the blog five years ago. You can read all of the posts from January 2008 . . . or just…
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Report Card Comments
Report card comments should be specific to the child. Each comment should reflect what your student has accomplished in the reporting period, what areas they may have had trouble in, and next steps for improvement. It can feel like a huge undertaking when first starting to come up with your own personalized comments. The comments…
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Some Music Really is Garbage
I was better off when I thought this was merely fiction. It’s hard to imagine that poverty exists to this extent. The timing of this is also something because just today I blogged about that book and then I come across this video. Cateura, Paraguay is a town essentially built on top of a landfill.…
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Chasing Content – January 2009
The one bad thing about blogs is how quickly the posts get buried in the archives. It’s sometimes hard to stroll through the olds posts and relive the great articles and content that get published on a blog. I try my best to make my content easily accessible. At the start of each month, I…
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The 5 Pillars of the Music Business
“The music business was built around five pillars: Free radio promotion A limited number of competing music labels The high cost of production, requiring musicians to get financing from labels The Top 40 hits-based focus of the baby boomer generation A high margin, nonreproducible medium (the LP) One by one, each of these five pillars…
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The Word is Bond Podcast
Check it out, my podcast is now on the first page of the hip-hop category. I’ve been working hard to bring you the best in underground hip-hop, music, and talk each and every week. I’m on the radio Saturday nights with Daddy J. Our show is called DOPEfm and you can tune it in on 93.3…
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Teaching Tip – Assessment and Marking
Welcome to Teaching Tip Tuesday! Every week I share with you a tip that I hope you will find useful in your teaching. You can visit the Teaching Tips Archive to see all of the tips in the order I have posted them over the years. Please check that page as I will continue to…
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Know Your History – The Complete Third Season
Know Your History is a documentary radio show that I produce each and every month. The show is subtitled “Your Monthly Dose of Hip-Hop Knowledge” I try my best to deliver content that educates and entertains. I am a hip-hop historian and love sharing these stories about the rich culture of hip-hop with you. This…
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Kool Krys Autograph
Kool Krys is a talented rap artist. Her album, “Listen to Your Art” even made it on my Top 12 albums of 2012. Even cooler is that I have it autographed now. It was such a pleasure having her on the first roundtable discussion I ever did for the radio. It was part of our…
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Star Trek: Always Chasing the Past
Star Trek is a great franchise. It’s what originally got me started in collecting comics. I needed more Star Trek stories of the original crew. I guess we all do. Star Trek: Countdown This graphic novels serves as a prequel to the reboot of the movie franchise. There were a lot of things wrong with…