Silent Cacophony
Welcome to the mind of Chase March. This blog is the place to find musings, book reviews, skatepark tours, teaching-related articles and resources, and information about DJing. Please use the navigation page to focus in on topics that interest you.
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Just Do It!
New music from Hamilton Hip-Hop Ambassador, Eklipz. I really like this track. It’s inspirational and beautiful. The video features some dope parkour too. Check it out!
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Teaching Tip – Classroom Posters and Art
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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Ender in Exile (Recommended Read)
Ender’s Game is a science fiction classic and its sequel, which takes place some 3000 years later, is equally amazing. The original books came out in the mid 1980s and sparked an entire series of novels. So far, there have been eight in total. I found this hardcover of Ender in Exile in the discount…
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Music for Skaters (Clean Version)
I love skateboarding and I love mixtapes, so I decided to bring both things together and craft “Music for Skaters” I love the artistry of mixtapes. Choosing songs, blending them together, weaving a theme and mood throughout, and then sharing the mix. What could be better that that? How about having a finished product that…
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No Spam, Please!
I’ve been getting a lot of spam comments on my blog lately. Fortunately, Google does a good job of catching these bogus comments before they get published to the site. With the screen capture above, you can see that there were 66 spam comments posted just today. And this has been happening daily for over…
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Best of August 2011 (Chasing Content)
It’s the first of the month! Time to go strolling through the archives to see what we were doing here last year at this time. It’s time for Chasing Content. Read all of the posts from last August . . . or just these awesome ones! Camping Adventure Part 1 – A true life story…
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Teaching Tip – Music
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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I’ve Been Saying It Wrong All This Time
English: Humming Bird – Texas (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I like to ponder over things, especially at stores. I examine the product carefully, turn over the package several times, ask myself whether or not I should buy it, if I’ll get good use out of it, if it is exactly what I want, if it’s worth…
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Scrabble Tiles, Word Games, and YA combine in "Mutiple Choice"
Multiple Choice is a novel by Janet Tashjian that I knew I just had to read. I found it in the school library and was immediately drawn to it. It was one of those books that I just wanted to dive into and forget about everything else. Of course, I couldn’t do that. I was…
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Graphic Novels of 2012 (Part 3)
I am blogging everything I read over the course of this year. It’s a pretty impressive list and it is continuing to grow. Here are the latest graphic novels that I have read this year. Marvel 1985 by Mark Millar and Tommy Lee Edwards This graphic novel was originally published as a six-issue series in…