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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Free Preview
I was flicking through the television stations aimlessly the other day. Nothing was on. I searched in vain to find something worth watching. It’s been a tiring week and I needed to just kick back and relax, but nothing was on. As I channel surfed, I noticed that I seemed to get a few channels…
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How to Listen
Believe it or not, students need to be taught how to listen. Here is a poster I made up, (well actually I borrowed the idea from somewhere) to help focus on what we should do to listen well. Once again, being succinct is key. We listen with out eyes – look at who is speaking.…
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Digital Woes
I took pictures of my first day of school that I wanted to post up here. After school was over and the students had left, I tried hooking my camera up to the computer to download the photos. I got an error message that said there was no data to transfer. I said, “What?!!?,” unplugged…
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It Starts Again
It’s the last long weekend of the summer. The final hurrah. And what am I doing? Spending the majority of it in the classroom. I have to get ready for the first day of school tomorrow. It starts again. One interesting thing about teaching is that you need to constantly reinvent yourself, your routines, and…
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Trouble with Falling
I couldn’t see it coming,the hole I fell through. Four years agoeverything was a high.It felt like I was floatingbut it soon crashed down. Since then, I’ve been looking around.I need another hole to fall through.This will be much harder.I know it to be trueIt’s so easy to fall in loveWhy is it so hard…
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I See It!
For those of you unfamiliar with the excellent blog In Search Of Isis, I suggest that you click on the link and check it out. The blog is written by ECD and his mission is to celebrate the beauty of women everywhere. Yesterday, I caught a glimpse of what he sees everyday. The first time…
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Summer’s Gone
Well, that is pretty much it. The summer is gone. This time every year I listen to a song that kind of gets me depressed. The song is called “Summer” by the excellent group Buffalo Tom. “The summer’s gone. The summer’s gone. You wasted every day.” Those lyrics usually haunt me because I always seem…
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Writing Chair
This chair looks like a cross between an office chair and a rocking chair. It has a nice large cloth seat and cloth backrest. It is great for writers like me. I can type away at my keyboard for as long as I want. When I need a break, I can lean back and the…
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Anime Godfathers
I am not what you would call an anime fan. I have watched several anime movies over the past few years but none of them have really captured my imagination or attention. I usually end up shutting off the DVD player and saying to myself, “Well, that was okay.” For the most part, I have…
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Water Bottles to Toys
There have been a few newspaper articles that caught my attention lately. First was the statistics on bottled water use here in Ontario. Apparently we drink a lot of bottled water. In one region here, the bottle water drinkers were reported at 45 %. I can’t fathom why this many people who choose to pay…