Here’s a special mixtape for you and your loved one, Valentine’s Day – DOPEfm Style. I hope you put this on while you make your loved one a nice Valentine’s dinner. Or you can spin it anytime you want to hear some smooth, respectful, hip-hop love songs. Be warned that this is some mushy rap…

These Lovely Ladies are welcome here at Silent Cacophony anytime. Lyndsy Fonseca is one of the stars of Nikita. She also appeared in the film version of Kick-Ass. Tara Overholt is the anchor of CTV News in London, Ontario. I met her last year at the London Music Awards and she looked stunning. Zooey Deschanel.…

Image via Wikipedia It’s a brand new month. A short month but one with a lot of potential. Hopefully February 2012 will be just as much fun around here as February 2011 was. It’s time to hit the road with the snowplough to see just what we can dig up. You can read all of…

Here it is, The Complete Second Season of Know Your History, your monthly dose of hip-hop knowledge. You can download all 12 episodes from the 2011 season in one handy zipped file. This is 6 hours of hip-hop radio brought to you by DOPEfm and your host and producer of the program, Chase March. We…

I found this excellent teaching tip today on the local message board. You need to be a member of my school board to access the site so I thought I would share this tip with you here. It was originally posted by Dr. Megan Cyrisse Parry-Jamieson. “Hi all — I’ve been having good results with word…

Image by Dekuwa via Flickr Many online music players have become available in the last few years, including popular sites such as Pandora and I Heart Radio. With the rise of social-networking sites, some players have been developed for the purpose of listening to and sharing music on these sites. Spotify is one of the…

As a society, we are overly obsessed with time. In fact, certain employers have started accusing their workers of “stealing” time. I think the idea of stealing time is ridiculous. As far as I am concerned there are only two ways to steal time at work. The first one has to do with the time…

Every school seems to have its own rules, procedures, and routines. There are subtle differences among the schools but they pretty much all have the same things in common. We expect our students to keep their hands to themselves and to be respectful. Some schools will spell these rules out and have them posted in…

Here’s a Teaching Tip that can really help supply teachers out. It’s tough going into a new classroom or a new school all the time. Sometimes, having a little reward for the students can really help to keep them on task and the classroom under control. In the past, I have used YouTube as an…

I came across this blog post from Dan Wineman and thought that it was a pretty interesting observation. I then saw the film Cop Out and it dealt with this very issue. (Spoiler Alert) There’s an interrogation scene in the film that is absoultely hilarious. Tracey Morgan plays a police officer with a flair for the…