I Need a Dollar

Your artist of the week is Aloe Blacc. Since this week we will be focusing on the almighty dollar (economy) our song of the week is titled “I need a dollar” performed by Aloe Blacc. Egbert Nathaniel Dawkins III (born 1979), better known by his stage name Aloe Blacc is an American soul singer, rapper,…

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Lessons Learned

Lesson One – Mustache For Mallett I hear there is a football game in Fayetteville this weekend…As of right now it is very hard for everyone in Arkansas to curb their enthusiasm knowing that the #1 college football team America (Alabama) is coming to town this weekend. Everyone has geeking the Razorback game this weekend…and…

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Sharing is Caring

Josh and Cole from 4th period working together using Google Docs. In class on Thursday, I introduced to my students one of my favorite tech tools of all time…Google Docs. Each student was given a list of economy terms to define and explain, expect they were required to type the assignment using Google Docs. Student…

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At First You Don’t Succeed…

One failed mileage vote a year ago and much lobbing this year, it is finally over…last night the millage election was held in Fayetteville and it passed with a vote of 55% for and 45% against the millage increase. With this millage passing what happens now is a basically an overhaul of Fayetteville High School….

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Tie Tuesday Hall of Fame

It’s that time of year again…we are about 5 weeks into school and students are starting to show their Tie Tuesday spirit. On this Wednesday edition of the Tie Tuesday Hall of Fame we will be inducting to students. First is pictured above, this is Sam from my 2nd period class. Each year there is…

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Using Examview

Students, today we will be using Examview to take our social studies test today. Examview is a program that allows us to take our test using laptops over the schools network. In order to do this today, there will be a few instructions that we will need to familiarize ourselves with to take our test…

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JDRF Recap

This past Saturday Woodland Jr. High Cross country participated in the annual JDRF Golden Sneaker 5k. This event is held with proceeds going to Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.This meet was a little bit different that our your typical cross country meet because it was open to everyone…not just schools. The ability of runners in this…

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Rhinestone Eyes

Gorillaz is a musical project created in 1998 by Damon Albarn of alternative rock band Blur and British cartoonist Jamie Hewlett, co-creator of the comic book Tank Girl. This project consists of the Gorillaz music itself and an extensive fictional universe depicting a “virtual band” of comic book characters. This band is composed of four…

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Lessons Learned

Lesson One – US Constitution Day Sound familiar? On this day 223 years ago, the United States Constitution was signed by 39 brave men or changed the course of history. Every year on September 17th, schools across the nation take part in Constitution Day. This is a day where we continue on the legacy left…

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