Reader Appreciation: Eric Turner

November is Reader Appreciation Month at So You Want To Teach? Today’s featured reader is Eric Turner. Name: Eric Turner Location: Tennessee Occupation: History/Secondary Ed Student Blog: Secondhand Thoughts Tell me some of your favorite things about your job I love learning and I love the interaction between professor and students Tell me some things … Read more

Reader Appreciation: José Vilson

November is Reader Appreciation Month at So You Want To Teach? Today’s featured reader is José Vilson. Name: José Vilson Location: New York, NY Occupation: 6th Grade Math Teacher Blog: The José Vilson Tell me some of your favorite things about your job My favorite things about my job are the ability to help children … Read more

Weekend Wrapup 09/03/07

Labor Day edition. It’s raining. I’m catching up on housework. And falling WAY behind on blogs. I am going to trim my RSS subscriptions this week so I can get through them more quickly. I hate it when Google Reader says I have 100+ articles to read every day. Life is too short to squander … Read more

The State of the Blog: 08/01/07

I took out nearly every advertisement from the site. The exception are links to books on Amazon, and a couple of Text Link Ads. Why? They’re simply not making money and they cause screen clutter. So away they go. I additionally got rid of the SnapPreview display that had been popping up every time a … Read more

8 Steps To Building A Better Blog

This really has nothing to do with education. I wanted to take a chance to stop and address some things that happened this week in my life and the life of this blog. Every day in the past week except for Tuesday, So You Want To Teach? saw more than 50 visitors. It’s not like … Read more