bohnsack

A year ago...

2011-11-07T19:51:00.003-06:00

I was driving home from picking up two embryo heifers just delivered to the Rock Island Sale Barn from my cooperator in Kansas. I was pretty excited to get these two heifers home and happy to pick them up. I stopped at the sale barn just about 10 miles away. It was standard time and by 7:00 it was pitch dark. I talked to the truckers that delivered the heifers and they helped me load them on my trailer. We talked a little more and I headed home. I don't remember what all was going on, or why I waited so late to pick up the two heifers that I couldn't wait to see and by now were eight months old, but that's what happened. Normally, I wouldn't even remember that much detail. With six kids, details like that are often taken for granted.

On my way home, I got THE phone call. One that I will never forget (and hope I never to get again). My brother, Joel-a physics and chemistry teacher at Moline High School, whom I teach with, called on my cell and asked if I had heard about Curtis. I unaware of the situation and said "no, what?" He said Curtis had fallen in his room and had been taken to the hospital. I acknowledged that I had heard the sirens as I was leaving school and noticed some unusual commotion, but there is almost always commotion at a high school, so I just kind of shrugged it off. Joel told me that Curtis was alert and active when they found him in the classroom, but now was in an induced coma and would need surgery to repair the damages. At the time, I don't think anyone knew what was going on. I am sure I made a smart a$$ comment about Curtis and his stubbornness or something about how he was trying to get out of teaching for a couple of days. I am sure I made a comment about him and a meeting with an administrator that occurred a couple of days earlier. I should note, Curtis was a great teacher. Dedicated, caring (although not on the surface), sarcastic, with high expectations of himself and his students. He challenged everyone-himself, students, peers and administrators. Did I say peers?? I pulled into the barnyard with no expectations of Curtis's health and expected to see his surly self by Thanksgiving...Christmas at the latest. I later learned from a friend of mine, a Lieutenant in the Moline Police Department, that the hospital said it was the worst head trauma they had ever seen outside of a car accident.

I had no idea what would happen the next seven months.

Today while reading (and re-reading) the blog that Curtis' wife Sarah has so eloquently put together, I learned a new word -bereft (deprived or lacking of something. Lonely and abandoned). As usual, Sarah has put into words my feelings better than I can.

RIP Curtis...

Your friend,

Jay

Hot Certified, Noncertified IT Skills: What You Need Now - IT Management from eWeek

2010-08-31T11:02:00.000-05:00

Hot Certified, Noncertified IT Skills: What You Need Now - IT Management from eWeek

I have a job...

2009-03-17T11:00:00.002-05:00

Just to clarify, I still have a job with Moline School District. I understand I will be back in the classroom. Jesse also is still employed with the school district and I believe will be promoted to the Educational Technology Department in D100.

I guess I will be getting the opportunity to practice what I have been preaching for the last nine and a half years.

When it's OK to eat yellow snow

2008-12-08T14:35:00.001-06:00

Another Christmas Shopping Tip

2008-12-04T14:16:00.003-06:00

for all you men out there. Watch this video before shopping for a gift for your wife:
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1370868150/bctid3130509001

Merry Christmas from Amazon

2008-12-03T14:13:00.003-06:00

Amazon is giving away a Chrismas song every day for 25 days (including the Barenaked Ladies Elf's Lament).

Go to Amazon and get yourself some holiday tunes.

The role of the teacher in the age of Google

2008-10-15T12:08:00.001-05:00

Innovation in education needs to be both broadly addressed and carefully focused. Technology in education needs to be a transformative tool, not merely additive.

http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/next/archives/2008/10/what_is_the_rol.html

2008-10-03T12:27:00.001-05:00

$700 billion is 1,034 dump trucks full of $100 bills. (Thanks to schinker via twitter)

Obligatory Summer Slide Show (from Flickr)

2008-09-09T22:40:00.003-05:00

I was playing with Flickr tonite and decided to take it one step farther and embed a slideshow of my pictures.

If this doesn't work so well, you can always visit my Flickr Photostream

That's it, I'm running for President!

2008-08-28T14:44:00.000-05:00

Please remember to support me financially.

Arika washing cattle

2008-05-22T13:01:00.001-05:00

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Originally uploaded by roulo

This is a test post. I have tied my blog to my flickr photo account. Actually, this picture was taken by Claudette Roulo at the Regional Preview Show last June in DuQuoin, IL. If this works, I no longer have an excuse not to include more pictures in blog posts.

Digital Citizenship

2008-05-19T09:30:00.005-05:00

Introduction to Digital Citizenship presented at Moline High School on May 16th 2008. Also includes intro to moodle. This is the entire presentation (showing only the screen). It is 37 minutes in length. The sound is a little low at times, but I think you can hear it if you listen closely.

Don't think about thinking...

2008-05-02T14:44:00.001-05:00

It's not on the test

This is how easy it is to update blogger

2008-04-14T11:08:00.003-05:00

Just type in the text area, and click on publish post. I can always add more.

Printing Reports for Student Led Conferences

2008-04-07T14:37:00.002-05:00

To print a report for student led conferences, you should log into your skyward gradebook.
Next, select reports and Progress Detail. You will need to choose a new template and name it. In the video, I created a new template and called it student reports (change date). A new window opens and you can then select the correct quarter (example: Quarter 3). I also checked the option to Display Attendance Totals and Do not Print Assignments Marked as 'No Count' and Do Not Print Assignments Not Posted to Family Access. Next, Click Save. You can then click print -or- to print all of your classes at once, go to the last option and Click on Select Different Classes. Un-check your advisory class and any study halls (or any other classes you don't want to print).

Badger Kick off Classic (test embed Picasa slideshow)

2008-04-04T14:54:00.001-05:00

I am testing embedding a slideshow into blogger:

Happy Birthday to Mom

2008-02-22T11:59:00.003-06:00

Happy Birthday

This video was made by a flip video camera and uploaded to my youtube channel.

Death by Powerpoing

2007-12-21T14:44:00.001-06:00

Death by PowerPoint

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Fighting death by PowerPoint... How to make a presentation and not to bore your audience to death.

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Always drink upstream from the herd.

2007-12-11T11:51:00.000-06:00

This is my favorite cowboy sayings. It is so simple, common sense, yet relevant in many aspects of life. For the purpose of this blog, I am going to use it and other cowboy wisdom as it applies to educational technology.

This is just the beginning.

BOF Gold Load

2007-09-20T14:44:00.000-05:00

Congratulations to Dean Adcock for showing BOF Gold Load to a first place class winner at the 2007 Hereford Junior Nationals in Denver, CO.

2006-11-22T09:08:00.000-06:00

Ok, i am posting this using the blogger widget. This is just the tool I have been waiting for to get up to date with my blogging.

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Update

2005-08-23T11:00:00.000-05:00

School is back in session. We are scrambling to install computers in all classrooms for the new Student Information System. We are in training today and I am very happy with what the teachers will have this fall for attendance and grading.

bohnsack

2005-01-07T15:45:00.000-06:00

IVHS Topics

Blog Stuff
The Pew Internet & American Life Project The state of blogging
Blogger

http://www.bohnsack.blogspot.com/

USB Flash Drive
Silicon Mountain Memory will print logo on the drive.

Avantgo: The Web on your Palm

Instant Message (IM)
Not suppoted by eCollege of IVHS

Other:
RSS Readers
Short for RDF Site Summary or Rich Site Summary, an XML format for syndicating Web content. A Web site that wants to allow other sites to publish some of its content creates an RSS document and registers the document with an RSS publisher. A user that can read RSS-distributed content can use the content on a different site. Syndicated content includes such data as news feeds, events listings, news stories, headlines, project updates, excerpts from discussion forums or even corporate information.

like the spell check

2004-11-16T15:22:00.000-06:00

bohnsack
I wish I could find a blogger like app to install on our school servers for teachers to have their own web page. I think they would like the simplicity of it. I really like the spell check on blogger.

bohnsack

2004-11-09T15:58:00.000-06:00

just a quick update. I am also trying plog

bohnsack

2004-10-27T14:15:00.000-05:00

Well, I have been evaluating several blogging apps and cms and i have yet to find one that i like as well as blogger. I do want to find one that is as easy to use. I also like the fact that blogger has a spell checker too.

2004-10-05T14:53:00.000-05:00

sample background for lab machine

just me again

2004-10-05T14:33:00.000-05:00

bohnsack

finally time for a little more testing.

Jay

Welcome to my test blog

2004-10-05T11:18:00.000-05:00

It seems everything is in the testing stages. Maybe someday I will move beyond beta and into production.