On my last day as a substitute teacher, a student, Mike, asked me if I could draw. I took a break from writing a dispatch for Ephemerratic.com to show him that I could. Click here to read the whole story here and to see future drawings.

This is the drawing of the week for June 30 - July 5, 2008.

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Students in the Academy of Hospitality and Tourism at Galileo Academy give a presentation of their ideas to promote tourism in the Mission. This was a practice session before the real thing later that night.

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There are three guidelines that I like students to follow when working on some collaborative drawings together;
1. Keep it PG ("@!*#" is ok),
2. No Hating (except for celebrities and politicians) and, most importantly,
3. Work with what's there. Just look at each piece of art and add whatever words or drawings come to mind.

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Johnny, LeeAndre, Tyshema, Fiona, Mayia, and Albert each create their own endings for L'il Ray's story at 826 Valencia.

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The Ultimate Effective Classroom has:

"Effective, passionate teachers who believe that ALL kids can achieve,"
and who have the:
"Desire to Achieve and the Tools to do so: books, confidence - belief, problem solving skills, food for energy, supportive parents, effective teachers, critical thinking skills."

This picture is a close-up of The Ultimate Effective Classroom - a collective vision of a fantasy classroom.

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Josephine Ho of the Galileo High School College Center talks to seniors about their post-graduation plans. She focused on college and scholarship options but also mentioned the military as viable option - but I'd like to see a lot more information on campus about how to look more critically at the pitches that military recruiters give to students.

This is the drawing of the week for November 5-11, 2006.

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Ms. Johnson has some real nice students in her English classes at Mission High School. On the day I was subbing, we read a few pages of Frederick Douglas together, then Christopher Moore, Romeo Parreno and the other students answered some written questions.

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I brought Mr. Lee's Yearbook class next door to Mr. Huynh's room for a combined lesson on what formatting standards students should be using for all Yearbook, Journalism, and school paper Word documents. Dry stuff, but necessary for creating publications - so the students whined a little and took notes.

This is the drawing of the week for September 24-30, 2006.

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In Ms. Levine's physics classes, the only way to get the projector image to fit on the screen was to place it on several textbooks on a stool and hope that the potential energy would not be realized into kinetic energy.

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I've been teaching a "computer art" class to freshmen at Galileo Academy of Science and Technology. it's nice to be teaching an art class, but I'd rather not have to compete with all the computer games (like the Orbox B game that Robert was playing).

This is the drawing of the week for April 16-22, 2006.

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