Gordaen's Blog

I’ve really tried to avoid politics in my blog lately because people can become so divided and aggravated simply by someone not sharing the same view. Unfortunately, I’ve got to let loose some steam with the latest news on the Republican front. For those who have managed to avoid hearing about it, Sarah Palin is [...]

Future-me called, expressing his appreciation of my solid money management and lack of credit card debt. In reward, he let slip that Obama won the presidential election with John Edwards as his running mate, netting 56% of the popular vote. Surprisingly, Obama didn’t swear in using the Koran and his secret terrorist buddies haven’t taken [...]

In creating a 90-day unit plan, I wanted to focus a few lessons on teaching students how to discern opinion, fact, and bias in news stories. I thought it would be a good idea to show two articles covering the same topic, so that the students could analyze how the wording changed the tone of [...]

Wonder where Barack Obama finds such great speeches? Well, it’s not my Barack Obama Random Speech Generator… haha. I had the idea the other night to throw together a speech generator that could come up with speeches that sounded like what Obama might say. It’s nothing fancy and certainly far from perfect, but it only [...]

Anyone who knows me pretty well could probably guess that I support Obama. Besides having logical, step-by-step plans that mostly mirror my own thoughts and having a far better understanding of technology than pretty much anyone who is “high up” in our government, he is actually restoring my faith that it is possible to have [...]