And ahh, here we go!

Alrighty then.

First post of my new blog.

Inspired by the BlogFather. I'm willing to give it a shot and join the modern world, at least to some degree (I am still holding out on the cellphone situation.)

The goal of this blog is to help my students best understand the Math that we are covering here at VJH in 2009-2010. Simply sitting around class listening to me (while occassionally entertaining) just is not going to cut it. Time to let the students become the teachers.

Each day, I am going to assign one student to take notes on the lesson(s) we covered that day in Math. That student should will best understand the lesson if they are able to put it into their own words. Once they have prepared notes for their day, the student will post their notes on this blog for the rest of the students to review.

Obviously, the student inputting the notes needs to know their stuff in order to teach that lesson to the rest of the class. Also, the rest of the students will benefit by being able to go and read the blog in the words of one of their fellow classmates - rather than the textbook which can be confusing at times.

Every day, we will choose a new student to be the "scribe" for the day. With 25 students in class, it will take 5 or 6 weeks before any student has to do the job for the second time.