All homework is cancelled.

[xp_wildchild]

All homework is cancelled, instead your homework for tonight is to watch this thing and then laugh. IT IS LITERARY GODDAMMIT.

Comments

[x-firestar.livejournal.com]

So...if they come in tomorrow and tell you they didn't laugh, do they get half credit or something?

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

NO points! I award you NO points and something something I forget the rest of the quote.

[x-firestar.livejournal.com]

And may God have mercy on your soul?

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Yes, that one!

[x-firestar.livejournal.com]

If someone walks into class tomorrow and tells you they didn't laugh, you have to say that. Just saying.

[x-invisiblegirl.livejournal.com]

If we come into class so you can say sat that do we get extra extra credit?

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

No, but I'll give you guys some last-minute points for house what did I make up this semester? BUT you have to have watched it and told me why it was relevant too.

[x-jeangrey.livejournal.com]

Please note that this announcement applies to Mr. Gibney's class only.

However, that does give me some inspiration to incorporate Bill Nye the Science Guy into some of my introductory courses. Hmm...

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

(Doc Jean is it WEIRD when people call me that)

And the black dude who talks about space! He is awesome and told the guys at the Daily Show that their globe spun backwards.

[x-jeangrey.livejournal.com]

(Just trying to remain professional. I'd be glad to call you Kyle if you'd like. :) )

Neil deGrasse Tyson? Also an excellent idea.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

professional... have you seen what my 10th graders call me? (also my -dad- is Mr. Gibney. Kyle is fine. I can wait on being Mr. Gibney until like my dad's getting social security or finally loses all his hair)

Yes! That dude. THAT dude is awesome.

[x-pryor.livejournal.com]

NGT is the opposite of awesome.

He made Pluto no longer a planet.


Free Pluto! Long Live Pluto!

[x-hawkeye.livejournal.com]

Word!

[x-hawkeye.livejournal.com]

C'mon, KGibz. You secretly find your 10th graders calling you KGibz hilarious.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Not a secret, sassmaster.

[x-hawkeye.livejournal.com]

That's a new nickname.

[x-hawkeye.livejournal.com]

I really like Bill Nye. Too bad I'm not gonna be in any of your intro classes.

[x-adrienne.livejournal.com]

You could throw some Symphony of Science vids in there too and between them and Bill Nye you might not even have to teach at all!

[x-daredevil.livejournal.com]

oh, wow. awesome. SWEET!

now, back to reading Game of Thrones.

[x-adrienne.livejournal.com]

I don't know whether to be amused by the Smiths parody or upset by it. But I think I'll choose to be amused.

So between Horrible Histories, Bill Nye, and this new show Drunk History that's premiering this week, do we even need to be teachers anymore? Can't we just show episodes of this stuff in our classes and get manicures while the episodes are on?

Oh wait I guess there's no math show. So I'd still have to teach. DAMNIT! How come nobody writes funny, educational shows about math?

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

Psssssst, Adrienne. This may be relevant to your interests? :)

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOGeU-1Fig3rrDjhm9Zs_wg

[x-adrienne.livejournal.com]

Okay, yes, these are definitely getting added to my teaching syllabus!

I think I'll have to cancel math homework today and assign everyone to make hexaflexagons and use snake modules to make fractal curves.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

Snakesnakesnakesnakesnakesnake

[x-adrienne.livejournal.com]

Yes, I enjoyed that one especially. I wasn't familiar with the phone game so I didn't get it at first but Tandy enlightened me.

I'm also highly impressed by her doodles. (And wow that sounds wrong, doesn't it?) If any of my students brought me doodles like that, instead of tweeting during my lectures when they don't want to pay attention, they might get extra credit.