-
Recent Posts
- Teaching Memo: A Restaurant Challenge 2020/01/16
- Teaching Memo: Support from Our Institutions / Districts 2019/12/09
- Teaching Memo: Gamification, Making Items 2019/11/13
- Conference Week, 2019! UCSS and AMLE19 2019/10/31
- Teaching Memo: How to Use Film [effectively] in the Classroom 2019/10/23
- Teaching Memo: Why I Love the IDM (Inquiry Design Model) Blueprint 2019/10/11
- Gamification as a Boat-Building Exercise 2019/09/15
Categories
Steve’s Twitter Handle
- Canvas: "When what you really want is a sideways image that you cannot rotate to its proper orientation." 2 hours ago
- Excited for today’s 2 #sundance2020 films: #WelcomeToChechnya and #Influence tonight at the tower and broadway thea… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 4 hours ago
- High praise for this picture book. I read it to my sixth graders yesterday for what I called “Cold War storytime.”… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 7 hours ago
- So far, so good: #Sundance2020 is already teaching me a lot that I’d love to share with my students. #BoysState and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 day ago
- Amazing movie, and the main subjects and the director and editor are here for questions. I hope I get to show this… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 day ago
Friends' Websites
Tag Archives: new york city
Traffic, and what it says about your city and its people
There’s a lot you can tell about a city by observing its traffic patterns and the habits of pedestrians on the street. In New York, for instance, the people are moving quickly – the vehicles as well. The walkers and … Continue reading
Posted in Civility, Travelogue, Travelogue 2017, Travels
Tagged backpacking, Berlin, caution, Culture, europe, european tour, european travel, expectations, germany, Italy, new york city, pedestrian, rome, social mores, Social Norms, social rules, traffic, traffic pattern, USA, utah
1 Comment
Nighttime in Berlin
The streets of Berlin’s neighborhoods always seem to be crowded, and the eateries do their best business in many sectors between 10pm and 2am. The trains are crowded all over the city until late at night. While walking one city … Continue reading
Posted in Travelogue, Travelogue 2017, Travels
Tagged Berlin, chicago, cities, Culture, germany, new york city, nightlife, Slow Travel, travel, Walking
Leave a comment
New York State of Mind: Boo this City.
On my way back to Utah and home, sweet home, I spent two nights in New York. The real New York, okay, guy? Not some upstate backwater like Schenectady or Buffalo. I spent two nights at a winning hostel – … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, Travelogue, Travelogue 2015
Tagged backpacking, Europe Trip, New York, new york city, travel
Leave a comment
The Best Laid Jetlag-Battling Plans…
Time zones can be tricky. The plan was to depart New York at 11pm local time, sleep through the night, arrive in Copenhagen at noon local time, and get through the day without sleeping so I could manage to sleep … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, Travelogue, Travelogue 2015
Tagged airplanes, art, Copenhagen, europe, History, jetlag, New York, new york city, NYC, the met, the metropolitan museum of art
Leave a comment
Day 4: NYC to Berlin (travel day)
Today is another travel day – this time I’ll head to JFK and then hop an AirBerlin flight to Germany. Big-city trains are dehumanizing in the same way that big-city streets are dehumanizing. Small-town folks don’t understand this, but the … Continue reading
Posted in Travelogue
Tagged big cities, buses, human interaction, intimate interaction, new york city, public transit, small towns, trains, value
1 Comment
Steve Capone