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Friday, August 28, 2009

Glasses for Teachers





I had become a teacher for eleven (11) years. That was way too long for a profession but I did love the feeling of helping and teaching young minds.

Although, there is a saying, "Any one can teach but not every one can be a teacher." I guess, this means that to become a true teacher, one is more committed than the others.

With all the pressures and paper works for a teacher, I started having symptoms that were affected by work-related stress. I was later then, advised to wear eyeglasses for work.

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But I want chic eyeglasses that will not make me look geek or something silly. So, stylish and fashion but not too loud glasses will help a lot.

Parents Join School Events

I recently joined my kid and nephew for a school function. We sure did have fun but this reminds me that students even in college should have functions that do involve parents. I guess this will make the school experience more worthwhile and productive.

Parents get to know the standing of their student and have the chance to inquire the doings and performance of their kid.

This will make the needed actions done more promptly than them being sorry.

Joining school function was fun especially seeing my kid perform on stage. It made me become a more proud parent.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Work or Study but Play Too

I was a very straight student and worker that I hardly play. I only destress through reading, movie watching or shop wandering. My kid and husband do enjoy computer games, PSP and some physical recreations like inline blades, and biking.

It is quite important that we find ways and means to get recharged from the usual routine like school or work. My family does play with nintendo Wii accessories to maximize their recreation.

The bottom line here is, regardless of what we do, we must find time to enjoy life with our loved ones around otherwise, your day-in and day-out can be as grim.

Missing My Students

After months of corporate work, I kinda miss my students a lot. It is only a nice thought that whenever I see my students along the road, I always get the warm greetings.

Come next semester, I shall go back to teaching but do part time works to concentrate on my business. I guess it's really a passion that I can't do without.

I will surely miss the new friends and acquaintances I met from my recent job. Perhaps, in other times and occasion, I will still meet them.

Monday, August 24, 2009

My Students' Blogs

When I started blogging, I used the medium to spit my boiling emotions about anything but then, I have used it too in my classroom instruction.

I did guide my students how to go through creating blogs and writing their posts. Some of my students were quite interested while others simply gave a cold shoulder.

But, I caught their attention when I told them that they can earn through blogs. With the right blogging skill and free seo service, earnings can be made in multitude of ways.

I stopped teaching but not from blogging. I simply love to write and will continue writing. I miss my students a lot but I wish that they have kept their blogs and continued writing regardless if they receive monetary compensation or not. I taught them that values are as important as IQ, so, I am pretty sure that they could be blogging for something more ideal.

Check 2009 Programming Languages

If I have to evaluate programming language, I will check it against these criteria: support, ease of use, and flexibility.

For devtopics.com, programming languages' popularity is checked agains the following:
  • New applications written in the language
  • Existing applications written in the language
  • Developers that use the language primarily
  • Developers that use the language ever
  • Web searches
  • Available jobs that require skills in the language
  • Developers’ favorites
There are sites that rank programming languages. Tiobe.com for one has the results below for 2009.

Position
Aug 2009
Position
Aug 2008
Delta in PositionProgramming LanguageRatings
Aug 2009
Delta
Aug 2008
Status
1 1 Java 19.527% -2.04% A
2 2 C 17.220% +1.04% A
3 4 C++ 10.501% +0.44% A
4 5 PHP 9.390% +0.04% A
5 3 (Visual) Basic 8.486% -2.37% A
6 6 Python 4.489% -0.49% A
7 8 C# 4.443% +0.75% A
8 7 Perl 4.028% -0.67% A
9 10 JavaScript 2.812% -0.08% A
10 9 Ruby 2.490% -0.43% A
11 11 Delphi 2.337% -0.39% A
12 13 PL/SQL 0.982% +0.30% A
13 14 SAS 0.817% +0.27% A
14 27 RPG (OS/400) 0.752% +0.52% A
15 26 ABAP 0.739% +0.51% A
16 16 Pascal 0.675% +0.26% A-
17 12 D 0.662% -0.69% B
18 17 Lisp/Scheme 0.630% +0.25% B
19 41 Objective-C 0.612% +0.51% B
20 25 MATLAB 0.560% +0.32% B


For other ranking sites and their results , do check here.