TV converter

I have a couple of entries in my draft folder, but I don't feel like going back at the moment. I just finished writing about my TV converter experience, so I thought that would make a short blog entry.

I'm having no luck with the government couponed TV converter. This second converter is worse than the first. I guess it is true, I got what I paid for. I bought the converter from Target. I thought the first one was broken and exchanged it. Well, the second is worse than the first. I went from 23 channels with the other converter to 16 with my current converter. I still can't get channel 7 or 21, but I can get useless copies of other channels. Channels 5 and 9 are owned by the same company. Why don't they just create one channel and be done with it. Also, instead of dealing with snow on the screen, now I have frozen images, skipped images, and digital blocking showing on the screen when the signal fluctuates(which is frequent).

Although it is the last week of school, I've put in a last minute academic push for my students. As a general rule, I always try to maintain "academic rigor" until the last minute. I want to avoid the students bouncing of the walls until the very last minute. Having told myself that I wouldn't be investing any more time in preparation fell on deaf ears. I'm currently reading two books at the same time -- it's my lame attempt at differentiated instruction for different student levels in my classroom. I felt bad that I had a few students who probably would have done a lot better academically if I hadn't shoved them into a "one model fits all" academic plan. The positive of reading the two books is that I'm enjoying the kid books more than my current commuter reading (The Invisible Man). Also, I now have a couple of books to reuse again next year to assign for reading.

I better go. Another wasted evening. From the posting time, you can see the same old routines written about in past entries.


Post Date - Tuesday, June 23, 2009 5:09 AM