Shawn Moore's Page

I have started an experiment in collaborative writing and I am would like to invite anyone who is interested in participating to please email me. The first project is to collaboratively write a Physical Science textbook utilizing Google Docs as the medium. This textbook will be licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and is intended as an alternative to purchasing textbooks. I am focusing on the NC Standard Course of Study since that is where I teach, but hope that this can be… Continue

I have been away from this group for a long time. I made a big change going into this school year. I moved from the middle school I had been teaching at to a new high school. The school that I am at is an Early college High School which is part of the New Schools Project that is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It is a very exciting, innovative and decidedly "outside the box" program and I am honored to be a part of it.



We are very much under a microscope and we are… Continue

" O frabjous day,
Calloo! Callay!"

An end to another year, but a beginning to a new job at a new school with a completely different mindset. I'm going to have a short summer, but I am really excited about the new possibilities!

Finished End-of-Grade testing today and then broke up a fight in the cafeteria an hour later. 6 days to go... Hope you all are making it through this stressful time!

The RAM fairy paid my classroom a visit and left me 10 128mb RAM chips for my Mac resurrection project! Actually, it was our technology specialist who left them for me, she just neglected to tell me she had left them in my box a week ago. I found them Friday and was positively giddy! I have been sticking the two chips that I had into a computer, firing it up, updating the firmware and the OS, shutting it down, removing the RAM and repeating the process with the next computer. Whew! Now they are… Continue