American Indian Heritage Month @ SFCC

Encore Presentation!!
A second showing of “Surviving Columbus: The Story of the Pueblo People” will be Monday, November 23, 2009 from 4 – 6 pm in Room 570.

Food, Inc. Screening

@ Santa Fe Community College Join Bill Potter and his English 109 classes for a screening of Food, Inc. a documentary that lifts the veil on food industry practices that have put our health, the livelihood of farmers and the environment at peril.

Tuesday, Nov. 17 from 10:00 – 11:15 with Gretchen Scott and Tanya Story, [...]

‘Whatever it takes’ Governor charges new task force with saving The College of Santa Fe

John Sena | The New Mexican
3/24/2009
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/-Whatever-it-takes–Governor-charges-new-task-force-with-saving-The-College-of-S#- 3/25/09
Members of a newly appointed task force charged with saving the College of Santa Fe began their task during an hour-long meeting Tuesday in a campus classroom.
Gov. Bill Richardson, declaring that “our objective is to keep the College of Santa Fe going forever,” named more than two dozen people [...]

Finance Committtee 49th Legislature of New Mexico

Just who is on this Finance Committtee that is purposely letting HB 577 stall, effectively blocking the democratic process of our state and our country?

Why here they are right here via http://www.nmlegis.gov/lcs/committeedisplay.aspx?CommitteeCode=SFC
FINANCE
Monday through Saturday – 1:30 p.m. (Room 322)

Title
Name
Role

Senator
John Arthur Smith – (D)
Chair

Senator
Carlos R. Cisneros – (D)
Vice Chair

Senator
Rod Adair – (R)
Member

Senator
Pete Campos [...]

Time running out on state takeover of CSF

John Sena | The New Mexican
3/20/2009
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/Time-running-out-on-state-takeover-of-CSF
A sign on the window of Sen. John Arthur Smith’s office Friday might dash the hopes of people wanting a state university to acquire the College of Santa Fe campus.

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“Senate Finance Committee Will Not Meet For Remainder Of The 2009 Legislative Session,” the sign said.
House [...]

Santa Fe Community College, New Mexico; a College or a High School?

February 11th 2009 at approximately 10:00 P.M. to 10:30 P.M. two of my fellow students and I were detained by a SFCC security guard. Our class ends at 9:45 and we needed to stay after to speak with the instructor on very important topics. No where that I can find is it posted or printed [...]

Highlands board approves CSF takeover

John Sena | The New Mexican
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/NMHU-votes-for-CSF-takeover

1/12/2009 –
LAS VEGAS, N.M. — The New Mexico Highlands University Board of Regents on Monday approved a takeover of the College of Santa Fe, less than two months after the college floated the idea of state incorporation of the school.
The decision moves the struggling college closer to becoming a [...]

Mindful Learning

Below I have posted info on a podcast that beautifully critiques my gripe with math class, particularly the new requirement of doing home work on what is called My Math Lab. You will hear more on My Math Lab in the future to be sure.
via http://www.thepsychfiles.com/2008/04/01/episode-53-mindful-learning-nclb-and-the-true-foundations-of-success/
Tired of rote memorization? Tired of NCLB? Try mindful learning. [...]

Vote for our video

Wow!
What  busy semester this has been. I will catch up over winter break on whats been going on and maybe I can get to posting my schooling process, financial aid and all that.
For now check out this video that I and several other students worked on. It came out pretty good, I am happy with [...]

A problem from Chinese mathematician Chang Tsang (died 152 B.C.):

A problem from Chinese mathematician Chang Tsang (died 152 B.C.): Suppose there are a number of rabbits and pheasants in a cage. In all, there are 35 heads and 94 feet. How many rabbits and pheasants are there?

Complaining (or how to pour ten gallons of shit into a five gallon bucket)

This summer’s math class taught me a lot of things. The main one is that I shouldn’t complain. Complaining only wastes valuable time that could be spent practicing math. Math after all is a large part practicing formulas and making sure you carefully follow all the steps needed in order to solve the problem that [...]

been a long time

It has been so long since I even considered posting to this blog. I guess that is because I am not able to continue it as I had envisioned it, but I can still post about what is going on and what I am doing in my bioregion.
I have been very busy for the past [...]