Mister Norlem

11/13/2025

It's a special time of year... the time of year we are all thankful for...
HAND TURKEY DAYS!

11/05/2025

We're getting a little dark in Digital Media (again) today. 😮☠️

10/23/2025

Found this very relatable comment teasing an educational article in email this morning:

"AI chatbots are like students who don't do the reading and raise their hand anyway." 🙋

I tried to share the sentiment with one of my AP classes and found that I am better trained to prompt the chatbots to get okay results than they are to give them. 🤷

08/20/2024

08/12/2024

Starting my 17th year teaching before the middle of August so Bomb Pops and surf rock to kick things off!

04/24/2024

Happy National Pig In A Blanket Day!
(or as I call it "explain to my Texas students that the things with sausage they call Kolaches are either pigs-in-blankets or klobasneks, kolaches are sweet pastries... day")

This explains it for those that don't quite follow me:
https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/not-sweet-not-kolache-klobasnek/

It took moving out of state for this East Texan to discover that my favorite savory snack wasn’t what I thought it was.

04/16/2024

Celebrating Selena Day in my classroom by shuffling her music catalog all day. This has caused a number of my students trauma that I was not expecting as they hear the music played for Saturday morning cleaning (at least) but they are not getting any of their chores done.

04/09/2024

Fun to see co-workers in the news :)

Students poured out of the Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD school to watch the eclipse for one minute, 46 seconds.

02/27/2024

Looking forward to the Total Solar Eclipse on Monday, April 8th. Its path will go over us here in Texas. Check out some interactive map info here:

2024 April 8 Total Solar Eclipse in Mexico, the USA or Canada by Xavier Jubier

10/31/2023

Freeze warning in North Texas so I had to bring my babies inside.

09/29/2023

Digital Media Club's annual generic mums and garters are available now!