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billcalhoun.bsky.social
billcalhoun.bsky.social
@billcalhoun.bsky.social
High school physics teacher (MA), musician, Woonsocketeer (RI)
Writes about teaching & instructional design (www.whcalhoun.com)
Account suspended apparently.
January 18, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Off topic but wow that's a classic Rhode Island use of the phrase "not for nothing." (Pronounced "no' foh nu'in" in case you were wondering . . .)
January 13, 2026 at 11:52 PM
The results have been fantastic! It helps that the school issues a Chromebook to each student. They can still email each other and play video games. But the classroom climate is much more convivial and collegial. The anxiety level is way down. The whole school feels friendlier and more lively.
September 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
This describes my wife, a visual artist who, when she draws a single line, there's so much going on. I once made a video of a work in progress - I still don't understand how she got from point A to point B. A lifetime of training and seeing indeed. emilyliskerpaintings.blogspot.com/2013/06/day-...
Day of the Dead
Emily has always loved the imagery from the Mexican Day of the Dead celebrations.  This painting is based on a tiny woodcut that Emily had p...
emilyliskerpaintings.blogspot.com
September 1, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
August 18, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Reposted by billcalhoun.bsky.social
"If Artificial Intelligence is getting better and better at mimicking students’ work, this development has no impact on the value of Human Intelligence – except to give us yet another reason to make sure that humans
continue to think for ourselves."
August 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Now I can't unsee it.
August 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Sorry, I meant bolbous.
July 3, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Ah, Capt BH fast & bulbous indeed! Been a long time . . .
July 3, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Wow, like when someone is sick or has a death in the family, it feels weird (and wrong) to hit the "like" button, but what is there (aside from a full reply)?
June 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This New Englander spent a semester in Tucson when it snowed one day, a blizzard by AZ standards, enough to make snowballs and snowmen. My snowball skills were feared!
May 12, 2025 at 10:08 PM