Blogging about crypto as I learn
6 Aug 2023 1 minute read 3 comments cryotosensei
ChatGPT has dramatically transformed my life, be it personally or professionally. As a frugal father, I regard it as the paid version of Grammarly that I hesitate to pay for.As an avid writer, I love how it takes my writing in new directions and elev...
4 Aug 2023 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei
Actually I wasn’t going to do a review of this book, but I visited Anderson Secondary last Friday and was kinda entranced by its wall mural on William Shakespeare. This gave me the push to write about how I felt about this book. This was the first Ma...
2 Aug 2023 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei
As part of the semestral assessments, I had to conduct a speaking assessment for my students. To my horror, I realised that many of them lacked the basic vocabulary to give a decent answer. There were also the better students who resorted to stock ph...
24 Jul 2023 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Dear teachers,Spelling Bee fever is upon us. 🐝 Some of your students are mugging for it. You’re keen to support them but don’t know how.Fret not. I’m here to support you with curated book recommendations. All books will be related to the theme of Sp...
16 Jul 2023 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei
[Why ENFPs may make fun parents] When my son said that hippos don’t actually swim because they are “too heavy”, various neuron pathways fired in my brain and I did something unprecedented. I wrote a story about Happy the Hippo that night. I finished...
15 Jul 2023 2 minute read 2 comments cryotosensei
I may just be addicted to writing children’s books. Here is my second attempt. I used Microsoft Bing to generate images for my characters; it was a fun experience! Students learn three methods to improve their spelling skills: 1) word-within-a-word 2...
13 Jul 2023 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Step 1: Open a Google Docs document, go to "Tools" in the menu, and select "Voice typing." It allows you to speak and automatically transcribes your speech into text. It’s funny that you asked this question because I did something refreshingly diff...
10 Jul 2023 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Sending this out to the entire school staff later. I liked it so much that I couldn’t resist sharing it here. In another life, I would be a columnist. True story. During my latest work review, my Reporting Officer asked why I often misspelt Google a...
10 Jul 2023 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
My son’s love affair with hippos shows no sign of abating. Just yesterday, after our visit to the zoo, he told his mummy that hippos can’t swim because they are “too heavy” (exact words). For someone whose main language is Japanese, he must be so pas...
9 Jul 2023 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei
Dedicated to my son who loves hippos Once upon a time, there was a hippo called Happy. But Happy the hippo was ironically not very happy. You see, he spent a great deal of time at the animal care centre. His parents worked very hard at the zoo to ma...
