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Day 23 of posting mining earnings from the day before: 731 sats on 9Jan2024! Running total: 18,389 sats!
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Subject line: Nano tip to help your students pass their exams
It’s a scenario familiar to many: Your students take a long time to answer a few MCQs on their ISC practice paper. Or they finish it so fast that you know they just want to get it over and done with.
What’s going on? Our students haven’t “locked in” the important rules that govern pronunciation. The more persistent ones take pain to decode each syllable of every word. The less persistent ones give up and answer randomly.
How can I help? Introducing the Nano Tip Series, where Kai Le Sensei introduces a tip that will help you help your students read better and faster.
Nano Tip: When the letter ‘c’ is followed by these letters (a, o, u or anther consonant), it represents the ‘hard’ sound, /k/. Most students know this.
What they don’t know is that When the letter ‘c’ is followed by an ‘e’, ‘I’ & ‘y’, it ‘softens’ to a /s/ sound. This is true at the start of words (city, cent, cycle) and also at the end of words (rice).
What do I do with this nano tip? I picked up the following ‘c’ words from your specialisation while going through the Year 1 Orientation with 1S6. The soft ‘c’ words are highlighted in yellow, while the hard ‘c’ words are highlighted in blue.
These words may look simple, but I had to teach one 1S6 girl how to read ‘kitchen’. Always assume that they know nothing.
Mind-mapping Using Facility Services as an example, I asked ChatGPT to generate a mind map of pertinent ‘c’ words associated with electricity. These are high frequency words in the topic of electricity.
Mind-mapping is a powerful tool for students with dyslexia to build lasting connections between words.
When your students are familiar with pronunciation rules and high-frequency words, they feel more confident to pass their ISC exam.
Call to Action If you would like to work with me to a list of high frequency words categorised according to common pronunciation rules for your students, let me know. I will love to help. Xin Yi, the 2nd I/C of the Literacy Support Team, will help too.
Stay tuned for more nano tips from Kai Le Sensei!
As you're no doubt aware, every c in "Pacific Ocean" is pronounced differently.
Cool! I actually never thought of Pacific Ocean this way haha. What do you happen to know about the silent c?
I wasn't sure what that is, so I did a quick search:
It doesn't help much to point out that those are all loan words, since 90% of English is loan words.
You know what? I should have checked it myself, but I’m the kind who likes to learn incidentally from other people haha. Thanks for checking it out for me! Much appreciated
Here's the sauerkraut I just made.
https://m.stacker.news/11698
Please welcome ~Design! #384007
https://m.stacker.news/11690
So poetic how chaotic this ETF approval from the SEC is going...what a way to sign off their legacy, ushering the trojan horse into their own gates
@k00b can we get filter for revenue in statistics
Yeah it's already an issue on GH I think
These posts always bring me joy.
#383748
@sn, isn't there a way to mute "ETF" ?
Everytime I come in here I feel like Marty Mcfly entering the saloon in back to the future 3 lol... anyways I use to be kind of shy mentioning in doing bitcoin stuff recently I came out of the shell and started to embrace it as me being the bitcoin guy lol tbh it's been a complete relief and a blessing and I look forward to what's to come this is where in my heart I feel this pull and God telling me to go do it and no fear is in my heart
case you missed it:
Bitcoin Transaction Average Confirmation Time => #383041
( It's not about the average 10 minutes of block production )
Since I got into Bitcoin back in early 2020, there has not been a single day where I haven't thought incessantly about it.
114 days ago i lost my cowboy hat...
Well, if have been doing it everyday since 2020 and still haven’t got addicted I guess you aren’t likely to…. lol
Still need fees to come down. So many utxos to consolidate lol oops
I am forever grateful I did this a year ago. Hope fees calm down for you (but I suspect not!!)
Yeah I used my wallet to create sub accounts to pay for stuff in the near to medium term and now I’m like ehh all these small utxos haha went to go consolidate I’m like yikes.
Keep in mind that too much consolidation is bad for privacy when you spend these utxos in the future.
I try to have utxos of all sizes. But it's a trade-off between tx fees and privacy.
Damn trade-offs, why can't things just be perfect.
But we shouldn't use onchain for spending anyway, I guess.
True maybe I’ll just leave it be. But it’s in a messy set up. They are all in 2of2 multisig addresses this making it more expensive on chain
Howdy gang!!! Middle of the week and time to reflect on our strategies and see if we are getting the desired results, I apologize for writing so late in the day (noon here). Hope your day is going amazing and you're going strong, remember that you're important and what you do matters my friend. May your day be productive, successful and profitable. Keep on keeping on!! Be well and stay frosty gang!
Howdy coach. Hope you are well.
All is fantastic my friend!!! Appreciate it!! May yours be amazing as well
Gotta keep on keeping on….
The only way my friend, cheers!!
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/industry-events/pleblab-announces-topbuilder-a-unique-bitcoin-competition
Howdy!
Gahhh. All day work meeting. It’s PI planning for those that work in IT. A two day marathon at work. In my free time shoveling out the snow dumping we got.
https://i.postimg.cc/pr6btvsR/lawsea.jpg
wow, many ships - even relationship is part of the merchant world so it leads to marriage licenses and certificates? 🤯
Ships (vessels) are governed by the Law of the Sea - Maritime, Admiralty, Merchant Laws In other words, by the UCC https://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc
What's the relation between the two images SAIL and SALE?
It's the same word phonetically. To put something for sale (sail). If you know most of commerce is done over the sea and the origin of commercial law, it's the same word.
I'm thinking about founding a parenting territory. Any thoughts from the saloon?
Excellent. I love giving unsolicited parenting advice.
Hopefully you aren't opposed to giving solicited parenting advice.
Not as fun but I will give it a shot. Haha.
You know I would be a regular lol
It's a good topic, but are there enough stackers interested in it? I don't think so, but I could be wrong.
Are you interested in it? I've noticed parenting posts have done pretty well, but there haven't been a ton of them.
Maybe I'll read it and take part if there's nothing else of interest, for me of course. You've touched on the right point, I think it might work if there aren't too many posts, but if there aren't many posts you'll be wasting satoshis badly because you won't get the revenue to pay for the territory. As always, I could be wrong.
I certainly don't expect it to be profitable, although it would be nice to not lose too many sats on it. My hope is that it can be a place that ties the SN community together a bit more.
I'm a big advocate for relatively high posting fees, so that might balance out the low volume.
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Those are all interesting ideas. Don't be shy about sharing your own thoughts either. Amateur opinions are always welcome.
I think there could be a lot of interesting cultural comparison discussions.
I won't shy away from sharing my theory parenting 🤓 and it's nice having a place to ask the experienced ones:)
It's our duty to clear some of the landmines for those who come after.
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Hey cowboys, I just beat my personal record, 20 days of keeping my hat on 🤠
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Yee Haw
114 💪🤠
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On the other hand I’m trying to make it to 20 days haha
The longest I've ever gone is six days without losing my hat. For me, the weekend is a break from technology. I hardly even watch television. We need that.
Wow. What do you do on the weekends such that you can take a digital detox so effectively? Hiking?
Anything outdoors without a phone is effective. But my main activity is, whenever possible, being in person with family or friends. No phones allowed :)
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https://m.stacker.news/11560
Announcing Marc Mckirahan from Kraken as a TopBuilder mentor.
⌛️Only 3 days left to apply for TopBuilder: https://buff.ly/48aCp6L.
#Bitcoin #TopBuilder #BuildOnBitcoin
Yeehaa, got the half-marathon run in. Will post proof of work later.
Yes David all of us in the great white north feel very sorry you had to run in (checks comment) 25ºC / 77ºF "heat", while we bask in negative temps, but congrats on the run and great job on the satsraiser.
🥶 If only there was a way to transport energy at the speed of light to be able to share some warmth with you…
The sun is pretty good at that, unfortunately it doesn't like us this time of year.
Great job 🫡
Good morning Cowboys. Black ice out this way my son gets to hang out with Dad today.
Stack Sats and stay humble.
Today, WP stuff... #383130
SAT vs USD dilemma
[Suggestion] It should be possible to repost at least once without creating duplicate posts.
it will be nice to have the option to boost posts always available, not only in that 10min inunitial timeframe
What would be the advantage of that?
to boost and re-boost post anytime, indefinitely. So for example, instead of having millions @ad's posts saying and spamming with the same message over an over again, you have one message that go up and down in the home (or specific territory) feed... until the creator get:
How is it already day 10 of the New Year? Crazy how time can just pass us by.
Half of my life I spent doin' time for some other fucker's crime The other half found me stumbling 'round drunk on Burgundy wine
Beware of being the roller when there's nothing left to roll...
The first step is to recognize the problem. And I think you've already done that.
Yes
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🍿 + watching SEC memes
https://m.stacker.news/11545
It's a government agency, what do you expect?
The password is probably a post-it note on the coffee mug on some old womans desk called Debra.
Oddly spicific. Put a smile on my face, thanks.
https://www.copytrans.net/app/uploads/sites/3/2022/09/main-picture-meme-compressed.jpg
good one!
Day 270 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k.
...and 70 push-ups. (30 - 20 - 20)
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You brought your cowboy hat back and bumped me down a spot 😭
I shall not rest until @siggy47's hat is MINE
I shall defend this hat with my life.
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I was afraid it would come to this.
Down with siggy
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Day 51 of horseposting everyday
Horse Stance: 2 minutes x 2 set
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https://m.stacker.news/11551
max push-ups:30
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You nearly got out of these… good job!
I would say that yesterday's drama was very much worthy of 69.
Anywho, I'm going to go dark for the next 24 hours. This ETF soap opera is extremely entertaining, but it's distracting me from work and I gotta stack while the going's still good.
I stand by my bet that we hit ATH before halving. Maybe even before day 300 if the inflow estimates I've seen are accurate.
I failed.
Doh!
this place is too fun
It is. Although I worry I am here just procrastinating - I once watched a pigeon trying to eat a peanut M&M for 5 mins… that was clearly about avoiding work.
Focus on work :)
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with all the hype and noise these days, sometimes I don't even know what's there to happy about - not like many people and shops are accepting Bitcoin and we can pay everything in sats?
oh, and the worst part is getting more "expensive" to stack sats.
You are right... the key is to on-boarding more shops.
Olá Natalia! Don't you know the answer to what I asked you yesterday?
missed it, and just replied:)