Privitization

I'm teaching about Special Relativity right now and one of my students asked if we were going to be learning about General Relativity.  They were a bit disappointed when I said no, so I put my blog post showing some of the math involved in General Relativity up on the projector to help them understand why we wouldn't be covering it.

Then a couple of days ago a teacher mentioned to me that he saw a student reading my blog on their laptop.  Today another student asked me who Aaron was.  I don't know if I even mentioned that the General Relativity info was on my blog, but someone caught on nonetheless and apparently quite a few students have been checking it out.

Not that anything would likely come of it, but I like to keep a little distance between my students and my private life.  Sorry for any inconvenience (e.g. no more notifications from RSS readers).  I gave permission to the handful of people that might look at this from time to time.  If you know anyone else who does, let me know.

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Kelli said…
I always like reading your thoughts! Add me, if you please.
kellilarsen@gmail.com
August 15, 2016 at 12:44 AM
Brett said…
Coming from an English teacher, I'll take that as high praise.

I actually deprivatized recently, but if I change my mind again I'll keep you in the loop.
August 15, 2016 at 6:56 AM
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