Johnson & Orders: Outside the Box

No matter how you're celebrating V-Day 2018, we hope you'll enjoy this compilation of love, laughter, and advice from the staff and students of WMHS. Thanks for sharing this Hallmark holiday with us... and keep it OTB!

BOOM! These are quick, "bite-sized" episodes that explore interesting words in about three minutes each. Today we discuss "canon" (not "cannon") and who decides what's hot and what's not.

Music credit: Hamilton: An America Musical. Performances by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., Phillipa Soo, and Jonathan Groff. Atlantic Records, 2015.

Gotta love snow in Moco, and #MoCoSnow! Turn your jammies inside out and tune in... thanks for another little breather, Muhkips!

(And if you haven't yet, check out @MCPSsnow and @TheMoCoShow on Twitter and elsewhere!)

Photo credit: Angie. “Snow day Superstitions.” Angies Grapevine, 7 Jan. 2015, angiesgrapevine.wordpress.com/2015/01/07/snow-day-superstitions/.

Is it live, or is it Memorex? We hash out the struggle to be "in the moment" and have authentic interactions, in the face of a million distractions. (Also, Johnson eats a tiny portion of pasta.)

Special thanks to Mike Milosh and NPR's "All Songs Considered," and apologies for the weird audio glitch around 15:30 -- just another reminder of how much we rely on technology!

You can check out the entire NPR Mike Milosh interview here: https://tinyurl.com/y722rbly

Film sound clip (borrowed under Fair Use): Chazelle, Damien, director. La La Land. Summit Entertainment, 2016.

Photo credit: Kanellos, Michael. “Can Sound Waves Reduce Power Consumption?” Gtm, Greentech Media, 1 Mar. 2010, www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/can-sound-waves-whack-power-consumption#gs.N8GScy8.

How does my "Snooze" button keep me down? Johnson shares some sleep cycle science, and applies it to our waking lives. (Featuring special guest Roc, as himself.)

Not about to be "grounded" by today's school closing, we convene in the home studio to discuss some books that have us thinking about winning, learning, falling down, and getting back up.

(Special thanks to Muhkips for granting us another little break from the crazy pace of the end of the semester!)

Use your PC or PD, ASAP, to hear the latest OTB...

Photo credit: “Scrabble Tiles.” Gateway to Science - North Dakota's Hands-on Science Center, 29 Oct. 2014, online.

Discussing some resonant concepts from Clint Smith's conversation with our English RTs this week... Who we are, who we're expected to be, and how we navigate the space between.

Photo & sound clip credit: Smith, Clint. “Clint Smith.” Speaker | TED, Aug. 2014, www.ted.com/speakers/clint_smith.

Exploring interesting words and the stories behind them...

Photo credit: “Nothing To Do With Arbroath.” Thief digs car out of snow then steals it as neighbours chat to him, 11 Dec. 2010, arbroath.blogspot.com/2010/12/thief-digs-car-out-of-snow-then-steals.html.

Not to be deterred by today's school closing, we break new ground with a Skype session podcast. Fresh from winter break, we discuss our shared resolution to spend more time with the various families we belong to -- both the ones we were born into and the ones we've created.

Photo credit: CFD907. “Monster Bus.” YouTube, YouTube, 10 Jan. 2010, www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF2kFfyagbY&feature=related.