Author: bluesanta

Over the last two weeks I made progress in overcoming the financial challenges associated with teaching. Here’s a brief update on recent events.

As I attempt to gain a position of stability as an English Language Arts instructor, I am besought with challenges. There are too many to list here. What I want to do for myself is to create a simple picture in my mind of a successful outcome.

In this blog post, I explain some basic financial parameters of working as an English Language Arts public-school teacher in Tok, Alaska, and show how it relates to my situation. In discussing these aspects of my situation, you’ll get an idea of the challenge that I must overcome.

Appreciated Support Readers of my web series, “A Financial Challenge of a Teacher,” may be interested to support me in my quest. There are a great many ways you can help. Like, Comment, Subscribe, and Share A simple way to help is to follow along, provide feedback on my content, and share my story with… Continue reading Appreciated Support

Introduction Hello and welcome to this web series, “A Financial Challenge of a Teacher.” This blog post provides an introduction and helpful information for readers. What is this series about? I am a middle-school teacher based in Tok, Alaska. I teach English Language Arts and this is my second year as a public-school teacher. The… Continue reading Introduction to A Financial Challenge of a Teacher

Blog Series Recap Part 1 (click here to read): Becoming acquainted with Dr. Lawlor’s robotics experiments at UAF. Part 2 (click here to read): Writing a C++ script to collect data from the robot and insert it into the PostreSQL database. Part 3 (click here to read): Creating a Jupyter Notebook script to display the… Continue reading Arctic Miner – Part 5

Blog Series Recap Part 1 (click here to read): Becoming acquainted with Dr. Lawlor’s robotics experiments at UAF. Part 2 (click here to read): Writing a C++ script to collect data from the robot and insert it into the PostreSQL database. Part 3 (click here to read): Creating a Jupyter Notebook script to display the… Continue reading Arctic Miner – Part 4

Blog Series Recap Part 1 (click here to read): How I became acquainted with Dr. Lawlor’s robotics experiments at UAF. Part 2 (click here to read): Writing a C++ script to collect data from the robot and insert it into the PostreSQL database. Visualizing the Collected Data With data propagating into our database, we can… Continue reading Arctic Miner – Part 3

A Brief Recap Previously, in Part 1 of this blog series, I explained how I was hired by Dr. Lawlor at UAF to work as an assistant on his arctic mining robot. Choosing Data Visualization Once I had a chance to catch my bearings in this new environment, we discussed what part of the project… Continue reading Arctic Miner – Part 2

For over a decade I made my living as a visual artist, primarily through illustration. I’m not looking for work as an illustrator at this time, but I would like to integrate my sense of design with my other pursuits, especially data-driven storytelling.