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Archive for August, 2012

New Year

August12

There are several things that I want to explore with my team.  We are an amazing team, with a huge number of experiences and a wealth of knowledge.  In our first team meeting, I know we need to go over rules, essential agreements, and the other day to day minutia.  But I really want to inspire… to […]

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Class Blog!

August8

The class blog has been created, and is going to be in full swing in less than a month.  This “old school” view with books and paper, shall be completely banished from my classroom…. FOREVER!!   Visit it at Living, and Loving, Science.  I am hoping it will be everything I wanted… and then some!! […]

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Thing 17- Podcasts

August3

Auditory learning has never been for me, but I completely respect that it is the method of choice for some.  With podcasts, I have used  with “flipping” lessons and have gathered podcasts/ videocasts and have used them in a data base as references for the students.  Most of the students enjoy the videocasts.  I have […]

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Thing 16

August3

While I would like to sugar coat it, I just can’t.  Classroom 2.0 is a bomb for me.  The THE bomb, but a bomb.  As in, YUCK!  I have been a member for more than a year.  Possibly two or more.  The reality is that I never use it, and when I do, there isn’t anything useful […]

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Thing 15- Diigo

August3

LiveBinder or Diigo?  I can’t say that I am sold on any one way of saving articles or blog posts to read later.  I can see that this would be a way for me to help my students save their sights for referring back to later as we do more research for project based learning.  I know […]

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