Teaching
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Bragging Time – Again
With the first video reflection due this past Monday, I want to share with everyone some of the hard work my kids are doing. These […]
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Standardized Testing – By Me and Others
It’s testing season, and so I’m thinking about testing a lot. Thankfully, in my state, we are done with English tests. However, I am missing […]
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Working on #TEDxWOHS Outside
When I got back to my room from lunch today, a couple of my students point out how lovely the weather is, and say “We […]
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Bragging Time
We are a week in to our TEDx project, and my students have made their first posts on their blogs. It has been so much […]
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Everything Wrong With Internet Filtering
Ran into my first major problem with my TEDx project today. Well, I say “major problem,” but I really mean “minor but recurring problem requiring […]
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TEDxWOHS Parent Responses
Yesterday, as you probably already know, I introduced the TEDx project to my students.. In addition, I sent an email to their parents that included […]
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Teacher’s Throwing Out Grades
Last weekend, I listened to Starr Sackstein (@mssackstein) talk with Nicholas Provenzano about the No Grades Movement. This isn’t the first time I’ve heard about […]
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TED Talk Project – A Student Experiment
As I enter my final weeks in the classroom, I find myself wanting to make a splash. Thanks to inspiration from Nicholas Provenzano (@thenerdyteacher) and his #NerdyCast, […]
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Cool Tool for School – EdPuzzle.com
Today, I spent some time using EdPuzzle, and I wanted to share my experience with it. EdPuzzle is a website that allows you to “Make […]
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Social Media in School
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about social media being used in school and in the classroom. There is great benefit to student use of […]
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Harsh Conversations With Myself
It has been an interesting year for me. For a couple of personal reasons (the details of which I don’t really want to get into […]
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Audiobooks: Are They Really Reading?
Despite what the title may imply, this post simply will not answer that question, partly because I don’t actually have an answer and mostly because […]
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10 Reasons You Should Do NaNoWriMo
As you all know, I’m a huge supporter of NaNoWriMo and The Office of Letters and Lights. They posted this on their blog today, […]