For the first time in what seems like ages, my wife and I went to the movies on a Saturday night. We were taking advantage of AMC Theater’s offer that allows teacher who teach in grades k through 12 the opportunity to view Freedom Writers for free. It was a good movie with a good [...]
Entries from January 28th, 2007
If only the “Freedom Writers” had access to Web 2.0
January 28th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized
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Reflections on Reflections – Creating a Movie using Still Images and Sound
January 23rd, 2007 · 1 Comment · teaching and learning
Over the past five school weeks, I have been supporting our United States History teacher, Kevin Randolph, and the juniors in his class on a project, entitled, Reflections:What Does Vietnam Mean? It was invigorating working with Kevin and the students on this project. I was able to introduce the students to a use of a [...]
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Personal Learning – I Created my First Podcast
January 15th, 2007 · No Comments · teaching and learning
And better yet, I learned how to structure the rss feed so that it can be subscribed to via iTunes! Some of you may be thinking, “so what. Big deal. I have been doing that for months or years now. He is a Directory of Academic Technology, he should have known this.” To some extent, [...]
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Educating Parents Through Participation
January 15th, 2007 · 3 Comments · teaching and learning
Because of the personal and professional learning journey that I have been on these last two years and the success stories that I have heard from the k12 Online Conference, I decided to try something this winter. It is during this time of the year that I typically hold some kind of seminar or class [...]
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Back in the Saddle Again
January 15th, 2007 · No Comments · teaching and learning
Like many, we returned back to school on Monday, January 8th. I always find the first week back after an extended break challenging. This year was no different, as I had multiple projects starting and there was a significant amount of preparation that was required in order to get these projects off of the group. [...]
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