No, not the holiday season, the recruitment season! Every year around this time, international school teachers start to think about what they might like to do next August. Right now teachers all around the world are deciding if they will stay another year, or move on to a new school. They are looking at employment…
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First the sixth graders started blogging for Ms. N’s social studies class, then they learned how to use wikis for Ms. G’s science class, then the eighth grade English teacher (Mr. R) saw the potential of blogging and got the eighth graders started, then the enthusiasm of Mr. R caught on in seventh grade, so…
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I thought I would share a recent e-mail from our grade 8 English teacher, Mr. R, who just started blogging. Mr. R sent this e-mail to all middle/high school staff just a few days after he started blogging with his students: Well MS/HS teachers it was only a matter of time that the enthusiasm and…
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I just discovered a nifty tool called coComment today thanks to Karyn’s blog. Basically, coComment keeps track of all your online conversations for you. Every time you post a comment on a blog, coComment records your comment and then tracks all following comments to that post. All of your “conversations” are listed on one page….
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In addition to middle school IT integration, I also teach discrete IT exploratory classes for all middle school students. These exploratories run for 9 weeks (1 quarter), and are intended to expose students to new ideas in a fun and relaxed way. Due to the nature of the class, we usually only manage one or…
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