Today marks the first day of the first middle school 1001 Tales writing workshop! Our students have just been introduced to the project and will be working with students in Serbia and Canada to produce myths and legends for the alien king about Malaysia. If you are a middle school teacher, and would like to…
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Crazy isn’t it? I love technology and I love the web, but sometimes I just want to lie in bed / on the couch / on the floor with a real book full of pages I can touch and turn. The lack of distractions, the ability to stop multi-tasking, the connection with the past –…
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MissProfe is reflecting on her role in the classroom after reading Kelly Christopherson’s post about the same topic. Although I left a comment for MissProfe I wanted to post it here because I realized that I’m not just a teacher, I’m three teachers: I’m a technology teacher, an international school teacher and a middle school…
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While searching for an image for my last post, I came across this picture. I thought it was pretty nifty, so I checked out the root of the link and found The Opte Project: “Mapping the Internet in a Single Day.” The technology behind the project is totally over my head, but I thought the…
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Last night we went out with a group of teachers from school. While we try to avoid talking about school on the weekend, it invariably comes up since we all work together. Last night we had an especially good conversation about technology, specifically blogging, and I realized that these casual conversations are, often times, even…
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