February 2012
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Creative Education: The Excitement Over Digital... →
creative-education: Digital textbooks are in the news. However, they conveniently let a lot of people off the hook by avoiding a disruption of the learning paradigm we all know. Textbook companies know how to make textbooks. They are excited because they have finally designed a profitable business model for… I understand, yet politely disagree with 75% of this.  I find this opinion...
Feb 1st
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January 2012
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Jan 30th
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Theft seems to be on the rise among the Tumblr...
Could it be that winter makes kids bored and they need an outlet?  This is long so if you want to a long story short skip to the last paragraph. I’m fairly positive that a student went through my purse on Thursday.  Combine this with the fact that 10 of 15 of my Papermate Flair grading pens were stolen by one of my 7th graders last week and you have a recipe on how to worry me all day at...
Jan 28th
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Jan 28th
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Reasons why tonight is awesome.
1) I’m baking parmesan crusted chicken nuggets. Win. 2) I started drinking wine prior to 5 PM. It was 5 o’clock somewhere. 3) I parked directly in front of the apartment. If you’ve ever witnessed or survived Chicago parking you’ll know why that’s important. 4) When I went outside the sears tower was lit up red and white. Also awesome. 5) I’m going to...
Jan 28th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
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Art with little ones.
I’m thinking about doing a three week unit on Art with my little ones.  My little ones being the 3rd and 4th graders.  Okay, so, they’re not that little, but I have them once a week so I’m thinking about studying three different artists and their styles of art.  Very basic, but I think they will have some fun with this.  My thoughts are to introduce the artist with a video and a...
Jan 23rd
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Jan 21st
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Jan 20th
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Jan 20th
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Jan 19th
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How & How Not to Teach Elementary & Middle School...
I’ve started using the SPLOME technique with my 5th - 8th graders and we are working on compiling a project on a famous person in history or pop culture. I’ve mentioned SPLOME before, but for all intensive purposes I’ll share again.  SPLOME stands for set goals, plan, link, organize, monitor, and evaluate.  I found this technique in an eBook I ordered from Scholastic’s...
Jan 18th
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Something I forgot!
Week 1…  Get conned into buying girl scout cookies from student within 15 minutes of meeting her.  Check. 
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Jan 16th
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Jan 11th
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Things you shouldn't get asked on your first day...
“Are you related to Ron Weasley?” - Student  “NO.” - Me  & other statements, such as…. “You’re hair is red.”  “Is that your real hair color?”  “Are you Irish? You have to be Irish.”  “Do you have kids?” “Is this a free day?”  “Your hair is red, you’re a ginger… oops,...
Jan 11th
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Ready, Set, GO, GO, GO!
“Come in tomorrow to observe the Jr. High with the classroom teacher.” - Principal  “Okay, sounds good. See you tomorrow.” - Me Next day 9 AM. Text from classroom teacher  “Hey! I won’t be in today, you’ll do great!.”  I wasn’t ready to start today, but I guess this’ll have to do. I’m nervous and I never get nervous.  Their...
Jan 10th
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Jan 10th
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New Job
I’m finally starting! I was on “call” because the teacher I am taking over for is working all the way up to her due date. (yikes!)  I went in today to finish filling out my paperwork and was told that she’s ready to pop any day now.  Long story short, I’m not only going in tomorrow, but I’m taking over.  Which means… I have lessons to plan by tomorrow for...
Jan 10th
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Future Teachers
(Student Teachers)  I bid you good luck tomorrow & for the following weeks. You’ll do great!  If you’re wondering what to wear tomorrow, wear a smile all day long. It’s the only thing they’re going to remember. 
Jan 9th
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Jan 7th
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I'm pretty sure
I need leather leggings. 
Jan 7th
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Jan 7th
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Jan 7th
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New: Lesson Planning
I’m still not sure when I will take over this maternity leave position. (Either this coming Tuesday, or the Tuesday after depending on when she has the baby) I have this feeling that it’s going to be around the 18th, but I feel like I need to start lesson planning now.   For my Junior High students I am determined to use KidsBlog and get them to express their ideas with a little...
Jan 6th
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Art Set App
Art Set:  The Art Set App for iPad is only 99 cents and is worth about 10x that. It’s a great app that lets you experiment (or if you’re an artist, actually create beautiful pictures) using various different tools.  A great investment, I’m sure older students would love to use this app. Especially those interested in art. I know my gifted program students would have loved...
Jan 5th
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Jan 4th
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HIMYM
Did HIMYM just quote my tumblr name?  Not that Ghandi isn’t a pretty popular guy and all, but that was a cool thing to wake up to. 
Jan 3rd
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Jan 3rd
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