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Update On Status Of Our 1:1 Laptop Program
Well we just finished the second week of school. I got a brand new set of 4th graders and they are raring to go. My 50 year old school got a complete overhaul this summer. The walls of each classroom that were concrete block are now covered in a material...
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Fri, Sep 11 2009 5:29 PM
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Language Intense
One of the benefits of being part of a 1:1 program the last 3 years has been how language intense the experience has been. This is valuable no matter who your students are, but for my second language elementary school students, it has been even more than...
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Tue, Sep 29 2009 10:13 PM
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Class Survey - My New 4th Grade Class
I decided to do this quick assessment piece with my students this year to get a sense of what resources they have, (I asked the blogging question because we will be blogging this year again and wondered if anyone knew about them), and their general knowledge...
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Tue, Sep 01 2009 5:13 PM
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How Can This Be?!
Today was the 1st day of school. How can it be that I’m already 3 weeks behind?! I mean really, that’s what teaching is like too often these days! How do we explain that? Learning is messy! Blogged with the Flock Browser Tags: education Read...
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Mon, Aug 31 2009 8:07 PM
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What a Hoot!
Last Friday my wife and I were invited up to Galena Creek Park just outside of Reno, Nevada, to participate in a program designed to inform the general public and educators about the learning opportunities provided there by the Great Basin Institute....
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Wed, Aug 13 2014 8:39 PM
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Lake Tahoe Launch … Messy and Worth It – The Short Version
So after last week’s debacle … we learned to be patient and wait for better wind conditions. Here’s the short version of what happened. We inflated on the beach at DL Bliss State Park: Paddle boarded the balloon out where the...
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Thu, Jun 26 2014 9:48 AM
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Getting to Know You
Each year one of my favorite first week of school activities helps me figure out my first quarter seating arrangement while also helping students get to know one another. I’ve done this with 3rd graders through seventh graders. I don’t …...
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Wed, Aug 31 2011 9:34 PM
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Send Your Students’ (and anyone else’s) High Hopes Up High
Note: If after reading this post you decide to participate leave your “High Hopes” Here. Doug Taylor and I started the High Hopes Project back in 2010, when we were both teaching 4th grade. Doug had seen this article about … Continue...
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Mon, Sep 01 2014 11:49 AM
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As many as 1,000 parents, teachers unleash frustration at Palm Beach County School Board meeting
Was originally made aware of this by teacher Lee Kolbert over Twitter. She was monitoring the meeting and sending out numerous updates. From the Palm Beach Post: As many as 1,000 parents, teachers unleash frustration at Palm Beach County School Board...
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Wed, Oct 21 2009 9:17 PM
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Embed of My TEDx Talk
You’ll have to pardon me here. I originally meant to embed this video in my last post, but at the time I was at the airport and couldn’t make it work, so here is my TEDxDenver ED presentation embeded … unless of course it doesn’t...
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Thu, Jul 15 2010 7:49 PM
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New York Times: Schools For Tomorrow
I was informed recently that I am a speaker (a member of a panel) at the New York Times sponsored “Schools For Tomorrow” – Bringing Technology Into The Classroom Conference. They bill it as: “Technology is transforming how we live...
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Wed, Aug 31 2011 10:11 PM
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Our Challenger Space Shuttle Memory
On this 25th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster I’m sharing an incredible post from the past. My classroom was “graced” by Christa McAuliffe’s Mom, Grace Corrigan. Note that since this post we have also posted...
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Fri, Jan 28 2011 7:06 PM
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Yes, I’m Still Here
Like many bloggers I’ve been steadily blogging less frequently. Not by choice or plan, I’m just busier than ever, writing more than ever, just in other venues. Among other things I’ve co-written a book on using blogs in school that is...
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Thu, Jan 20 2011 7:08 PM
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What Happened To My Pedagogy?
Several classroom teachers in my PLN have decided to share out our experiences this year with “educational reform”. Here’s one that published so far. And I’d encourage others to share as well (let’s hear the “Good”...
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Thu, Apr 12 2012 12:18 PM
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NSTA 2013
I’m in San Antonio, Texas, this week to attend the National Science Teachers Association conference. I might help during a presentation or 2, but other than that I get to be a conference attendee without …...
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Thu, Apr 11 2013 6:22 AM
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