by Jeff Williams 
Scott Elias over at Do I Dare Disturb the Universe? had a great post  a while back about Roadblocks (meaning teachers who are not only always negative, but whose prefessional decisions end up damaging  their students’ lives) and how to deal with these - ahem!! - teachers.
So it got me thinking. How DO you keep a [...]

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OK, OK, I admit it. I TEACH LIFE LESSONS IN MY CLASSROOM.
There, I said it, and I am not ashamed. I have sometimes been
accused of spending too much time on them and not enough on the
standards. I know what you are saying, “stop spending time teaching the
kids responsibility, and what to expect in life, preparing [...]

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I have discovered a new web browser, Flock. It is THE browser for people who live on the web. It incorporates your blog (Now you don’t even have to go to your blog to post new. Just set up your blog in the browser and you can create, edit, upload… ALL right in the browser. [...]

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As usual, I start looking for one thing, and an hour later after starting out on a movie review for the latest incarnation (or “incarceration”?) of the latest Resident Evil movie and ending up on a blog about flannel… I forget about what I was looking for in the first place. However, I want to [...]

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I’m always looking for new and exciting tools to use in the classroom. About a month ago I came across a website called voicethread. Now this is one of the coolest things I have seen in… oh, at least a week!
What it does is allow you to upload a picture and then narrate the picture [...]

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