Archive for March, 2009

Take the plunge and just try it!

After months… okay well over a year, I finally got a message from my husband on twitter. He joined! He doesn’t really get it, but he’s trying it. Last night I caught him on his phone reading another’s tweets and I thought, “he may actually be getting it. We’ll see.” He wants to understand all of this […]

Turn Off Those Darned Lights!

Here is just another reason why I want to visit Australia. Come visit me on Saturday, we’ll be dining by candlelight!

Hopefully, I can inspire some of my students to do so as well this week during our morning announcements!

Ned’s Keeper meets Ned’s Keeper

After posting yesterday, I continued to look around on TED Talks and I came across another extremely interesting video about someone trying to save my dear darling Ned and his family. I felt like I was meeting Ned’s other keeper! It was an incredible story of passion and innovation in the spirit of conservation! Better […]

A New Lesson in Oxygen… could it affect a classroom?

I just spent a few minutes watching a re-watching the latest TED Talks video. I find the topic incredibly relevant since that is the topic of next years Green 180 project… “Trees.” Kamal Meattle is talking more about the short statured ones ie. plants, that we should grow indoors to create more oxygen. I started […]

Justice for all for only 5000 hits

So my beautiful niece, Justice, spent time researching and creating this 3 minute video explaining the phrase “Justice for All.” She is competing in a contest and needs as many people as possible to view her video. Being the teacher, I would also appreciate you leaving any comments of encouragement as well. She is a smart […]

Discovery Student Adventures Website

I just can’t get this Discovery Student Adventures out of my head… Aaaaah! So, I did a search this morning on it to get the dates again and I found the new site. WOW! I felt so honored to see Phillipe Cousteau on the front of it talking. “Hey, I just had dinner with him,” […]

Next Year’s Technology Fun

It’s about that time of year were I start dreaming of next year. I have two big projects I intend to carry out next year, but I just need to do the lesson plans for them. So like all good teachers, I am procrastinating and writing in my blog. It sounded like the right thing […]

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