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• Learning and Planning during the break!!! January 2, 2012
  How am I spending my break? Reading, Planning, Reading, Planning and a little Grading (yes I still have a few things to grade). My parish is starting a new teacher evaluation process next year and I am so incredibly lucky to be part of the pilot – I did inject a slight bit of sarcasm More > […]
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• Is your computer organized? January 2, 2012
  We have just recently gotten new computers at school and I am trying to keep my new one from looking like my old one. Old Desktop New Desktop Behind the scenes I have folders setup to drop my documents into So far, so good, I have a place for everything and everything is in its More > […]
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• Searching for Me January 2, 2012
  Google/You Tube allows you to create a Search Story Video.  Put in several search terms, preview the results and Voila you have just created a video that displays your digital footsteps told through Google’s eyes.    *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*   Create your own https://searchstories-intl.appspot.com/en-us/creator/ Vimeo version for those barred from youtube. […]
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• Bigger is not always better December 16, 2011
  I have recently started tutoring for Rocket Learning and I accomplished more in 1 hour with those students than I have all week in my regular class. Why? Well, my guess would be that it is a lot easier to have productive lessons and meaningful conversations with 5 students than it is with 34 students. More > […]
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• Season’s Greetings to my PLN December 11, 2011
  Get your twitter mosaic here.   These educators, organizations, news providers, administrators, forward thinkers, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, sons, and daughters are a part of my PLN and I want to wish each and everyone of them a Happy and Safe Holiday Season. Thank you for your words of wisdom, support and resources.   I More > […]
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• Be a part of the AfterGlow December 11, 2011
  Please mark your calendars and adjust your schedules to join presenters, participants, and organizers of the 2011 K-12 Online Conference in an “AfterGlow” Closing Live Event on Monday, December 12th at 6:00pm PT / 7:00pm MT / 8:00pm CT / 9:00pm ET. If you’re located outside North American timezones, please use this timeanddate.com link (2:00 More > […]
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• I lost a student Wednesday December 11, 2011
  Wednesday night, I lost a student. He did not drop out, he did not move to another city or state, he did not transfer to another school, he was not suspended, he was not expelled – he was shot and killed not far from his house. He was a 9th grader, he was 16, he More > […]
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• Create, Produce and Publish December 7, 2011
  This post contains links to resources related to my presentation. I enjoyed presenting some of my favorite Tech Tools to the online K12 Conference Audience and I hope that everyone gets a chance to play with at least one of the toys (tools). Some of the tools that I talked about are ones that I use More > […]
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• Animoto > PowerPoint December 6, 2011
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• Facilitators r Rockstars December 2, 2011
  K12 Online Conference to check out – Hardware is Not Enough – The Teacher/Facilitator Partnership by Kim Cofino (@mscofino)  and Chrissy Hellyer (@nzchrissy.)  Their presentation is part of the Team Captain’s strand of the conference and they discussed examples, resources, strategies, processes and resources that can aid the relationship between teacher and […]
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