This has been a great week. I’m having more and more teachers approach me and ask how they can make a wiki. I knew the fire would catch on, but I had no idea how quickly it would spread! The wikis range in ability, like our kids, and some teachers have put in quite a [...]
A Good Kid Lost. That was the headline that made me cry. A kiddo that I had taught in 7th grade had been murdered on Saturday night. Seventeen years old shot by another seventeen year old. Apparently, they had been hanging out playing video games when Antonie Smith told Tony Johnson to give him his [...]
I had a fabulous week! It began Tuesday with a 6th grade math class. I taught 3 classes of Scientific Notation using the SmartBoard, except our SmartBoard was on the flitz. So, I used the SmartBoard notebook to teach. What fun! The kids were great and I enjoyed ‘riding the bicycle’ again. The teacher wanted [...]
Many of you probably do not know that I publish a monthly newsletter for my teachers. You can view my previous months newsletters on this page of my blog. I have struggled with publisher (urggg) and yes, publisher won. This time I went out on a limb and tried PowerPoint. Much, much easier! Only problem, [...]
Friday, August 31st was Blog Day 2007. This was something new to me since I wasn’t even blogging at this time last year. Bloggers around the world are being encouraged to highlight five newer blogs that might target a different audience than their own. Larry Ferlazzo nominated me as one of his five. WOW! What an [...]
