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Championship Round (Please Vote)
It is the last week of the Social Playlist Challenge. I hope you’ve been able to listen to the weekly mixtapes I made throughout November. In fact, I just couldn’t stop making them. I actually made a bonus mix that I will be posting up here next week. So stay tuned! In the meantime, please…
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Teaching Tip – History
Welcome to Teaching Tip Tuesday! Every week I share with you a tip that I hope you will find useful in your teaching. You can visit the Teaching Tips Archive to see all of the tips in the order I have posted them over the years. Please check that page as I will continue to…
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Speechless (Let’s Take Action to Make Things Better)
Sometimes we don’t stop to think about how much power our words have. It’s easy to blurt something out that you really have no right to share, something that can hurt someone else, something that is probably better left unsaid. Speechless is a novel by Hannah Harrington that explores this issue. The main character, Chelsea,…
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Chasing Content – The Best of Last December
It’s the first of the month. Time for another edition of Chasing Content, that blog feature where we look back at what was happening last year at this time. You can read all of the posts from last December. . . or just these favourites. . . Personification in Rap Music – Hip-hop has the power…
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(All I Really Want) A Mixtape for Chirstmas
All I Really Want is A Mixtape for Christmas This is the fourth and final mix for The Social Playlist Challenge by My Music Cloud. It’s been a lot of fun putting together a mixtape every week this month. This week’s challenge was to put together a playlist of songs that could be played at…
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Nothing Lasts (not even audio players)
Why doesn’t anything seem to last these days? Last year, our podcast host shut down operations and I had to find a new home for all of my audio files. In the process, some shows were lost. Today, I logged on to my favourite media player for blog posts and found this message. So, the…
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Two Down, Two More to Go (Keep Voting Please)
I have been having a lot of fun with this contest. I never even expected to win but I’ve managed to win two week’s in a row now. There are two more weeks of the contest and voting for this week’s mix ends tomorrow at midnight. Please click through and like this Facebook status to vote…
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The Power of Education (And a Great Film)
The First Grader is an amazing film about the power of education. It’s based on a true story about a primary school in Kenya. This small school is opened because of the government’s promise of free education for all. They are completely overwhelmed with students who want to learn and as such have over 200…
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Twilight Fans Win a Free eBook
A few weeks back I had the chance to interview the author of Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner: In Their Own Words. The eBook People gave me three copies of the book to give away here and those copies are still up for grabs. If you would like to get this ebook for…
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Autumn in Kains Woods (Photographic Tour)
It’s a cool morning for a run but I just discovered a new trail and I’m excited about exploring it. Welcome to Kains Woods in London, Ontario. This is the entrance to the trail just off of Westdel Bourne and Oxford Street. It’s starts out as a paved multi-use trail that is part of the…