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How to Make a Clean Version of Any Song
Sometimes a song just isn’t appropriate to play on your radio show or in your classroom due to inappropriate language. Here is a quick and easy way to make a clean version of any song. The first thing you need to do is download and install Audacity. It is a free sound recording program that…
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Inspiring Tale From the Classroom – A Student’s Resiliency
Voltaic Systems Backpack (Photo credit: Wikipedia) A fellow teacher sent me an email and asked if I could share this story with my readers. I think you’ll appreciate it as it is both heart-wrenching and heart-warming. It’s nice to hear these kinds of stories. For security and professional reasons, I am not going to divulge any…
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Teaching Tip – Clothespins and Binder Rings
Clothespins and binder rings are quite handy to have around the classroom. They are relatively inexpensive and can be used throughout the entire school year without having to replace them. Here’s a way to assign your students to reading centres for the day. All you need to do is write the name of a student on…
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The Hunger Games Don’t Satiate (What Else is on the Menu?)
Cover of The Hunger Games I felt compelled to read The Hunger Games based on all the hype the young adult series of books has been garnering. Many of the students in my school have read the trilogy and were very excited about the release of the movie last week. So, I thought I should…
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Chasing Content – April 2011
Image via Wikipedia It’s the first of the month. Time for Chasing Content, that monthly feature that has us looking at what this month had in store for us last year. Spin that record back! Read all of the posts from last April or just these awesome ones! A Victorious Script Frenzy – I’ve participated…
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Friday Night Lights – The Mixtape
I wanted to pay tribute to one of the finest television programs I have ever seen. Friday Night Lights is set in a small Texas town that is completely dedicated to, and obsessed, with high school football. I never watched the show during its original run but I recently discovered it on DVD. By the…
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Women in Hip-Hop Mixset 2
This is the second mixset that Gamma Krush did for our 2nd annual International Women’s Day Spectacular for DOPEfm. You can download it for free or stream it with the player below. We celebrated the day by dedicating all seven hours of our programming to the Women in Hip-Hop. If you missed the show or if you…
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How to Beat Match and Mix Like a Pro
Beat matching is the art of laying two tracks over top of each other when transitioning between songs in a DJ set. It’s a difficult task and several things need to fall in to place to make a seamless mix. First, the two songs should be fairly close in tempo. You can sometimes judge this by looking…
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The Book Whisperer – Get Your Students Reading!
The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Read in Every Child by Donalyn Miller is an amazing book. She writes . . . The only groups served by current trends to produce endless programs for teaching reading are the publishing companies who make billions of dollars from their programs and tests. I’ve know that for a…
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Silent Cacophony Turns 5!
In March of 2007 I started this blog with a very specific goal. I wanted to become a published author and thought it would be a great idea to establish a presence online. So I started this blog with the goal and desire to become a published author within five years. Well, tomorrow, this little blog…