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First Time in a Classroom? Try these Surefire Teaching Tips!
Image via Wikipedia Please welcome a special guest post from Bobbie Walker for today’s Teaching Tip Tuesday. There’s no doubting the fact that experience is the best teacher in any walk of life, and the only way to gain experience as a teacher is to start somewhere. We’re all beginners at some point of time…
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Script Frenzy: The Sequel
Script Frenzy is a friendly writing challenge where the goal is simple – write an original feature-length film in one month. I participated in the event last year for the very first time. You can read that screenplay right now if you want. It was a lot of fun writing it and I am proud of how…
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Chasing Content – April 2010
Image via Wikipedia As we look forward to all that April has in store for us this year, let’s look back at some of the great moments from last April. It’s time for “Chasing Content,” that monthly feature where we dig through the archives like the little miner from the Dig-Dug video game franchise. Remember that game? Let’s…
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300 Tapes
This crate of cassette tapes had been tucked away in the bottom of a storage closet for quite some time. This weekend, I decided to unearth these old gems. I have hundred of tapes here, many of which are hip-hop mix shows that I recorded straight from the radio. I decided that I wanted to…
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5 Word Study Strategies to Use in Your Classroom
1) Scrabble Nab-It I really like this variation of the famous Scrabble game. It is especially effective to use for the primary or junior classrooms since it doesn’t use a game board and the students don’t have to calculate scores. Each player gets a tile bag with letter tiles of that same colour. Unlike the…
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Junos Failed to Represent
When the nominations for tonight’s Juno Awards were announced way back in February, I was very excited to see how well hip-hop had been represented. I looked forward to a great show. Now that the closing credits have rolled, I feel the need to vent my frustrations. The Junos didn’t live up to their incredible potential.…
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Battle Scars
Remember what my skateboard looked like two weeks ago when I first bought it? Here it is after some March Break skating. It’s normal for your skateboard to get a bit scratched and banged up after only a few rides. They are built to take some major punishment. You can see that I’ve scraped some…
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My Logo is Everywhere
My logo now adorns the skate park in glorious colour. It is also there is stunning red. And in cool black! I made this stencil out of cereal box card. I love the way it looks against the blue sky. I made a few more improvements to the park as well. I really hated going…
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10 Effective Ways to Get Around Writer’s Block (Guest Post)
Sometimes, it’s hard to be a writer. You get the best and worst of both the “artsy” and “practical” worlds. You use the building blocks of language to communicate with other people, often about very specific thoughts, ideas, emotions, plans, instructions, and many other things. You also use language to create art, which is a…
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It Takes 5 Years To Become a Teacher
Image by Thomas Hawk via Flickr As I started my fifth year of teaching, I felt a confidence I had never felt before. Something just clicked and I realized that I finally knew what I was doing. Up until that point, it felt like I had been treading water. I went in to the classroom…