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Wake – A Great Read!
Wake by Robert J. Sawyer Caitlin Decter is a bright 15 year old girl. She navigates the web with ease despite being born blind. She has a braille interface for her computer but manages to remember the order of links she clicks on to quickly traverse the pages she wants to access. One day, she…
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Quitting Teaching Super Sale
I have been collecting teaching resources for the past 15 years. I have bins and bins of resources that I have grouped together by grade level. And they are ALL FOR SALE! It’s my “Going Out of Business Teaching Sale” These bins are too heavy for me to ship them, so you can pick them…
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The Scotty Guide to Being Awesome
Scotty earned the reputation of being a miracle worker when he served on the Starship Enterprise. It wasn’t merely because he was good at his job. Sure, he was a great mechanic. He knew his engine inside and out. He was well-studied and continued to update his skills. But it was how he talked to…
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White Oaks Skatepark – London, ON
I really didn’t think I’d get the chance to skateboard during the Christmas holiday break. But due to warmer than season temperatures and nice weather, I found myself at the newly redesigned White Oaks Skatepark. It’s really close to the mall of the same name and a great place to skate. The park is a…
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The First Day of School – TLAP Style!
That is the sign that is on the door to Dave Burgess’ classroom on the very first day of school. He suggests putting this sign on your door even if you are new to the school and the students haven’t heard any stories of you yet. “The sign’s message creates an interesting sense of anticipation.…
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Chasing Content – The Best of Last January
It’s time for another edition of Chasing Content, that monthly feature that has us looking back at what was happening here last year at this time. So, jump on the train and lets travel back to last January. Read all of the posts from January 2014 or just these highlights . . . Create Visual…
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My Goals for 2015
I don’t like New Year’s Resolutions. Never have. If there is something I want to change about myself, I do it, I don’t need to wait till the start of the year to declare a resolution. That is why for the past few years I have get some personal goals for myself. The only problem…
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How I Did With My Goals for 2014
I set goals for myself at the start of the year. I had the best intentions when I set them. I was determined to track my progress on a calendar as well. Unfortunately, I didn’t follow through with the tracking and I haven’t looked back at the list since I wrote it. I really should…
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Tomorrow Comes
Tomorrow Comes by Donna Mebane In the afterward to this novel, Donna Mebane writes, I’m not a theologian or a psychologist or a philosopher. I’m not even a writer. I’m just a mom who loves my kids and assumed, like every mom does, that they’d be a part of my life for all my life.…
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Christmas Haul 2014
Here are the highlights of the Christmas gifts I received this year. Smallville Season 11: Chaos My brother is a traditional comic book fan. He prefers single issues as opposed the collected editions I enjoy. So, he got me the first six issues of this comic. I just did some research on it. I enjoyed watching…