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Comic Newsletter # 1
Classroom newsletters are often boring pieces of paper that get lost in the slew of notices that are sent home. That is why I like to design comic-strip newsletters. They get read and can inspire out students to create their own comics. Here is the one I am sending home this week. Or view it…
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What I’m Thankful For
#107690658 / gettyimages.com Thanksgiving is the best time of the year to pause, reflect on your life, and take stock. If you think about it, I am sure you have a lot to by thankful for. It might not always feel like it. Things might not be perfect, but we are all blessed in…
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Access: DJ Z of DJ Booth
DJ Z has a really interesting history, from being a campus radio DJ, to working in commercial radio, to helping build DJ Booth into one of the premiere music spaces on the Internet. We caught up with him for one of our special Access segments on 91.5 WPRK in Winterpark, Florida. And through the wonders…
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Is the new Spider-Man truly Superior?
The Superior Spider-Man Volume 1 In the final issue of The Amazing Spider-Man, Doctor Octopus cheats death by body-swapping with Peter Parker. It looks like all is lost but Peter manages to get inside of Doc Ock’s brain and convinces him to continue on as a super-hero instead of a villain. In this first graphic…
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Save Fred! Team-Building Activity
Here is a fun team-building activity for the classroom that I found on Pinterest. It’s based around a story of a worm who can’t swim. His boat capsizes and his life jacket gets trapped under the boat. Luckily for him, however, he is safe on the top of it. And it is up to us…
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Life Hacks – Great Ideas for Organizing Stuff
Here are some great Life Hacks, which is just a clever way to say to say that you can come up with brilliant uses for things outside of their original intention. For example, why not use a cereal container as a trash can for the car? I love this idea and have been using it…
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Chasing Content – October 2013
Welcome to Club Awesome! What better name is there for what I do online? Seriously! I hope you are following me on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and Tumblr. Lots of great things happening on each of these platforms. This is a “Best Of’ post from last year at this time for this particular blog. You…
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Reading Salad: A Hands-On Reading Demonstration
This is an amazing reading lesson that helps our students learn to think while they are reading. It makes the entire process visual as well. To teach this lesson, you will need three bowls. Have a large empty salad bowl and label it “Real Reading Salad,” and then two smaller bowls labelled “Thinking” and “Text.”…
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Bullseye: Greatest Hits
Bullseye: Greatest Hits This is a one-off story that attempts to tell the origin of one of the most dangerous villains in comics. This graphic novel collects the entire run of the five issues mini-series. First off, the title is a bit of a misnomer. This wasn’t a greatest hits compilation. It didn’t retell any…
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The Hulk is Indestructible
Indestructible Hulk: Volume 1 – Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Bruce Banner has been fighting the monster within ever since the Gamma Bomb turned him into the Incredible Hulk. The meek scientist has been looking for a cure for years. He hates the damage that The Hulk causes every single time he is unleashed. Banner realizes that…