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Exams, Grades, and Marks Miss the Point
This spoken word artist captures what is wrong with education today. Suli Breaks really makes some great points in that piece. . I especially like what he has to say about timelines. We have artificial deadlines in school and some students truly need more time to complete a task. I shared a video a few weeks back…
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Running The Devil’s Creek Trail
Devil’s Creek is a short trail in Cambridge, Ontario. The trail head starts right beside St. Augustine’s Catholic School. and runs for 1.6 kilometers. I took the boardwalk to the right and followed the trail all the way to the end. I then turned around and went the other way at this fork. That trail…
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Superhero GPOY
I love how creative some bloggers can be. Let’s take a few moments to look at some of the pieces I’ve come across on Tumblr. Originally posted by Blogman I love this GPOY (Gratuitous Picture Of Yourself) that Superman took. I mean, how else could this shot have been taken? It looks like Superman started something…
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Novels Adapted to Comics
The Talisman – Volume 1: The Road of Trials by Stephen King and Peter Straub Is this a new trend? I know that they have turned quite a few books into movies but turning prose novels into graphic novels is new, right? I thought I’d give this one a try as I am a huge…
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Musical Futures – Free Teaching Resources
Musical Futures: An Approach to Teaching and Learning I went to a training workshop about the Musical Futures program and was completely blown away. This is a program that can truly engage reluctant learners in the music classroom. We were thrown right into the thick of things for this workshop. We were divided into small…
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Who Will Be the New Doctor?
It was announced this past weekend that Matt Smith will be stepping down from his role of The Doctor on the hit science fiction television series. According to Doctor Who lore, there are only 13 different incarnations of The Doctor. There will come a time when the writers will have a hard time explaining a…
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Chasing Content – June 2012
Blog posts are like bubbles that look cool for a moment but can quickly disappear. It’s time to go chase the bubbles and have some fun looking at the content that has gone flying by. We do this at the start of every month in a feature called “Chasing Content.” Read all of the posts…
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Daredevil Ends with Shadowland
Daredevil is my all-time favourite superhero. The work Frank Miller did in the first run of the comic book series completely revolutionized the entire medium of comics. The second run of the comic series began in 1998 and the title continued to soar. I never thought it would come to an end but it has…
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Teaching Tip – Guest Posts
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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The TARDIS Console Room Mega Set
What’s better than Doctor Who and Lego? How about combining them both together to get a model kit of the TARDIS complete with four mini-figures including the Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond, Rory Williams, and River Song. Here is the completed model. It looks so cool! I like the alien landscape and the fact that the…