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Script Frenzy: The Midway Point
Tomorrow marks the halfway point for this year’s Script Frenzy challenge. With proper formatting, one page of script equates to roughly one minute of screen time. A theatrical release is typically 100 minutes long so the challenge is to write 100 pages in the month of April. I have been keeping you updated as to…
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9 Tips for a Greener, Eco-Friendly Classroom (Guest Post)
Image via Wikipedia Having an environmentally-friendly classroom will not only help your school save money on electricity costs, it will also help your students adopt a greener lifestyle. By educating young children or even teenagers on the importance of living “green,” they will hopefully pass on these lifelong skills to someone else as they grow…
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Know Your History: Women of the 1970s
Welcome to this special edition of Know Your History. Tuesday March 8th marked the 100th celebration of International Women’s Day. It’s a global day where we can recognize and celebrate the achievements of women, past, present, and future, It started back in 1911 and here we are 2011, one hundred years later. That is why…
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Hip-Hop in Black and White
I was approached by to write an article for Word is Bond over a month ago. The staff over there thought I would be a good choice to write about race relations in hip-hop as a guest contributor. We thought it would be a good idea to contrast the large white audience hip-hop has to…
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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.…