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Teaching Tip Tuesday – Be Flexible
Teachers need to be prepared. I can’t emphasize this enough. I make sure that I draw up very detailed year plans and day plans. I am very well organized in my classroom. Unfortunately all the planning and organizing can sometimes not be enough. Teachers need to be flexible. There will always be things that interfere with our…
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I Thought It Wasn’t For Me
It’s no secret that I don’t like social networking sites. I’ve written about this topic several times here on Silent Cacophony. That’s why you will probably be surprised that I have been won over by one of them. That’s right, I am on Twitter and enjoying it. At first I didn’t get it and I…
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It Was Bad For Me So It Will Always Be That
Okay. Let me vent for a moment here. You may have had a teacher in the past that you didn’t see eye to eye with. You may have constantly butted heads with this person and it ruined your perception of school. Or perhaps you just weren’t a good student. You never really enjoyed school and…
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Forest Instead of Condos
There are two small forest areas in my neighbourhood. They aren’t much to look at. But I often walk through them. It’s nice having a piece of nature within walking distance of my place. I think these green spaces are underappreciated in a large city such as mine. Too many people would drive by this…
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Teaching Tip Tuesday – Dollars Stores: Blessing or Not?
Here is one of the best teaching tips I can share with you – Use what you have! I know that through my teaching career there have been many times when I have needed some items for a lesson that I didn’t have readily available. Sometimes these things were simple items for a science experiment…
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Rap Group Got Me Reading a Classic
I consider myself to be an avid reader. You can always find a book or two on the nightstand beside my bed. I utilize the library frequently and read everything from fiction to non-fiction to comic books to young adult novels to magazines and newspapers. I’m an English major and I have read a lot…
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What I’m Feeling Now
These are the best rappers making noise right now, in my humble opinion. In no particular order here they are MURS CLASSIFIED BLUE SCHOLARS SWEATSHOP UNION DEF III and FACTOR ft. MOKA ONLY This EP is amazing. Heavy, heavy rotation. Nuff said. If you don’t know about these artists run out and pick up their…
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Making Beats Again – Should It Be So Hard?
I want to get back into music production. There was a time in my life when my main focus was on producing and writing music. Back then I used this Akai Sampling Keyboard and I hooked it up to an Atari 1040 ST by way of MIDI cables and I used a program called Cubase…
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Bottled Water Debate
“I don’t see why people have to buy bottled water. The cost of it is huge.” “It’s no cheaper than buying a bottle of pop or juice.” “I know that. But the fact that we have inexpensive, perfectly good drinking water that comes from the tap makes it ridiculous that we consume bottled water as…
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Teaching Tip Tuesdays – Seating Plan
I want to keep this edition of Teaching Tip Tuesday fairly short. I think teachers should be helping each other by sharing what works with them and their classrooms. I hope you have found my past columns here helpful. Please email me or leave a comment if you have any questions or thoughts, or if…