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Comic Strip Newsletters
I went to a workshop last week and a fellow teacher told me that she does her newsletters in a comic strip format. I thought it was a great idea for several reasons. It’s Visual! Large blocks of text often get ignored in this fast paced world. A comic strip is something that can be…
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December 10th – A Farewell Postcard
For the past three years, I’ve made a mixtape every December 10th. This, however, is the final edition of that series. It’s time to move on. So I present you with December 10th: A Farewell Postcard. I hope you enjoy the tunes. And to Witgirl, wherever you are, I hope you have a Happy Birthday…
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Missed It By "That Much"
“Missed it by that much” is quite possibly my favourite catch-phrase of all-time. I’m not good at doing impressions but I think I do a pretty handy Maxwell Smart. And it’s only fitting that I do it today. I feel like I really did miss the mark by only a few centimeters. After winning three…
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Last Chance to Vote
It’s the championship round. Voting closes in about 3 hours (Midnight EST) Please like this Facebook status, and this one to vote for me. Please RT this on Twitter, and this one too. Thanks for voting for me. I really appreciate it. I never expected to win three straight weeks. It’s been great. Please help me…
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Dumfries Conservation Area Trail Run
It’s time for another photographic tour. This time, I’m running the trails at Dumfries Conservation Area in Cambridge, Ontario. This sculpture has an interesting story behind it. It is told in a plaque at the base of it. “For approximately one hundred and twenty years, there grew a magnificent fifty foot red oak tree in…
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Championship Round (Please Vote)
It is the last week of the Social Playlist Challenge. I hope you’ve been able to listen to the weekly mixtapes I made throughout November. In fact, I just couldn’t stop making them. I actually made a bonus mix that I will be posting up here next week. So stay tuned! In the meantime, please…
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Teaching Tip – History
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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Speechless (Let’s Take Action to Make Things Better)
Sometimes we don’t stop to think about how much power our words have. It’s easy to blurt something out that you really have no right to share, something that can hurt someone else, something that is probably better left unsaid. Speechless is a novel by Hannah Harrington that explores this issue. The main character, Chelsea,…
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Chasing Content – The Best of Last December
It’s the first of the month. Time for another edition of Chasing Content, that blog feature where we look back at what was happening last year at this time. You can read all of the posts from last December. . . or just these favourites. . . Personification in Rap Music – Hip-hop has the power…
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(All I Really Want) A Mixtape for Chirstmas
All I Really Want is A Mixtape for Christmas This is the fourth and final mix for The Social Playlist Challenge by My Music Cloud. It’s been a lot of fun putting together a mixtape every week this month. This week’s challenge was to put together a playlist of songs that could be played at…