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Welcome to the sounding board for Chase March. Here you will find my various articles about a variety of topics (DJ Events and news, book reviews, skatepark tours, teaching-related articles and resources, and much more)
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Black Walnut Trail – Short Hills Provincial Park
Short Hills Provincial Park is the largest park in the Niagara Region. It’s part of an environmentally significant area known as the Fonthill Kame Moraine. A kame is an irregular hill of sand, gravel and silt which accumulates in a depression on a retreating glacier, and is then deposited on the land surface as the…
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200,000 Pageviews!
Last year about this time, my blog reached 100,000 pageviews. I was proud of this milestone even though it took me four years to reach it. Now, less than one year later, I’ve doubled that number. Silent Cacophony has just reached 200,000 pageviews. Here are my stats for the week. I know I don’t have a…
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Doors Open London 2012
Doors Open London is a great event and one of the best weekends of the entire year. This past weekend, there were over a hundred different tourist attractions to visit all over the city and the surrounding counties. The best part is that the event is absolutely free. I got out to twelve different sites…
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How to Use Blogging in Your Teaching
Blogging has become an important way for people to connect. Businesses use it to reach customers. Non-profits use it to raise awareness of their brand. Teachers can even use it to connect with students and to enhance learning. There are a number of ways that teachers can use blogging in their lessons — both in…
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Chasing Content – October 2011
It’s time for another edition of Chasing Content! You know what to do. Click the links, dig through the archives, and remember all the cool things that went down right here last year at this time. Read all of the posts from last October. . . or just these Tackling NaNoWriMo – Am I Crazy…
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Undervalued, Unappreciated, and Misunderstood
via http://www.simplycyfair.com/great-gift-ideas-for-teachers.aspx I am very dedicated to what I do. I put so much of myself into my job. I don’t clock in or clock out. I am always a teacher. And I don’t complain about it. My family, friends, and even neighbours know how much work and effort I put into my job. It…
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Know Your History 29 – Hip-Hop United for a Cause (Part 2)
On January 12th, 2010 Haiti was hit with a devastating earthquake. The natural disaster left the already poor and impoverished country in an even more dire state. One month later, wheels were set in motion to mobilize some of Canada’s most popular musicians to help record a benefit track for the cause. As such, Young…
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Teaching Tip – Differentiated Instruction
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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Life Unexpected (Great Television)
I always borrow DVDs from the library and I’d seen this one on the shelf several times. I had no idea what the show was about, simply because of the way the library had packaged the DVD set, but something about it called to me. I just didn’t have the time to watch it until…
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Angus McKenzie Trail (St. Thomas, Ontario)
I collect trail runs. I’m always looking for a nice place to go for a jog. Sometimes I have no idea what the trial is going to be like, how long it is, or where exactly it leads. Today, I laced up my shoes, strapped my camera to my wrist, and decided to explore this…