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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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The Book Whisperer – Get Your Students Reading!
The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Read in Every Child by Donalyn Miller is an amazing book. She writes . . . The only groups served by current trends to produce endless programs for teaching reading are the publishing companies who make billions of dollars from their programs and tests. I’ve know that for a…
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Silent Cacophony Turns 5!
In March of 2007 I started this blog with a very specific goal. I wanted to become a published author and thought it would be a great idea to establish a presence online. So I started this blog with the goal and desire to become a published author within five years. Well, tomorrow, this little blog…
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Women in Hip-Hop Mixset 1
Every year on DOPEfm we celebrate International Women’s Day by dedicating all seven hours of our overnight radio show to the Women in Hip-Hop. This year we had an excellent show featuring artist interviews, a roundtable discussion, a Know Your History segment on the first lady of Canadian Hip-Hop, Michie Mee, and some great mixsets…
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DOPEfm’s International Women’s Day Special
Welcome to a very special edition of DOPEfm. This is our second annual International Women’s Day Spotlight where we focus all seven hours of our programming to the Women in Hip-Hop. We have a lot of great content for you tonight including a roundtable discussion with three female MCs and a female hip-hop promoter. Here…
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OK Go (and) Show This Video to Your Class
OK Go are just as much visual artists as they are musical artists. Their videos are absolutely amazing. I was pleasantly surprised to see that they have created this educational video about the primary colours. It’s perfect to share with your class when introducing this concept and the colour wheel. And then you could show…
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T-shirts: The Last Great Vestige for Art
I found all of these T-shirts on Tumblr. I even ordered of one of them as a present. Very cool! Flash Drive – what a nice visual pun. Get it? Paper clips look so sad (usually) TGIF! Disc jockeys break records. That’s how it should be! Mown. What a bad pun. Moan! So true! The…
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A Gift Every 56 Days
Image via Wikipedia Every 56 days, I take some time out of my busy schedule to do something very important, something that only about 3.5% of us do. I give blood. I don’t have to go out of my way to do so either. Canadian Blood Services has many permanent clinics in cities all over…
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DOPEfm’s International Women’s Day Spectacular TONIGHT
Tune in live TONIGHT starting at 12:00 midnight to hear DOPEfm’s annual International Women’s Day Tribute show. We dedicate all 7 hours of our programming to the Women in Hip-Hop. This year’s show is even bigger and better than last years. You will hear some great mixsets from myself and from Gamma Krush where every…
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Join WoMEn on the Radio
Today is International Women’s Day! To celebrate the talent and achievements of women in hip-hop music and culture, DOPEfm will be dedicating the entire overnight to the Women in Hip-Hop. This is our second year of doing so and things are only getting bigger and better. Please tune in live on Saturday night starting at 12:00…
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40 Teaching Blunders (Or Opportunities)
Image via Wikipedia The Ottawa Citizen ran a story entitled Another 40 Business Bloopers and the teacher in me saw immediate parallels to the classroom. Here are a few of my favourites from the article. 4. Not empowering subordinates to challenge and correct you. Teachers make mistakes. There is nothing to be ashamed of if…